Many people never have or never will watch someone watch someone die by the death penalty. After reading an article explaining the D.C Sniper, John Allen Muhammed, and his experience with the lethal injection, I do not think that I could watch a life be taken. This does not mean I do not support the death penalty, but I do not know how people proceed with "handling" the situation or sit behind a pane of glass to watch it take place. A reporter who watched stated, "He didn't say anything. At 9:07 you could see him twitch a lot. You could see him blinking a lot. You could see his breathing increase." He stopped breathing after just seven breaths. Lethal injection is just one way to die though. People have been executed throughout by hanging, electrocution, and even stoning or burning at the stake. I am not sure if any of these ways are acceptable, but maybe theres another one out there. A experience truly put to words the emotion of the actual execution. Muhammed was speechless and did not have any last words to say before his death, but what can you say to a bunch of people you do not know? Lethal injection might kill someone fast as it did to Muhammed but is there a better way than today's use of lethal injection to formally execute someone under the law?
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-10/justice/virginia.sniper.execution_1_sniper-john-allen-muhammad-washington-area-sniper-larry-traylor?_s=PM:CRIME
