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Death penalty or capital punishment
is a form of government’s actions to punish the person who involve in
crime. (White J for Brennan, White,
Marshall, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens JJ, 1985) states that this practise
start from English common law where the offenders face the capital punishment
because of felony crimes. The country
around the world used different method of deatth penalty such as hanging, lethal
injection, firing squad and others.
Since
fifth century, hanging was introduced as a form of capital punishment by
Germanic Anglo- Saxon tribes. The hanging execution has been through a few
transformation since 1770 by British Politician, William Meredith (Historic,
2017). The position of the brass ring behind the ear has distinct advantages
and is best calculated to cause instantaneous and painless death, because it
acts in three different ways towards the same end. In the first place, it will
cause death by strangulation, which was really the only cause of death in the
old method before the long drop was introduced. Secondly, it dislocates
the vertebrate, which is now the actual cause of death. And thirdly, if a third
factor was necessary, it has a tendency to internally rupture the jugular vein,
which in itself is sufficient to cause practically instantaneous death. There
were a few offenses that could make you face the noose. For example in
Malaysia, mandatory punishment for murder, drug trafficking, and waging war against
the king. The law also has been extended to include art of terrorism (Malaysia
Law Act, 1952). Between 1970 until 2001, Malaysia has executed 359 prisoners
who including foreigner from around the world. Malaysia not the only country
practically use hanging as a mandatory punishment. There is a few state in
United States of America practice hanging as a capital punishment like
Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington.
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Death by firing squad is a form of execution usually
reserved for military personnel. The concept is simple: a prisoner either
stands or sits against a brick wall or some other heavy barrier. Five or more
soldiers line up side by side several feet away, and each one aims their
firearm directly at the prisoner’s heart. Upon hearing a cue called out by a
senior officer, all of the shooters fire simultaneously. In
most cases, the prisoner will be blindfolded when they are placed before the
firing squad. On some occasions, people have requested not to have their eyes
covered so that they may watch their executioners, but this is rare. The
blindfold is often as much for the benefit of the executioners as it is for the
prisoner. When the condemned person is able to look directly at the members of
the firing squad, it greatly reduces the executioners’ anonymity, creating a
more stressful situation for those simply fulfilling their duty.1
The most recent execution by this method was that of Ronnie Gardner. By his own
choosing, Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah, United State on June
17, 2010. When asked why he requested bullets instead of a lethal injection,
he told the Deseret
News, “I like the firing squad. It's so much easier … and there's no mistakes."2
Firing squad is a just punishment for crimes committed against the rights to
life, freedom and safety of victims. It is the right of an individual to live
peacefully and be free from harm. Unfortunately, crimes like murder, rape and
assault are committed by perpetrators who have no regard for life and property
of others. Since they violate other people’s lives, it is but fair that they
are brought to justice and suffer the fate they rightfully deserve. People who
are for capital punishment also talk about free will wherein an individual is
given the right to do things in his or her own volition and he or she is
responsible for his or her own fate.3
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(William,
2006) states that compare of hanging, death by lethal injection appears
painless and humane, perhaps because it mimics a medical procedure. Lethal
injection is one of the death penalty of injecting one or more drug into a
person for the express purpose of causing immediate death. The method of lethal
injection is the convict lie strapped to a gurney, then intravenous three drugs
into the intravenous line by executioners hidden behind a wall. The three drugs
are anesthetic (sodium thiopental), paralytic agent (pancuronium bromide) and
the last one named potassium chloride which cause the heart to stop bearing.
Followed (Jeanne Kim, 2014), there have seven countries use lethal injection;
they are United States, China, Taiwan, Guatemala, Thailand, Vietnam, and
Philippines. (Kate, 2009) said that the country where is first and the most
cases of lethal injection is United States. In 1997, an Oklahoma medical
examiner named Jay Chapman who had no expertise in pharmacology or anesthesia
and who did no research to develop any expertise had developed the three-drug
sequence. Texas was copied and execute the first lethal injection to a man in
1982. The first prisoner is a 40-year-old man nemed Charles Brooks who murdered
Fort Worth Mechanic David Gergory. (Louis J, 2008) statistics that 35.8% same
as 377 prisoners who executed by Texas with lethal injection from 1982 to
October 2006. (Kate, 2009) states that Taiwan is the first country outside
United States to legalize lethal injection but has never implement it to
anyone. It is because Taiwan choose to stick with the firing squad.
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