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'''Capital punishment''' or the '''death penalty''' is the killing of a person as a penalty for a [[crime]]. [[Murray Rothbard]] proposed that a person specify in his will whether he would prefer that a person who murders him be executed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/4468|title=The Libertarian Position on Capital Punishment|date=13 June 2010|author=Rothbard, Murray|publisher=Mises Daily}}</ref>
'''Capital punishment''' or the '''death penalty''' is the killing of a person as a penalty for a [[crime]]. [[Murray Rothbard]] proposed that a person specify in his will whether he would prefer that a person who murders him be executed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/4468|title=The Libertarian Position on Capital Punishment|date=13 June 2010|author=Rothbard, Murray|publisher=Mises Daily}}</ref>
 
==Methods==
Various [[interest group]]s have had difficulty agreeing on the most humane execution method to use. Hanging has been mostly replaced by lethal injection. A three-drug cocktail has been used by some states, involving an anesthetic (either pentobarbital or, formerly, sodium thiopental), pancuronium bromide (a paralytic agent), and potassium chloride (stops the heart and causes death). It has been proposed that instead a one-drug protocol be implemented that uses a massive dose of pentobarbital or propofol, as this eliminates the possibility that the barbiturate might not knock the person out completely and that he might suffer when the pain-inducing drugs in the cocktail are administered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-lethal-injection|title=State by State Lethal Injection|author=Death Penalty Information Center}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 23:54, 27 November 2013

Capital punishment or the death penalty is the killing of a person as a penalty for a crime. Murray Rothbard proposed that a person specify in his will whether he would prefer that a person who murders him be executed.[1]

Methods

Various interest groups have had difficulty agreeing on the most humane execution method to use. Hanging has been mostly replaced by lethal injection. A three-drug cocktail has been used by some states, involving an anesthetic (either pentobarbital or, formerly, sodium thiopental), pancuronium bromide (a paralytic agent), and potassium chloride (stops the heart and causes death). It has been proposed that instead a one-drug protocol be implemented that uses a massive dose of pentobarbital or propofol, as this eliminates the possibility that the barbiturate might not knock the person out completely and that he might suffer when the pain-inducing drugs in the cocktail are administered.[2]

References