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Show Page 6 . The Dixie Sun Januar uarv to Die? Capital Punishment: The Ethical Waystatefor Criminals ethics execution. In America, if a person is found to have committed unspeakable crimes, they can face the death penalty. Capital punishment is used as a deterrent of criminality, but how effective is it and can it really stop murderers from killing again? In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that under existing law, "the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty. . .constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments." The law was appealed four years later when more than 600 persons sentenced to death were being accounted for with gov- ernment funding. In July 1976, the Supreme Court opposed their first ruling, stating, "The punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution." New statutes contained "objective standards to guide, regularize, and make rationally reviewable the process for imposing the sentence of death." Executions resumed in 1977 to kill with Utah as the first a prisoner under the new law. By the early 1990's, nearly 3000 criminals were sentenced with the death penalty, and more than 180 were executed. Common methods of execution include electrocution, gas chamber, lethal injection, hanging, and firing squad. There is heated debate as to the legitimacy of hanging and firing squad as an ethical method of execution. To date, Utah and Idaho are the only two states in the union to list firing squad as a means of of capital more specifically, But why does capital punishment cause such a controversy in pUn According to the Tribune, before Taylor V granted an interview Utah high school stud, this interview, he said hr to die by firing squad in see his "heavenly being that he own blood in orde accepted in his suppose this country? Groups for and against capital punishment radically speak out fotheir own side, yet rarely reach any common ground. These debates occur in excess around the time a criminal is sent from death row to the execution chamber. With the recent execution of John Albert Taylor, groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) delved into the S; ham .gain, Well, the Z Bo1 Super And v jin. Yes, they NFL. E ,bovs are he life. field. an V Just before 12:01 a.m January 26, Taylor was l; maximum security wa: where his death awaited 1:., special chair with a and, i backing, a blood drip velcro arm and leg stra miey can constructed to aid in it ,y and the salary ce squad execution. ,ve been a walls, Through glass members of both Taylor; inning the sansmon girl he killed, police offio , ans ever various members of th. dCo. Ins watched five gun wieldi: ine line bet cutioners aim for their tat. j.hat goes ( 12:10 a.m., Taylor was lias Cow out of the prison warehoi im in spe Though Salt Lake Ci in on Sun cials argued staying the ows that the garni tion, Taylor insisted it it ngeraga not. or through, ethical lave turne People in this countr the buck executions either justii u get it ( brutal. Arguments contin. The Pitt pnoints come into play, lathing to out. A te real issue of justice anal spoi remains constant. p Taylor. 36. is scheduled to die by firing squad Jan. 26. at Utah State Prison. He is convicted of the 1989 rape and Charta Nicole King. strangulation of 1 1 year-old John Albert e YOU CAN TRUST Elliott Merlin King (victim's relative), Gary Heward (Weber County attorney), Craig Dearden (Weber County sheriff), Det. Marcia Christensen (first officer at crime scene). Reed Richards (Utah attorney general's office) Alternate Executioner The execution chamber is 25 feet long. 20 feet wide. 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