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The article discuss how the state of California Corrections uses Lethal Injections on prisoners. The state of California's new procedure for carrying out executions by lethal injection violates international human rights.
The Human Rights Watch said the state of California needs to minimize prisoner's physical and mental suffering. A 2009 Human Rights Watch report showed that use of this drug creates excruciating pain, which leaves you unable to move or feel any part of your body.
The director of the Humans Rights Watch said it’s shocking that California plans to put human beings to death using a method that’s considered too cruel to use on animals.
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Human Rights Watch found that death penalty states that lethal injection may cause unnecessary pain and suffering. If the prisoner is still alive 10 minutes after injected then the warden is to order that a second round of drugs be given.
Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty in all circumstances because of its cruelty. when the death penalty is applied by a State party for the most serious crimes, it must be carried out in such a way as to cause the least possible physical and mental suffering.
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The Human Rights Watch said that executions can be used only when they inflict the minimum possible suffering.
Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty ratified by the United States in 1992, says that no one should be put in so much pain and torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
California must revise its procedures to ensure that executions are carried out so as to inflict the least possible physical and mental suffering on the prisoner.
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As the prisoner lies strapped to a gurney, three drugs are injected into his vein by executioners hidden behind a wall.
The first drug is injected and which paralyzes voluntary muscles, but leaves the prisoner fully conscious and able to experience pain.
The second drugs sends an electric charge though the body.
The last drug quickly sends the prisoner into cardiac arrest