http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-signs-bill-electric-chair-23836338
I came across this article and thought it was interesting. According to this article, Tennessee want's to bring back the electric chair because lethal injection drugs are becoming scarce. With supplies becoming scarce, prisons "obtain execution drugs in secret from unidentified" places. Although this is a concern, I think Tennessee shouldn't bring back the electric chair. It's a cruel and unusual punishment and goes against the constitution. It burns prisoners body and sometimes if the person doesn't die right away, they would have to electrify him even more. On the other hand, if one were to take lethal injection drugs, they can die right away with no burning feel. Another interesting thing is that most of the states who still have the electric chair as a punishment are states in the south like Texas, Alabama and Georgia.
I looked up the cost of the death penalty in Tennessee and on the websitehttp://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty it stated that "death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment". I believe that they are already spending so much on death penalties that a few more dollars wouldn't make much of a difference.I agree that the electric chair seems to cruel and less efficient.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I disagree with the death penalty. I don't think it's fair to kill prisoners at all no matter how bad their crime committed was. It's an easy pass, they suffer for a little bit then die, they should be locked up to live with their guilt eating away at them every minute of every day. Essentially the death penalty kills people who kill people to show them that killing people is bad. Now how's that for a double standard?
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