16 B Edison Capital Punishment – Heera J

Edison’s position on electrocution is very unethical. He tried to save his business by saying that AC was dangerous and to prove his point he electrocuted animals. The animals that he bought of little kids on the street were victims to Edison’s experimentation. After he used all the little animals he moved onto a horse and then later and elephant. When Edison wanted electrocution to be the capital punishment, he only thought about how to make Westinghouse look bad. He didn’t even stop for one moment to consider what the victim of the electrocution might suffer. All Edison had in mind was to take down Westinghouse. Edison would not have supported electrocution if someone close to him was to be experimented on. He wasn’t thinking of it would affect other people. It is a good thing that Edison wanted the public to be aware of the dangers in AC but the way he went about it was wrong. And even more to solidify his theory, he put a man through unexplainable pain and torture before he died. Kemler was a crazy murderer and he deserved to die but no human whether he is evil or not should be put to death through electrocution.