Friday, May 4, 2007

Blog 14-Convicted killer fears his last moments

In united states, a convicted murderer called Philip Workman is once again scheduled to be put into a death sentence for the 4th time. It has been sad and fearful for almost half of his life as he stayed in prison going through all the procedures. On this coming sunday he will be placed in a cell apart from all other people with a window facing him and to be watched 24 hours a day. He will be injected with 3 different types of poisons, the first is to make him fall asleep, then the second poison will stop his lungs from breathing, then the last is to put his heart to a stop. These drugs were known to be cruel and “inhuman” because of the fact that the sufferer might not even be asleep and could feel the immense pain from the needles. From many prisoners say that the first drug put into your body would stop you from talking and even freeze your body from moving. From that it made the drug one of the most feared way of death. I think that this death procedure is really cruel to the people as instead of quick death this can almost last for half an hour of complete pain all over your body as described.
In recent studies from a not for profit organization the scientist were shocked as there were no until 2005. Six scientists have spent 3 years of study in the drug use to execute people. They have looked over all of them and most give similar conclusions. As the amount of drugs found in the bodies and could cause immense pain and so the scientist concluded the drug protocol a failure. I think that it had been stupid for the people in the past to not conduct research before using these types of drugs and with out knowing what they are putting into human bodies. It has been cruel to the people who suffered this death with out knowing the fact “it is a quick way to die” is a lie.
Through out the time and year I cannot imagine how much fear it would be to be in a prison for more than 25 years under going the death sentence and being stopped every time. I think that it has been really cruel to him and his family as the case had not been settled and the court had always given them hope but then crushing it by the death sentence every time. As he said he would not want his families to visit him and he wants to end this quickly. It might be the best for him to let him choose to end this quickly instead undergoing the feeling of hope and hope destroyed again over and over.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/02/lethal.injection/index.html

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