Journal #2
The issue is whether the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals should have ruled that the state of Arkansas could force death-row prisoner Charles Laveme Singleton to take antipsychotic drugs to make him sane enough to execute. Another issue presented here is whether it is right for the government to ask doctors to make people better so that the government can kill them. My position on this issue is that I agree with what the court did. If Singleton was already on death-row meaning that he was sentenced to death by a jury and that at the time he was obviously determined sane then it makes no difference if he's given any drugs to make him sane or not he still is going to die in prison. He was sentenced to death before he became insane. I think that the court ruled correctly in this case because Singleton was on death row from the start. If the case had been that he was clinically diagnosed insane during his trail phase then he should have gone to a hospital or clinic and spent his days having the apporpiate care, but that is not the case. So giving him medication to make him sane enough to execute him is just a waste of drugs.

On the second issue I believe that the government should not be allowed to ask doctors for medical help to cure a patient so that they can be killed later.