Murder is crazy
Andre Thomas, Andre Frank Garrett, Larry Keith Robison and Monty Allen Delk were all convicted of murder and sentenced to death for committing multiple murders. What do all these men have in common besides the type of crimes they have committed? All have been diagnosed of some form of mental disease, mainly paranoid schizophrenic. Although not all death row prisoners qualify as mentally ill, In my opinion most human beings must have some mental lap in judgment or mental breakdown to commit such horrible and heinous crimes. Therefore my opinion, their punishment is better served in a prison versus death penalty. I am against the death penalty.
Monty Allen Delk, killed a man in 1986, executed in 2002. Delk behaved delusionally and claimed to be the president of Kenya and a submarine commander. Asked if he had any last words, he replied, "I am the warden. Get your warden off this gurney and shut up…You are not in America. This is the island of Barbados, people will see you doing this." Are these the last words of a person who …show more content…
I am trying to make the point that a human being who commits murders and crimes that are punishable by death, cannot be in the right state of mind to do such things to another human being. "You see, I truly believe that murderers are mentally ill," she explains. "You see, I truly believe that murderers are mentally ill," she explains. "Their brains don't work like the rest of ours do. To deliberately kill someone requires crossing a profound boundary. Most of us couldn't do it. We couldn't even think about it. But they can. They do. Why? Because they're mentally ill. And fundamentally, as a society, I believe it is barbaric to kill people who are ill." -Elaine Whitfield Sharp. We can never truly know what goes on though another person's brain, it would be easier to keep them locked up for life, than to have them executed for
Andre Thomas, Andre Frank Garrett, Larry Keith Robison and Monty Allen Delk were all convicted of murder and sentenced to death for committing multiple murders. What do all these men have in common besides the type of crimes they have committed? All have been diagnosed of some form of mental disease, mainly paranoid schizophrenic. Although not all death row prisoners qualify as mentally ill, In my opinion most human beings must have some mental lap in judgment or mental breakdown to commit such horrible and heinous crimes. Therefore my opinion, their punishment is better served in a prison versus death penalty. I am against the death penalty.
Monty Allen Delk, killed a man in 1986, executed in 2002. Delk behaved delusionally and claimed to be the president of Kenya and a submarine commander. Asked if he had any last words, he replied, "I am the warden. Get your warden off this gurney and shut up…You are not in America. This is the island of Barbados, people will see you doing this." Are these the last words of a person who …show more content…
I am trying to make the point that a human being who commits murders and crimes that are punishable by death, cannot be in the right state of mind to do such things to another human being. "You see, I truly believe that murderers are mentally ill," she explains. "You see, I truly believe that murderers are mentally ill," she explains. "Their brains don't work like the rest of ours do. To deliberately kill someone requires crossing a profound boundary. Most of us couldn't do it. We couldn't even think about it. But they can. They do. Why? Because they're mentally ill. And fundamentally, as a society, I believe it is barbaric to kill people who are ill." -Elaine Whitfield Sharp. We can never truly know what goes on though another person's brain, it would be easier to keep them locked up for life, than to have them executed for