Dead Man Walking a movie of a man pleading for his life while on death row. Matthew Poncelet reaches out to a nun, Sister Helen Prejean, for help in his appeal. Sister Helen found an attorney, Hilton Barber, to fight for Matthew’s appeal. At the first appeal for a stay of execution Hilton makes a few very compelling points that make you question the death penalty and how humane it really is. As the movie goes on, it has more moments like that one where you question am I truly for or against the death penalty. The moment when Sister Helen is talking to Mary Beth and Clyde Percy about their daughter, whom was raped then stabbed seventeen times before finally being shot in the back of the head and left in the wood where she and the other victim
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The death penalty reduces the prison population. Without the death penalty all the people on death row would become a life without parole inmates and increasing the prison population. When prisons become overpopulated it can become dangerous, there isn’t enough space to properly keep the inmate, the inmate to guard ratio becomes skewed. There are more inmates to guards making it easier for the inmates to overpower the guards and cause a very dangerous situation, like a riot to happen. Prisons run on a fairly strict budget as well, so having to accommodate more inmates than their budget was set for, stretches to funds thin. Making inmate care less than what it should be, and this could cause unrest among the inmates making the prison more dangerous than a properly populated and budgeted prison. The death penalty may not be the cure for the overpopulation problem in prison but it does help. Just think for a moment that the death penalty never existed, all of those that didn’t commit a crime because of the death penalty looming over head now have and now are serving life without parole and all those that were on death row now also have life without parole, making the prison population skyrocket. Though this is an extreme scenario, but it does get the point across very well. The death penalty has been very important for protecting others from harmed, to
The death penalty reduces the prison population. Without the death penalty all the people on death row would become a life without parole inmates and increasing the prison population. When prisons become overpopulated it can become dangerous, there isn’t enough space to properly keep the inmate, the inmate to guard ratio becomes skewed. There are more inmates to guards making it easier for the inmates to overpower the guards and cause a very dangerous situation, like a riot to happen. Prisons run on a fairly strict budget as well, so having to accommodate more inmates than their budget was set for, stretches to funds thin. Making inmate care less than what it should be, and this could cause unrest among the inmates making the prison more dangerous than a properly populated and budgeted prison. The death penalty may not be the cure for the overpopulation problem in prison but it does help. Just think for a moment that the death penalty never existed, all of those that didn’t commit a crime because of the death penalty looming over head now have and now are serving life without parole and all those that were on death row now also have life without parole, making the prison population skyrocket. Though this is an extreme scenario, but it does get the point across very well. The death penalty has been very important for protecting others from harmed, to