However, lethal injections have not always been successful. The first lethal injection was held in Guatemala and was a painful and horrific experience for everyone there that day. The person to attach the line that was to supply the constant, steady flow of poison to the prisoner's body was so nervous that it took a long time to start the process. There was then a power cut which stopped the flow of poison reaching its prey and the prisoner took 18 minutes in total to die. This to me does not seem like an easy, pain free experience. Any form of execution is inhumane. All methods can be painful and have their own unpleasant kind. If we save the innocent from the criminals, capital punishment is necessary. Many people will attack the concept of the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the convicted person who might be executed. But they are forgetting one vital part while doing so, they are forgetting about the thousands of victims who die ever year from the hands of these evil murderers.
Unfortunately, the death penalty is used so rarely that it isn't as effective as it could be. Instead of the death penalty they brought in the sentence to life. This is not been very effective as some prisoners are released as little as seven years and many more don’t serve more then ten years and then the murderers are released. “Even when ‘life imprisonment’ is imposed, it has proved to be a totally misleading phrase.” Quote by Paul Johnson. I think that the quote implies that the quote is misleading because when life imprisonment is giving with it comes a minimum of years to do prison time, for what reason? In order to provide its reason, it must be adjusted and made more effective. If the punishment fits the crime it is suitable, even to the limit of death. Great Britain needs someone for deciding who receives the death penalty by a jury. The death penalty should be helped in order to truly put off crime. I strongly feel towards using capital punishment for unspeakable crimes. It is a limit for criminal actions because of its harshness and it will make a murderer think twice about what they are about to do. The death penalty is not a problem if all the areas have been investigated and nothing is questionable.
Many people agree that the death penalty should remain as some crimes are so hideous that they are not able to be paid for by spending your life in prison and they feel that the 'ultimate´ price should be paid, your life. Surely we do not want such people in Great Britain and people who do such things should leave the world as a warning to others not to do the same. Some people argue that the moment someone commits a dreadful crime they are knowingly breaking the law. This means that you if you commit murder then you should be murdered and by taking the life of another person before their time you are giving up rights to carry out an unnatural end. But what happens when someone is unable to tell apart from what is right and wrong at the time of his or her crime.
Ruth Ellis was executed at Holloway prison in 1955 for the murder of her lover David Blakney. She shot him after he beat her so savagely that she lost her unborn child. In this case the question of anger that was brought into Ruth Ellis should she have been put to death also? Although she had every right to murder her husband in a way she should have done the right thing by telling the police and doing it the long way round. Although the process would have been very long her husband would have been brought down rather then both of them.
In conclusion to this essay I agree that the death penalty should be brought back to a certain extent because if people realise for doing such crimes they will be sentenced to death. This will make other murderers think twice about what they are going to do. I also think that it should be brought back because since the death penalty has been abolished the amount of crimes and murders has increased and the people who do them have no such fear.
On the other hand I think that the death penalty is brutal and in some ways if a prisoner is put to death it should be painless and the quickest way where as the putting of poison into the blood took time and pain. This in my eyes the executioner who did such a thing has dug as low as the murderer. It is also ending the person life in an unnatural way as you are ending their time before it should be.