If you are sentenced to death should you have the right to choose the way you should die?

Answer 1

How quick are people here to jump blindly to all kinds of conclusions about this. Firstly, most people are forgetting that your question as us if WE were sentenced to death....perhaps some people here should try to get their head round that bit of the concept first before assuming that anyone should be sentenced to death.

There have been a lot of miscarriages of justice - in the UK think of people who have been released years after being sentenced because they were wrongly imprisoned in the first place. You can't bring people back from the dead so there's a moral and ethical question people ought to ask themselves about whether the death penalty - is something that is right in the first place. Thankfully in the UK we abolished it but there are plenty of other countries that still exercise this sentencing option.

When is it right to sentence someone to death, and when is it not?

Of course this question has probably been prompted by the news that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. Even in the case of such a tyrant he did not act alone - he had people around him who supported him in his actions. Yes some will have done it out of fear, but for everyone of those there will have been someone who did it with the same intent as Saddam. Whilst I abhor his actions is it right that he carries this alone?

Of course, in an instance like this people's gut reactions will think I'm a bleeding heart liberal. But now imagine you're in a train carriage with two other people. One gets up and brutally stabbing the other before jumping off the still moving train. You're found bent over the body with blood on your hands. The CCTV wasn't working and all the evidence points at you. Do you still believe in the death penalty?

There've been cases where people have been sentenced to death despite having the mental age of a child and not knowing the difference between right and wrong - they're particularly tragic. And then there are the options themselves as to the way you die. Lethal injection etc. They say that some methods are quicker than others. The quickest, I understand, is meant to take almost immediate effect and yet in some US States where they offer this the doctor still does not declare the patient dead for 30 minutes, suggesting that it is not as quick as they claim. If it has to be then surely it should be by the quickest method possible. As if someone is to die a slow death then are we not committing an act of torture leading to death? Don't we become as bad as the person who's committed the crime?

Answer 2

basic and easily the prisoner's ideal is already curtained he or she can't set words together with his or her own dying sentence. as quickly as you're convicted all your rights are out of the window. So while the States enable you to comprehend to take a seat down interior the corner you do it in any different case a distinctive effects would ensue or get up. The States own the guy already. So it a lesson that in case you could no longer do the time do no longer do the crime. might throwning somebody off the plane is extra humane than deadly injection? What do you think of? The States has 3 dying sentences to impose, the electrical powered chair, gas chamber, and the deadly injection. Even the prisoner can't impose of identifying on considered one of them. The State has the only rights of putting it. If as an occasion in Connecticut, it somewhat is via electric chair, the prisoner can't say 'choose i'm terrified of electric' are you kidding me? he or she can't chosen which ones, what's those a recreation or nutrition order in a cafe? notwithstanding the State impose he or she would be in a position to truly get it. it somewhat is distinctive in China, and the U. S.. you could no longer learn an orange to a grape fruit are you able to? In China the tactic of execution is the bullet interior the top. After that they bill the on the spot family individuals of the value of the bullet to the government. that they'd desire to pay that one bullet that killed their brother or father for the crime. i'm for the dying penalty basically for the checklist. The choose isn't the only identifying for the dying to be impose it somewhat is the State no longer the choose. If the State of latest Orleans has putting as an occasion then who's the prefer to impose deadly injection, the choose has no authority or ability to alter the dying penalty he's there to enforce it no longer substitute it.

Answer 3

I don't think in any nation barbaric and primitive enough to have a death penalty has enough freedom of choice to allow people to chose the manner of their own death.

If I did have to chose the manner of my own execution I would chose to be killed in an arena in front of a crowd by a gladiator style executioner with a hatchet. I think any sort of painless sterile execution is degrading to the sanctity of life and that if I was to die I would like to go out in an entertaining and vaguely natural manner.

Answer 4

No I don't think you should.

Do we that are not on death row get to choose how we die?

Answer 5

probably you can request as long as you'l be sentenced to death...but in my country we do sentenced to death through injecting you that make you sleep first and then the killing chemicals...so there's no pains when you die, you just like you fall asleep and never wakes up...

Answer 6

Suppose you should really. In a civillised country it's not like they would let you die an agonising death anyway.

Answer 7

No. The sentence carried out should be as abhorrent to the perpetrator as the crime was to the victims and their families.
Why give him(I presume you mean Saddam) the choice he didn't give his victims

Answer 8

No way, if you did something bad enough to be condemned to death, then in my opinion you have no right to choose.

Answer 9

Absolutely!
I would choose to die of old age.

Answer 10

I believe if you are condemned to die then it should be as swift & humanely as possible without too much emphasis on how.no razz ma tazz