Should Capital Punishment Prisoners Be Used For Medical Researches - A Reflection on the Political Neutrality of Government Employees

Should Capital Punishment Prisoners Be Used For Medical Researches - A Reflection on the Political Neutrality of Government Employees

Introduction

Capital punishment is a debatable social issue in the United States since the law has been formulated. Majority of the US population and other countries has opposed this Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. Many countries and states in US ha stopped its execution based on human rights. According to Gallup poll in 2011, 61 percent of American people supported execution of capital punishment in cases of murder while 35 percent of people condemned. Today, the level of support has also decreased as it was in1980 and 1990s. Capital punishment is on decline nearly at the end twentieth century (Herbert H., 1996). Soss, J., Lanbein, L., and Metelko, A. (2003) found that White Americans are the greater supporters of death penalty than the minorities of the United States and they came up with the findings that racial discrimination appears as a powerful predictor of white support for the death penalty.

 Many prisoners have had their death punishments overturned since 1973 when they were found innocent and when DNA testing resulted in such cases to be overturned. Such mistakes in the capital punishment system lose and shake the public confidence. Statistics show that United States is having very large prison populations. In 2004 the United States had the largest percentage of prisoners than any nation. Despite various issues related to imprisonment in United States including human rights of prisoners, torture and abuses, the main issue is sentencing the prisoner to death who actually deserves it. There are many criticisms on this issue debating various issues of criminal including their mental health problems, environment physical tortures and sexual abuse ...