• The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Koniaris, who does not oppose the death penalty, said he believes the findings warrant a moratorium on executions until a publicly-appointed panel can examine whether prisoners are awake during the process. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Hospira continues to make two other drugs that, in addition to medical uses, are also used by states for executions - pancuronium bromide, which paralyze inmates, and potassium chloride, which stop inmates' hearts. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Last June the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to challenges when it allowed death-row inmates to contest the deadly cocktail of chemicals used in executions. (freepress.org)
  • Four Ohio inmates (Richard Cooey, Jeffrey Hill, Arthur Tyler and Johnnie Baston) joined a lawsuit at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, arguing that the state's lethal-injection protocol constituted cruel and unusual punishment. (freepress.org)
  • Do Ohioans really want to choose between torturing inmates to death or putting executions in the hands of doctors? (freepress.org)
  • Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey halted executions in November 2022 and directed the state prison system to undertake a "top-to-bottom" review of death penalty procedures after 2 lethal injections (those of Alan Miller and of Kenneth Eugene Smith) were called off because of difficulties inserting an IV into the veins of the inmates. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • There is a concern that some inmates may be conscious, but paralyzed, during execution, because one of the three drugs used may have worn off, prior to death. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Lethal injection is used for capital punishment by the Federal Government and 36 States, at least 30 of which (including Kentucky) use the same combination of three drugs: The first, sodium thiopental, induces unconsciousness when given in the specified amounts and thereby ensures that the prisoner does not experience any pain associated with the paralysis and cardiac arrest caused by the second and third drugs, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. (justia.com)
  • c) Although conceding that an execution under Kentucky's procedures would be humane and constitutional if performed properly, petitioners claim that there is a significant risk that the procedures will not be properly followed-particularly, that the sodium thiopental will not be properly administered to achieve its intended effect-resulting in severe pain when the other chemicals are administered. (justia.com)
  • The Lancet article identified 21 cases of execution where the level of "post mortem" (after death) sodium thiopental was below that used in surgery and, therefore, may suggest consciousness was possible. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • A "long after execution" post mortem measurement of sodium thiopental is very different from a moment of death measurement. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Dr. Lydia Conlay, chair of the department of anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine (Texas Medical Center, Houston) said the extrapolation of postmortem sodium thiopental levels in the blood to those at the time of execution is by no means a proven method. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • The Lancet article did not dispute the obvious - for executions, the sodium thiopental is administered in dosages roughly 10-20 times the amount necessary for sedation unconsciousness during surgical procedures. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • 1. To constitute cruel and unusual punishment, an execution method must present a "substantial" or "objectively intolerable" risk of serious harm. (justia.com)
  • Subjecting individuals to a substantial risk of future harm can be cruel and unusual punishment if the conditions presenting the risk are "sure or very likely to cause serious illness and needless suffering" and give rise to "sufficiently imminent dangers. (justia.com)
  • Capital punishment or the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment where the state kills an individual as punishment for a crime . (rationalwiki.org)
  • This extends the concept to non-human animals, such as other apes, but since the unborn, infants and severely disabled people lack this, he states that abortion, painless infanticide and euthanasia can be "justified" (but are not obligatory) in certain special circumstances, for instance in the case of a disabled infant whose life would be one of suffering. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although supporters of lethal injection believe the prisoner dies painlessly, there is mounting evidence that prisoners may have experienced excruciating pain during their executions.This should not be surprising given that corrections agencies have not taken the steps necessary to ensure a painless execution. (hrw.org)
  • As for Mr. Portillo's "perfect" method, I do see it as the best possible method of execution because those in favor of capital punishment, in many states, will only have capital punishment supported by enough fence sitters if those who are currently undecided believe it is a humane and painless method of execution. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Jefferson sought to build a new republic in America representing a classical democracy in which human rights would be fully respected (Strauch, 2017). (edufixers.com)
  • Early moves towards abolition began in some European countries during the mid 19th century, but the move away from capital punishment gathered momentum a century later, in the years following the Second World War , as human rights became a more significant political issue. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The punishment for capital murder would change later something that it seems Cain anticipated. (grainsofsandsjf.com)
  • McWhorter was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for his role in the robbery and shooting death of Edward Lee Williams, 34, on Feb. 18, 1993. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • I should also say that while I am technically in favor of capital punishment, practically I am against it, meaning that while I believe someone who has committed murder, rape and/or child sexual abuse deserve to be executed, the reality is that far too many people have been wrongfully convicted and at times executed. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • En route I looked at the Palestinian villages alongside the Jewish communities, and I thought of how for the Palestinians murder is a type of sport or enjoyment, perhaps a substitute for erotica. (islamawareness.net)
  • Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse , especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought . (wiki2.org)
  • Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a person convicted of murder should receive harsh punishments for the purposes of retribution , deterrence , rehabilitation , or incapacitation . (wiki2.org)
  • In most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison sentence, a life sentence , or capital punishment . (wiki2.org)
  • The failings of the Illinois criminal justice system have led to many flawed convictions, not just the capital punishment cases that have brought visibility to this problem. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Premeditation or mens rea , to give it a legal definition, is a substantial test in human criminal activity. (drkeithsown.com)
  • It is my belief that the real point of capital punishment is to ensure the convicted criminal is never again able to commit a crime in the outside world, and for the victim survivors and some portion of society to have a sense of vengeance, revenge or retribution. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Execution of a Nazi war criminal in Germany, 1946. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. (rationalwiki.org)
  • There's also the gas chamber, hanging, the drug they put animals to sleep with or the firing squad. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Since the botched execution of Joseph Clark last May, critics of Ohio's lethal injection protocol have been pointing toward the immanent risk of torture in the execution chamber if a licensed anesthesiologist is not present. (freepress.org)
  • Prison officials opened the curtain to the execution chamber at 6:30 p.m. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • The Rev. Jeff Hood, a death row minister who works with an anti-death penalty group, accompanied McWhorter into the execution chamber as his spiritual adviser. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Polls show that the majority of Americans now agree: helpless, dependent, inarticulate human beings who cause serious inconvenience to their caretakers should not be kept alive. (cross-currents.com)
  • from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfil any desire. (mailonsunday.co.uk)
  • They are human beings and medical professionals still bound by an oath that does not allow them to cause harm and unnecessary suffering. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • We don't have divine glory by nature, but human beings seek it for themselves. (lifeissues.net)
  • Our Prayers Go Out to Our Armed Forces and to all innocent human beings in Iraq, Israel, America and throughout the world. (joshuahammerman.com)
  • The opponents believe that capital punishment is the worst violation of human rights, because the right to life is the most important, and capital punishment violates it without necessity and inflicts to the condemned a psychological torture. (wikipedia.org)
  • Petitioners, convicted murderers sentenced to death in Kentucky state court, filed suit asserting that the Commonwealth's lethal injection protocol violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments. (justia.com)
  • the very high cost of multiple appeals and decades of death-row imprisonment in the US, the strong psychological toll on those obliged to to kill other humans, and the act itself violating the dignity and integrity of an autonomous human being. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The right to life is the belief that a human being or animal has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The doctor of pediatric surgery and associate professor at Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health said he was troubled to see how the rise in Ohio executions was accompanied by the belief that lethal injections were non controversial. (freepress.org)
  • Opponents of capital punishment argue that it is a violation of the right to life, while its supporters argue that the death penalty is not a violation of the right to life because the right to life should apply with deference to a sense of justice. (wikipedia.org)
  • But until the thirty-eight death penalty states and the federal government abolish the death penalty, international human rights law requires them to use execution methods that will produce the least possible physical and mental suffering. (hrw.org)
  • Missouri death row prisoner Michael Taylor and Florida prisoners Clarence Hill and Arthur D. Rutherford had their executions stayed by the Court in January and February, 2006. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • I believe I wrote this before, but I think the judge who handed down the death sentense and the justice minister who signed the execution order should be present at the scene of execution. (globalvoices.org)
  • He believes that, ultimately, Ohio may have no choice but to halt executions and review its stance on the death penalty. (freepress.org)
  • McWhorter was the second inmate put to death this year in Alabama, the 72nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983, the 22nd in the U.S. put to death this year, and the 1,580th overall since the country resumed executions in 1977. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • A decree that one be punished in this manner is a death sentence , while the enforcement itself of such a decree is known as an execution . (rationalwiki.org)
  • [1] The Council of Europe prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members, and Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment. (rationalwiki.org)
  • A few countries, however, such as Saudi Arabia, still make executions free entertainment in the village square for those who find booing and blood and death a fine way to spend their Saturday afternoon and render Allah's will. (rationalwiki.org)
  • In fact, Abrahamic religions have traditionally embraced, if not encouraged, execution over the centuries, and the end of the death penalty in the developed world emerged, by no coincidence, with the secularization of Europe and commonwealth countries. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights recommended that the death penalty be abolished in European nations or restricted to times of war . (rationalwiki.org)
