Apparently, the one and only U.S company that supplied the drugs for lethal injection has stopped production. The company has stopped making sodium thiopental, the sedative, because they wanted to switch to an Italian manufacturing plant. The manufacturing plant told the company that the only way they would allow the switch is that there is assurance that the drug will not be used for executions. What does this mean for the death penalty? Death penalty proponents like Dudly Sharp are saying that the court system will try to delay executions but are offering alternatives for the convicts.
I thought that this article was interesting just because the topic of capital punishment is so controversial. Who says that we have the right to judge a person's right to live? Then again, what gives these criminals a right to live when they are able to hurt and take lives so easily? I personally believe that there should not be capital punishment. I think a life in prison would be a far better punishment. Why would we want to take away their pain by ending their life early? Let them think about what they have done, the pain that they have caused.
Flam, Lisa. "End of Lethal Injection Drug in US Leaves Death Penalty in Flux." Aol News. 25 Jan. 2011. Web. 26 Jan. 2011.
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