LETHAL INJECTION

Lethal injection is one of the process of executing a criminal it is belong to Capital

punishment which other countries legalize, if we imagine someone being killed because he/she

commit crimes does he/she deserve a second chance? The never ending argument between taking

someone lives or giving him/her a second chance is a very hard decision, if we put ourselves in

the situation of the criminals we can say that we want to change ourselves we demand for a

second chance but if we put ourselves in the situation of the victims we want justice, just like in

the saying an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.

Nowadays, the crime rate is rapidly increasing. The government can’t control criminals,

the only way for them to minimize the criminal act is to imposed capital punishment, but some in

government use it as cover to their crimes. If we choose a process of executing, the most moral

way is lethal injection because the criminal won’t feel the pain until they die. Lethal injection is

the process of injecting drugs to a person, many in other countries practice this kind of

punishment because it causes an immediate death. Some uses this for suicide or euthanasia. If we

imagine many criminals have been executed. It’s been so alarming these days; in the Philippines

many are been killed because of war on drugs implemented by Rodrigo Duterte. Executing

someone or taking someone lives doesn’t makes you a criminal to? The answer underlies if the

punishment is legalized. But if we relate it to divine law theory, it is not moral to take someone

lives even he/she is a criminal. But if want to make something happen, does really imposing

capital punishment make difference? For me no, if you take away someone lives just to give

justice to the victims, can that make you satisfied or can lessen the pain you are baring?

Remember you cannot take back the life of your love ones. If we relate it to principle of utility,

an act of producing the greatest good for the greatest number, we can say that imposing capital
punishment can immediately give justice to those have been victim by murder, rape, and

plunderers, but because of human right criminals has the right to be protected. Crime is one of

the biggest social problem because it affects the society, the most common forms of crimes are

rape, robbery, assault, murder and theft, what are the reason why these people commit crimes?

Maybe because they are greed, anger, jealously, revenge, or pride. The primary reason why

people tend to do such things is because of extreme poverty, lack of available jobs, low self-

esteem, alcohol and drug abuse, these are the reasons why criminals break the law.

The government should focus more on what are the roots why there are still people

breaking the law, the government should take more focus on poverty because criminals do not

tend to do bad things if they don’t lack of something, if they don’t lack of something they don’t

even think to steal, murder or even rape. The problem is not the people but the government itself,

if we still living in a corruption country nothing would change, even the development of our

country is not even moving because of the people who rans are government. The government

should create more jobs, enacting policy is not the only solution to global poverty, as policy

often does not affect those suffering directly. Create more opportunity for the people to have

more chances of overcoming their problems, providing houses to those living in a low class of

living. Many in other countries implemented lethal injection in China, Thailand, Guatemala,

Taiwan, Maldives, Nigeria and Vietnam. The used of this method is primary use by United

States and China. Implementing lethal injection or capital punishment in other countries are

running successfully because in lessen the criminal rates to their country. Taking someone lives

is not the solution to minimize or prevent the problem of crime rates, doing the right thing is the

best way to prevent the problem we are facing, we should think first if it is moral to take
someone lives, we should be aware of the actions we are doing. If want to make something

happen our country should fix the government first.

Prince Reilon G. Samson BSA-2A