8 Ways to Die

Over the years, the types of death penalties have change drastically, from death by way of crucification to lethal injection. They have for the most part changed over the different time period, and have begin less and less volgur and dramatic. Many of the types are very quick and painful like hangings, stoning, beheadings, and fire squad. The others are slower and depending on what is, it may be painful or not, for instance lethal injection, gas chambers, and crucifications.

Lethal Injection happens to be the most common out of all the death penalties, though it is not civil at all. It seen at quick and painless. The criminal is injected with three drug: 5g Pentothol (sodium thiopental), which is intended to induce a coma, 100mg Pavulon (pancuronium bromide), which causes paralysis, and 100 mEq potassium chloride, which stops the heart. (All in sequence).

The gas chamber, though very similar to lethal injection, was also a very quick and painless way they use to kill criminals. It was usually advertised as the most humane and efficient way to die. The prisoner was usually strapped down within the chamber, and the executioner pulled a lever down on the outside of the chamber releasing potassium cyanide pellets into a vat of sulfuric acid, which floods the chamber with deadly hydrogen cyanide gas.

The most popular of the eight was the electri chair. This happened to be a very painful way to die. Alot of people have recieved the chair this method has decline drastically since the creation of  lethal injection. The prisoner is strapped down, shaved bald, and fitted with electrodes connecting to their head and foot. A switch is pull relasgin 2,000 volts through the prisoners body.

The firing squad is the least expensives of the eight ways of execution, and the most humane. The prisoner is placed in a chair strapped down with five sharpshooter are set up aiming their weapon at their heart. The all all and pull the trigger at on, though one of the guns is loaded with a blank round so that the shooters have the  relief that there is a 20 percent chance they didnt murder the convict.

Hanging was seen as a way of justice back in the day. The prisoner stand above a trap door with a rope around its neck in a "Hangman's noose". The lever is pull upon, dropping the prisoner, breaking thier neck instantly.

Stoning was the most extreme, time consuming and painful ways to die. In this, the prisoner is buried from a certain point of thier body (depending on the gender) and then is pelted with stones by a group of volunteers till battered to death. This execution take about 10- 20 minutes making it the longest and most painful way to die by capital punishment.

Beheadings are the most volgure of the eight ways to die. It quick, though gruesome. The prisoner is tied down, forced on knees and then beheaded by executioner by way of sword or knife.

Crucification is by far has the longest process of the eight and is pure torture. The prisoner is lifted from the ground and restrained at the arms, and left there to hang until the person get tired begins to fall forward and suffocates due to constricting of the lungs.  

As you see the eight ways to die have changes drastically over the time periods. Though capital punishment has become les popular today, the death penalty isnt as active as it use to be though that still hasnt stop anything.

References:

Head, T. (n.d.). Types of execution. Retrieved from http://civilliberty.about.com/od/capitalpunishment/ig/Types-of-Executions

"Women On Death Row"

Women do not typically get the death penalty for the crimes the commit. It was actually a very rare thing backthen. Blanche Moore was 56 at the time of the murder. On October 7th, 1986, Moore poisoned her former boyfriend, Raymond Reid, her father, P.D. Kiser, her first husband, James N. Taylor and made an attempt on her second husband Rev. Dwight Moore. The police became suspicious after a doctor gave a toxic test to Rev. Moore, and discovered he had been ill because he was given mass amount of arsenic poison and somehow survived.

The police got Moore's father, first husband, and boyfriends bodies exumed to find the cause of death of the three and had found they to had been given ridiculous amounts of arsenic poisoning. Blanche Moore was convicted for the murder of her boyfriend Raymond Reid and was to be put to death. Her excuse for killing the men in her life had been because her father was an alchoholic and forced her into prostitution to pay family bills.

I feel  Blanche Moore was put to justice, though it was not really proved that she had killed her father and first husband, she did indeed kill Reid and that did not help in proving her innocent of the other two murders and one attempt.

References:

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Montaldo, C. (n.d.). women on death row - blanche moore. Retrieved from http://crime.about.com/od/female_offenders/p/deathrowwomen3.htm

Death Row: The Wife Killer

Elias Syriani was said to have stabbed his wife, Theresa Yousef Syriani, a total of ten times with a screwdriver in 1990. In the presence on his children, Syriani forced the screwdriver through Theresa's skull into her brain because she filed for a divorce. The history of the Syrianis is that there marriage was somewhat arranged. They ended up having for children, including the one who wistnessed the murder. Elias was extremely abusive towards Theresa mostly because of financial problems and little things. The day of the murder, Theresa was on her way home from work with her 10 year old son. Elias blocked Theresa's path, jumped into her car and brutally stabbed her so hard, multiple times. Theresa did not immediately die, though she did 26 days later.



Syriani children were devastated and demanded to live with their aunts versus their 'father'. They did not want any contact with him at all and did not even want to refer to him as 'dad' or 'father' again. Later the Syriani children found it in their hearts to forgive their father for what he did after they heard his forgiveness speech, and fought to get his life spared. Though it was not enough and on November 18, 2005 was put to death by lethal injection.

I feel that justice was served in this case. Syriani brutally stabbed his wife without remorse and needed to be dealt with. Though the forgiveness of his children was touching and I am glad that they did hear him out before he was put to death, I feel it stil was no excuse for  his actions.

References:

Montaldo, C. (n.d.). Elias syriani - wife killer. Retrieved from http://crime.about.com/od/deathrow/p/syriani.htm

 

The Killer Clown and his Last Words

Pogo the Clown aka the Killer Clown was convicted serial rapist and killer John Wayne Gacy. Between the years of 1972 and 78 (arrested), Gacy was said to have tortured, raped, and murdered 33 males. Gacy's first known attack was said t be in 64' when he somehow lured a young boy into the back of his father- in- laws store.he attempted to sodomize the boy when he refused to perform oral sex. The young boy reported John Wayne and he did 18 month of a 10 year prison sentence for sexual molestation.

