Desiree Sandoval Blog Post #2 Ohio Executes Inmate

The title of my article is Ohio Executes Inmate Using Single-drug Method and is from CNN.com. The article describes how an Ohio inmate was put to death on Tuesday, December 8th, using a new system of execution. The new system of execution was a new take on the old lethal injection method. Instead of giving the inmate three drugs to cause their death, they give the inmate one drug in a large dose. Kenneth Biros, who was convicted of murdering a 22 year old woman in 1991, was the inmate who was put to death on Tuesday. Biros and his attorney were battling the use of the one drug system at his execution since, as his attorney states, Biros would've essentially just be a human experiment for the government since no one has ever been executed using this method in the U.S. Only animals have ever been the subjects of the one drug method for execution before Biros.

This article relates to social control because it reminds me of our discussion of prisons and punishing. We spoke about how the death penalty is more expensive then leaving a person in prison for life, yet it is still done. We discussed the reasons for the death penalty as it being a possible deterent for criminals to not commit crimes because that might happen to them. It could also provide a sense of punishment for the victim's family because they might feel that whoever did that to their loved one, namely murder would fit here, got what they deserved or what they inflicted on someone else. In this case the punishment seems kind of cruel in that they really didn't know, as far as I can tell from the article, how the one drug system was going to effect humans since they had only ever tried it on animals in the U.S.