What would happen if I were to get the death penalty but death penality is against my religion?

Question

Lets imagine somewhere down the road comes a religion where a person is not allowed to be injected with the same exact fluids that are used during the process of executing someone. Now lets say that I'm a member of this religion and I protested it because it's against my religion. Also, there aren't any other methods of execution. So I protest it because it's violating my religious rights. What would happen? Would the courts excuse me or would I go ahead with it?

Answer 1

So you have a religion that prohibits you from being injected with certain fluids, yet says it's ok to kill someone else (which would be how you got sentenced to death in the first place)?

No one is going to take that religion seriously. What if you invented a religion that says it's ok to rob, rape, and murder? Would you try that one in court as well?

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Answer 2

The Supreme Court has ruled that certain laws are constitutional despite infringing on your Constitutional (Free Exercise Clause) rights.

There was a case that went before the Supremes where children of a particular religion were opposed to immunizations. However, to be able to attend the public school where these kids would learn, they were required by the State to have certain immunizations.

The Supreme Court ruled that the State can impose certain laws that infringe on your Free Exercise rights. That there is a "public good" exception (if you will) within the Free Exercise clause. It is for the "public good" (i.e. the other students at this school) to being immunized against certain diseases. We don't want these kids who aren't immunized to catch something and then bring it to school and pass it to other children.

How this correlates to your question is that the State can impose the dealth penalty to you, despite your reilgious convictions against this fluid. And quite likely, the precedent set from the previous case I mentioned out lay the ground work for your case at hand.

Answer 3

i'm no longer of any faith, even with the undeniable fact that I do have my own beliefs, so i do no longer classification myself as an atheist. at the same time as it includes the lack of life penalty i will not help yet be wondered myself in what i trust. One fringe of me believes that 2 wrongs by no skill make a precise and the lack of life penalty does no longer quite remedy some thing. It does no longer undo even with has been done and taking a life in my opinion isn't precise. the different area of me consents that human beings who commit severe crimes and are one hundred% in charge, with out any doubt should be punished. There back the objective to the lack of life penalty may be to make the criminal struggle through like he/she did there victims, even with the undeniable fact that once there life has been taken then they struggle through now no longer. really making them stay some thing else of there lives in penal complicated among different severe offenders is extra of a punishment. The discomfort that the sufferer/s adventure does no longer end only because the criminal is lifeless. for this reason and this reason in common words, i'd say that i'm extra adverse to the lack of life penalty then for. also in the journey that they were to convey decrease back the lack of life penalty there may continually be the accessible probability that someone who became really risk free may lose there life.

Answer 4

that is truly a weak question. If I were the judge I would try and switch the method of execution to something slower and more painful. Anyone who tries to use religion to escape from death penalty is not to bright, most religions have the same golden rule which is to treat others same way you want to be treated. hence, you murdered someone, so you must want to be murdered too. There would be no difference due to your religious preferences for death, if you were getting the death penalty for murder you would die one way or another. Don't kill anyone, it's bad.

Answer 5

You'd go through tons of appeals and possibly even a supreme court ruling that would lengthen your life in the short term, but eventually you'd still be put to death.

Answer 6

A number of states have an alternate means of carrying out executions such as hanging, firing squad or the electric chair. I think the only thing that you would accomplish is changing the means.

Answer 7

religion 0 Johnny Law 1

Sorry you would still be toast...you don't have religious rights for breaking the law.

Otherwise every death row inmate would have already done this as well.

Answer 8

I really think they would either go ahead with it, or find another method of execution.

Answer 9

You'd be given the death penalty anyway.

Answer 10

you die.

This issue would properly be considered during sentencing and if you've already been given the death penalty then your religious beliefs have already been considered and dismissed.