Death row

Originally Steven was handed a Death Sentence, in which he would have remained on death row until his execution date, fortunately, his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment with the potential for parole after ten years. Many years later, Steven was released from prison on parole in 1969, but he would remain a convicted felon for about five decades. For that same amount of time, he would remain known as the Rapist and murder of Lynne Harper. After his release from prison Steven, who was 24…

Equality on death row. Death row is a horrifying place to spend the rest of your life. Knowing how and the exact day you will die can be scary enough, but being in a 6’ by 8’ cell for the rest of your life can be terrifying. Woman only make up about 1.8% of the people on death row since 1976. Men and woman may be very different people in many ways but are more than capable of committing the same crime. Women may be viewed as the weaker sex, nurturers and even comforters however, that…

Texas State University has a wonder gallery every semester. This semester we have The Last Supper: 700 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates. This gallery is made by Julie Green. Green was inspired by a section in her local newspaper about the inmates last meal request before execution. Each meal request is a reflection of the diversity that can be found in every prison. Green Plans to extend her gallery and add fifty more plates every year until capital punishment is…

institution of death row is unreliable and financially illogical. The criminal justice system in America is not always accurate, and when the context of the death penalty is included, a terrible combination arises. Using data from the Death Penalty Information center, it is evident that the court does not always make the right call. “Since 1973, 156 people have been exonerated from death row… Since 1976, 1411 people have been executed” (Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row). 156 people…

where a convict was executed even though someone else had sent repeated letters stating that he had committed such crime and not the person in death row. Yet the no more further investigation was made, and the person was executed. What if the person was innocent? Have we killed people wrongfully? If so, doesn’t that make us just as bad as the criminals on death…

years on death row, Jonah Garrison is put to death by the electric chair for a murder he claims he did not commit. Whether Jonah committed the crime or not, he suffered the death penalty for the actions that had been committed. The officials that executed Jonah believed he did not commit the murder and that he was an innocent man. Jonah’s family is distraught by their loss while the prosecuting family, the family of the murdered victim, no longer believe that Jonah deserved the death penalty…

The death penalty has been used for thousands of years, dating all the way back to Hammurabi’s Code in the 1700s BC, which is most known for its famous line, “an eye for an eye”. It is still in use today, and is the subject of much controversy for a few main reasons. One, some people question the ethics of killing someone. Two, it costs an average of $90,000 more per year per prisoner to keep a prisoner on death row as opposed to a normal jail, according to Rone Tempest, award-winning author of…

The time from which the criminal is convicted to when he is executed is an enduring amount of time that is wasted. The federal and state death penalty system is a long and agonizing ordeal that with this bill could become a swift and smooth process. In a novel, published in 1980, it states, “there have been only three executions since 1976” (Sellin). Just in the state of California alone…

punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. The death penalty is a complex issue, and can understandably be argued from both sides, those opposing the death penalty, and those who feel capital punishment should still be an option. Capital punishment should be abolished because, people are capable of change, the penalty puts innocent lives at risk, and we pay millions for each death penalty case. Firstly, people are capable of change; in other words, the…

The death penalty is used for violent offenders who have been convicted of premeditated murder. The death penalty has many purposes. First, it serves as a way for prisons to clear out many of the violent offenders. Second, the death penalty provides safety for both the prison and society. Lastly, the cost to execute someone costs less than keeping someone in prison for life. The death penalty is used in 32 of our 50 states. Of those 32 states Pennsylvania is one of them. Texas is the leader in…