Gacy and his wife filed for divorce and he moved back to his hometown of Chicago where he remarried. This marriage last not to long because his wife refused to perform his sick sexual fantasies. By 1978 he was on the prowl for homosexual young men, luring them into his home and brutally torturing, raping and killing them. Police became suspicious when the mother of one of the young boys reported her son missing. The police kept Gacy under surveillance and when they entered the home they were shocked by the odor of decaying bodies. The authorities then found multiple bodies, all men raging from the ages of 9 to 20, in the crawlspaces within the home, in the nearby river and in the yard. The police arrested John Wayne in 78'.

Gacy was sentenced to death in 1980 and tried swaying the police by switching up his stories to stay alive. In the end he did not succeed and was finally put to death May 10th, 2004. His final words were "kiss my ass".

References:
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Montaldo, C. (n.d.). John wayne gacy the "killer clown". Retrieved from http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/gacy.htm

Justice Served : "The Texas Animal"

 Marion, Texas resident, Joshua Maxwell (22 at the time), was arrested and convicted along with his two accomplices Frank Grahm and Tess McFarland for the murder of Berxar County Deputy Sheriff, Sgt. Rudolfo Lopes in San Antonio, Texas. The three murder the sheriff in cold blood on October of 2000 and attempted to dump the body behind a Strip Mall. He was found blindfolded and tied up with a single 9mm bullet in his head.

Maxwell and his girlfriend, McFarland, were chased down in a gun war with the authorities in San Fransisco. Not even a month prior, Maxwell, and McFarland kidnapped Robbie Bott after forcing him to withdraw money from automatic teller machines. The police found Bott's car  abandoned and aflame with Bott's "charred, hogtied body in the trunk. Autopsy said a gunshot to the torso with the cause of death.

After arrested, Maxwell confessed to both murders and was sentenced to death on March 12, 2003. Before recieving lethal injection said,
“I hurt a lot of people with the decisions I made. I can't be more sorry than I am right now. This person who did that 10 years ago isn't the same person you see today. I want to address you. I am sorry. I don't know who you are. I am sorry. I put you through some things that I can't take back." But he said his execution was "creating more victims. This is not going to change anything." To his son, Maxwell stated "I hurt the Lopes family. Let this be a lesson. Your decisions affect everybody. Look after your sister for me.” 
Immediately after these last words Joshua, on March 11th, 2010 @ 6:27 p.m., was put to death by lethal injection.

I feel McFarland did a lot of horrible things for no reason whatsoever and needed the punishment that was coming for him. I do give him credit for swallowing his pride in the end and saying what he had to say. Justice was served.

References:
Murderers on death row. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://carla1975ky.tripod.com/
Joshua maxwell executed. (2010, March 11). Retrieved from http://odatat.blogspot.com/2010/03/joshua-maxwell-executed.html
Joshua maxwell . (2010, March 11). Retrieved from http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/maxwell1197.htm

Change In Direction

Petitioner Patrick Kennedy was convicted (2004) and sentenced to death in Louisiana for the aggravated rape of his then 8 year-old stepdaughter. Lousiana State is very strict on the consequences of raping a child under twelve and will result in state punishment.Kennedy refused to confess or plead guilty and blamed the rape on two neighborhood little boys. He then appeal on the defense that in the death is extremely harsh for such an offense. The state rejected Petitionaer reliance on the Coker v. Georigia case (1977), which did not allow the use of capital punishment for raping an woman because it was a child. In the end the Supreme Court bannedth use of the Eigth Amendment  in the case where a child was raped if it does not result in the child's death.

I feel that this case is tricky because I do not believe the eigth amendment should have been lifted since the child did not die. If a person rapes a kid who has not even hit puberty yet, they deserve to get the consequence of capital punushment hands down. Its is completely unfair that they change up the law and capital punishment will only abide in the case of death.

This case in particular is very disturbing seeing that a grown man with no sympathy at all went along and raped his not even ten year old step daughter, tearing various body parts.. Kennedy did receive lethal injection and was kill for the aggraveted rape of this little girl.

References:
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Major death penalty cases in the us supreme court:kennedy v. lousiana. (2008 , October 6). Retrieved from http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=001769

Death Row

The famous tragic case of the Peterson family began on Christmas Eve 2002, when the husband and father on the family, Scott Peterson, took the life of both his wife Laci Peterson and his unborn son Conner Peterson and dumped the bodies in the San Francisco Bay. The case went on for months seeing that Mrs. Peterson had went missing and when the detectives finally found her and her unborn son corpses, they collected evidence which put Peterson in prison, first with life with out parole in San Quentin State Prison, then on death row.

Peterson was to receive lethal injection in March 2005 for the murder of his family but he appealed the judges decision and probably will not face execution for about two decades. He has been rotting in prison for about five, six years now, and is constantly being moved from cell to cell. Though he still gets visits and has contacts with his family and friends, Scott Peterson is not likely to see daylight ever again. So for now he will be just sticking to shooting hoops in the court yard, playing cards with other inmates, and doing pull-ups because that is all the actions he is going to be getting.

In my opinion, I feel that Perterson commited the crime. I have always have from watching the various new stories and movies that were based on the crime. Death row for commiting the murder of you unborn child

and wife is deserved because who is to say Peterson will not do it again.

References:
Bane, V. (2009, April 11). Inside story: scott peterson's life on death row. Retrieved from http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20271730,00.html
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