d a band around the head, and then jolts of 4-8 amperes at voltage between 500 and 2000 volts are applied at half a minute at a time. The newest forms of execution are Lethal Injection where a lethal poison is injected into the prisoners arm or the Gas Chamber where the prisoner is placed in a room with Sodium Cyanide crystals and left to die. All of these procedures are done fast, and with the least amount of pain possible, if any at all. For anyone to say that these methods are not humane would be unrealistic. The convicts whom have been sentenced to walk the green mile have really gotten off easy in my eyes. Many of them have committed cruel, torturous acts on innocent human beings. Why do they deserve to die in a peaceful, humane way? They do not, but because under our constitution no one shall under go cruel and unusual punishment, though that is what they have done to others (Winter 17). Felons should feel lucky that capital punishment is so humane.By 1967, legislation efforts were under way to persuade the U.S Supreme Court that the death penalty violated cruel and unusual punishment prohibitions of the eight amendments. The court responded by staying execution by the court order pending outcome of the suits (Bedau 21). On July 1972, the Supreme Court again ruled on the death penalty and issued five opinions. One decision stated that capital punishment for the crime of murder was not cruel or unusual punishment. They also ruled that to be constitutional a procedure for imposing the death penalty must provide standards for sentencing authorities. The Supreme Court rulings indicated the court would hold the states to strict standards in imposing the death penalty (Bedau 24). In 1988, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that persons less than 16 when they committed the crime might not be sentenced to death. Currently in 14 states not including MO and as well as the federal government ban the execution of those who were younger than 18 ...
