Saturday, April 24, 2010

Method of Lethal injection


This method of execution is done by putting a criminal to sleep with a fatal dose of drugs, this drug is usually causes immediate death. The main purpose of this method is for Capital Punishment but in a more humane sense it would be considered as euthanasia or suicide. This method kills the prisoner by first putting him/her to sleep, then stop the persons breathing, then stopping the heart of the persons causing instant death. Lethal injection, which is considered more humane than hanging, electrocution, firing squad, and gas, has become the most common form of execution in the United States. In the Year of 2005, every American execution was conducted by Lethal injection.



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