Senior Paper #2

Claim—United States crime rates would drop substantially if we reverted from the use of lethal injection as capital punishment to the form used in medieval times.


Imagine you steal a television from a local electronics store. The police arrest you and find you have some prior and are going to go to prison the judge who tries your case sends you to 5 years in prison. In past times such a crime could have gotten you far worse; the rack, whipped, the thumb crusher, and far worse. Now imagine a person you know kills another and is sent to death row. They spend 5 years sitting in a cell then are executed by method of lethal injection. In past times the person’s sentence would have been much more sever and dealt with promptly. Weather it was the pear in the mouth, the chair, or any other methods you can guarantee it would be drawn out, painful, and lead to either death or infection leading to death no matter what. Which would you like more? Lethal injection or medieval torture? I hope you chose lethal injection. However if you saw in the news not of criminals dying of lethal injection or the electric chair; but of the death by the pear of anguish, racks, stocks , or other methods would you be likely to ever commit that kind of crime? I know I wouldn’t. Even with stealing if you got whipped or placed in the stocks for a week you would not steal but the punishment of jail time, fines, and community service we receive and see now does nothing to cause us not to steal. I believe the crime rates in the United States would drop substantially if we reverted from the means of capital punishment we use today to the forms of medieval torture once used.


Outline
Introduction

Information on current capital punishment
- types
- why
- flaws in ways now
- static’s

Medieval torture
- methods
- reasons
- flaws

Current Laws on CP
- laws
- constitution

Why we should revert
- why its better to use
- improvements
- static comparisons
- how it would improve
- constitution

Proposal
- what would change
- what would stay the same
- how you make it work

Conclusion
- tying it all together
- final why