4. There are questions about the appropriate methods for execution and the issue of cruel and unusual punishment.
Earlier this year, a death row inmate in Oklahoma died of a heart attack 40 minutes after his lethal injection went awry. This was just the latest in a string of problematic executions over the past several years. Knowing that the lethal injection process is intended to be swift and relatively painless, one must question what went wrong and why and if this is what justice really means.