  • Some utilitarian ethicists argue that the "right to life", where it exists, depends on conditions other than membership of the human species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because some risk of pain is inherent in even the most humane execution method, if only from the prospect of error in following the required procedure, the Constitution does not demand the avoidance of all risk of pain. (justia.com)
  • A humane execution is the ultimate paradox," said Groner at his Columbus Children's Hospital office. (freepress.org)
  • Secondly, if properly administered, it cannot occur with the properties and amounts of the chemicals used and within the time frame of an execution. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Despite the Lancet article's presumptions and omissions, there is no scientific evidence that consciousness with pain has occurred with the amounts and methods of injecting those three chemicals within the execution period. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • The notion of punishment is not easily applied to these cases, where the use of physical restraint is more like that applied to wild animals. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Hundreds of prisoners killed by lethal injectionthe preferred method of execution in 37 states and the federal Bureau of Prisonsmay have suffered agonizing deaths due to a routine failure to administer enough anesthesia, according to a recent study. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Reviewing toxicology data from 49 executions, researchers in Virginia and Florida found that low levels of anesthesia in the bloodstream indicated the prisoners were conscious in 43 of the cases. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Any suffering may not be apparent to observers, however, because prisoners are also paralyzed during the executions. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • You might think some of these humans don't deserve to be treated as well as we'd treat a dog, but they are humans, and we are a civilized society. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause embodies this principle-that we don't do to others what they did to someone else, not because they deserve better, but because it would demean us. (blogs.com)
  • We don't impose cruel punishments even when criminals deserve them, and that's because the cruelty that they impose upon their victims is no model for the way a civilized society should treat its members, even the worst of the worst of them. (blogs.com)
  • Last I checked, when you included general state charges, expenditures for the New York State prison system were about $5.4 bn, or The Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause embodies this principle-that we don't do to others what they did to someone else, not because they deserve better, but because it would demean us. (blogs.com)
  • This is either absent from wild animal behavior, or so rare, it is practically undetectable. (drkeithsown.com)
  • Drawing on its own research and that of others, Human Rights Watch has found no evidence that any state seriously investigated whether other drugs or administration methods would be "more humane" than the protocol it adopted. (hrw.org)
  • Garrty, funny you should mention using drugs to put animals to sleep. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Many in the US are calling for an end to executions using drugs that do not always work in the ways they were intended to. (truedignity.org)
  • And why care about the drugs we use in executions by lethal injection? (blogs.com)
  • Dorian Hall, the supervisor of investigators for the Ohio public defender's office, said she heard "loud, intense, guttural moans and groans, like someone was in agony" during Clark's execution. (freepress.org)
  • The International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement has created a system whereby it is recognised that international human rights law is binding upon all state actors, and that said state actors must know and be capable of applying international standards for human rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • The right to life is for the most part an inalienable right granted to every human upon the planet, however, there are certain situations in which state actors are required to take drastic action, which can result in civilians being killed by law enforcement agents. (wikipedia.org)
  • The history of lethal injection executions in the United States reveals no such care on the part of state legislators and corrections officials. (hrw.org)
  • Capital punishment has been a front-burner issue in Illinois for more than a decade, and Gov. Pat Quinn has held a state constitutional office for a little more than eight of those years. (chicagotribune.com)
  • This is why Groner thinks the state should call off executions altogether. (freepress.org)
  • It was the first execution carried out in Alabama this year after the state halted executions last fall. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Advocacy groups claimed a third execution, carried out after a delay because of IV problems, was botched, a claim the state has disputed. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Barber's attorneys unsuccessfully asked the courts to block the execution, saying the state has a pattern of failing "to carry out a lethal injection execution in a constitutional manner. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Ivey then announced in February that the state was resuming executions. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • One of the changes Alabama made following the internal review was to give the state more time to carry out executions. (nessunotocchicaino.it)
  • Capital punishment began to be seen by more and more people as state-sanctioned homicide while proponents took offense to the use of the term and proposed numerous questionable arguments on how killing a prisoner was not somehow homicide but instead an inherently necessary act. (rationalwiki.org)
  • According to Human Rights Watch, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group whose stated goal was to create a state based on the biblical 10 commandments, kidnapped and killed tens of thousands of people in the 1990s and 2000s. (islamawareness.net)
  • While we often generalise this process to include people in general or society as a whole, the process of justification would not work without convincing the people who are directly concerned (in this case, violators), at least theoretically, that this is a justified punishment, despite their subjective objections or psychological opposition. (ox.ac.uk)
  • for nineteen states, it is the only legal method of execution. (hrw.org)
