Sunday, July 24, 2011

Video of a Lethal Injection Reopens Question on the Privacy of Executions

This article is dealing again with the death penalty and the same question is being ask, should the death penalty be given?
No matter what people say or what this article says about the death penalty that Andrew Grant DeYoung received was horrible and what made it worst is the fact that his last words(" I'm sorry for everyone I've hurt ") along with his last breaths were caught on video as prove that the injection of drugs should not be given. Other than that issue there was another issue that supposedly the tape will never be aired or shown to public but what Mr. Berman said was something very true and that is that " somewhere, somehow, at some point, this will become publicly accessible."

Never has an execution been taped and now the execution of Andrew who was accussed of the murder of is parents and sister was taped to show the effect of the drugs. Deborah W. Denno, expert on the death penalty said that it really didn't matter if the video was exposed to the public, there has been far more worst things shown and this wouldn't do anything wrong except show how someone was killed for their crimes. This got me thinking because I know that there has been horrible things shown in YouTube or anywhere but I think that by showing this video to public will make people think that we are being cruel by the way that we are killing this criminals. But one thing that has not changed is that criminals deserve to be punish no matter what.

Sorry if I misspelled anything or might not make much sense is because I wrote it quick and on my cell:)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/us/24video.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us
Posted by Cecilia at 1:16 PM

1 comment:

Shoshana said...

This article was really thought-provoking, bringing to light questions about how much is seen and should be seen by the public. Two points of view were presented: that people see violence and other graphic content every day, therefore watching one video of an execution is not a big deal, or that if videos of executions are distributed publicly, then eventually, people will become indifferent to seeing someone die, or other such content.
In my opinion, these videos should not even be taken in the first place, or if it is necessary to take them for legal measures, that they should be carefully guarded as to not become publicly distributed. I understand that people see violence on the news every day, but there is a difference between that and a private video released after someones death. The person executed has already received the ultimate punishment, so why punish their families more?

August 21, 2011 at 7:41 AM

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