Furthermore, Saunders and other pro-lethal injection lobbyists' opinion that lethal injection is not cruel due to the amount of anesthetic given are directly encountered by physical evidence, such as the burn marks Weil notes were observed on the body of one executed man and the lack of execution training that Weil argues is commonly practiced. In addition, proponents of legal injection may note that lethal injection is not unusual, in that 37 of the 50 states use this method (Weil). But when viewed in globally, the United States, paired with the likes of China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan, performed 91% of all executions (Amnesty International). Thus, among industrialized democracies, lethal injection, executions in general, are far from usual. Thus, in the face of opposition, it has become increasingly clear that execution via legal injection is legally unacceptable in that it is unconstitutional, illegal.
In additional legality, however, legal injection can be struck down because of its immoral or unethical status. While arguing morality and ethics is always a difficult task because many people have different values, and therefore different sets of morals and ethics, by looking at the common and popular value of human rights, one can suggest that lethal injection is, indeed, immoral or unethical. According to Amnesty International, many international treaties have called for the abolition of the death penalty. These treaties, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights, have suggested the immorality and unethical nature of the death penalty (Amnesty International). If the death penalty itself is immoral, then lethal injection, by default must also be immoral.
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