The death penalty is an issue that politicians and regular people have kept their distance from, because it is very controversial. With the myriad ways to be executed, Ohio has adopted a new way to carry out executions: A single injection of a large dose of anesthesia. Lethal injections have been delivered through a three-drug coctail of chemicals. This way of execution is seen by critics as inhumane. However the single shot method is seen as more humane because it is similar to animal euthenasia.
Whether or not this new method is humane or not, the officials and executioners must be trained to use it correctly. In a botched execution of Romell Broom, one of the executioners did not show up to his required rehearsals, and that caused the inmate's execution to be called off.
This is not the first botched execution in our history, there have been many more.
So all together, is continuing the death penalty a worthwhile endeavor? Even with Ohio's new single injection, executions are still being done incorrectly. The cost of the trial, and execution of one person is tremendous. Keeping a prisoner in jail is sereveral times cheaper than executing one. On the other hand though, the death penalty provides closure in the fact that, the murder i.e. of a loved one will be gone, and is not a threat to anyone else. As I said earlier, this is a controversial topic, and an important one. An issue that stands in the greyer areas of the law, and one we must as a country find a solution to.