Last Tuesday, in the US state of Missouri, Brian Dorsey was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Dorsey was sentenced in 2006 for the murder of his cousin Sarah Boney and her husband Benjamin Boney. Recent attempts to commute his sentence to life imprisonment have failed.
According to a CNN report, Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Karen Pojman told a press conference that the method of execution was lethal injection and it went smoothly without any problems. The execution of 52-year-old Dorsey came hours after the US Supreme Court refused to intervene and about a day after Missouri's Republican governor refused to grant a pardon.
Lethal Injection: A Controversial Method of Death Penalty
Lethal Injection is the most common method of carrying out the death penalty in the United States. In this, the accused is injected with several medicines, which first renders him unconscious and then he dies. However, lethal injection is a controversial topic.
Human rights groups argue that lethal injection causes unbearable pain and is cruel and unusual punishment. Also, it often causes unbearable pain. Some legal scholars also argue that lethal injection violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits unusual and cruel punishment.
Will the disputes end?
The debate on lethal injection continues in America. Some states have abolished this method, while other states have retained it. Brian Dorsey's death sentence may rekindle the debate on the death penalty in America. Questions are being raised about the humanity of lethal injection and some states are considering abolishing the death penalty altogether. It remains to be seen what form the death penalty will take in America in the future.