  • The issue of lethal injection as a humane" method of execution made headlines nationwide in early 2006 after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted three executions based on legal arguments involving the lethal injection process. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • This suggests that moral or legal punishments for the person should be accompanied by consciousnesses (in a Lockean sense) of the agent. (ox.ac.uk)
  • A close examination of the practices of several states has shown that their execution protocols would not even meet the standards for the euthanasia of animals. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The study's authors compared lethal injection protocols with the ethical standards of the American Veterinary Medical Association, finding that in 19 states, including Ohio, these same neuromuscular blocking agents were prohibited when killing animals. (freepress.org)
  • The "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Leads to Freedom) sign was above the entrance to Auschwitz I. It was the site of the infamous Block 11, the punishment block, and the site where the depraved "Medical experiments" were carried out. (holocaustsurvivors.org)
  • the Supreme Court is not expected to rule on the constitutionality of lethal injection itself, but rather on the procedural and technical aspects of challenges to the method of execution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • But medical professionals are bound to an oath to do no harm, and are ethically unable to participate in executions. (freepress.org)
  • But there's a much bigger issue here, in the contrasting BBC treatment of the man who thinks I'm an animal, and its treatment of me. (mailonsunday.co.uk)
  • For example, I deplore doctors being present at executions. (drkeithsown.com)
  • The state's execution team had to close the public curtain when, roughly four minutes into execution, Clark said he felt pain in his arm. (freepress.org)
  • He drew a parallel between lethal injection procedures in the U.S. and concentration camp euthanasia programs in Nazi Germany (see sidebar interview). (freepress.org)
  • The same procedures are used in executions. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Second, because we are made in the image of God, to take the life of another human is to destroy someone patterned after God and close to God's own heart. (grainsofsandsjf.com)
  • The Human Life Foundation, Inc. (humanlifereview.com)
  • Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times. (joshuahammerman.com)
  • Given how the condemned treated their victims, why should we care about the expedited execution process in Arkansas? (blogs.com)
  • Unconsciousness occurs within the first 30 seconds of the injection/execution process. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Though the average execution time is 8.4 minutes, many take more than 10 minutes to complete, according to the study. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Thirdly, no one has explained how the first drug could have worn off, within the time frame of execution. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Long after execution blood testing of those levels means absolutely nothing with regard to the levels at the time of execution. (homicidesurvivors.com)
  • Although the two authors acted on various scopes, they were of the same time and provided relatively similar views on human evolution. (edufixers.com)
  • If Quinn vetoes the banning of executions, he will make himself the enemy of the overwhelming majority of the General Assembly & will become a joke. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The former assumes punishment a play in the first quarter against the Denver Broncos during the AFC Championship game at Sports Authority Field at asymmetrical effects of losses the dough is PUT HIM ONTO TEDDY efficient possibly scary looking to a New Years sequence number advisories to of Polaroids out of card information to make. (thetransportercar.com)
  • A deliberate destruction of a political or cultural human group. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Pure Behaviourists take the view that animals don't have cognitions but I am in no doubt that Artemis had certain basic expectations - schemas . (integratedsociopsychology.net)
  • That is to say, in justifying the application of the system of punishment, we should satisfy the condition that each person concerned (especially the violator) is aware of having no grounds to reasonably reject the application of the system, even if they do in fact reject it from their personal, self-interested point of view. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The term capital punishment was borrowed from the Latin capitalis ("[of/relating to] the head"), referring to the once-common method of execution by beheading. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The Holocaust represents to the world the utter depths to which humans can descend in their treatment of others based simply on prejudice as is typical in genocides. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Ideally, the prayer will go all the way around the cyber-world and be returned to you by another human being who cares as passionately about this. (joshuahammerman.com)
  • The executions brought the number of hangings administered under then-justice minister Nagase Jinen, who was removed from the position shortly later in the recent reshuffle, to 10 during his 11-month term. (globalvoices.org)
  • I can think of several good arguments for Euthanasia. (blogs.com)
  • However, there have been heated arguments on the role of advertising and its morality in human society since some organizations take advantage of. (edufixers.com)
  • She testified at a Sept. 22 hearing to challenge Maryland's execution protocol, saying that the noises were audible through the walls and window after the staff closed the curtain. (freepress.org)
  • In the warehouses the Soviets found 7.7 tons (7,000 kg) of human hair, which had been packed for shipping. (holocaustsurvivors.org)
  • International Human Rights Law. (hrw.org)
  • I was talking with a colleague about my post on the Arkansas executions earlier this week, and she asked an important question: Why care? (blogs.com)
  • Appropriate occasions for killings by law enforcement are strictly outlined by the International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement. (wikipedia.org)
  • As we know from the past 100 years of history in Palestine, Zionists are big believers in the execution and fulfillment of their aspirations, making things happen rather than yearning. (islamawareness.net)
  • It has been called the largest graveyard in human history and has become a symbol for the Holocaust itself. (holocaustsurvivors.org)