The Comfortable Chair

I was in the garden again. The damp soil running through my fingers. The water soaking through the knees of my jeans. I weeded around my beans, feeling the dirt under my fingernails and in the creases of my palms. My first few days here I just watched, unsure of the unspoken rules that hovered over the garden. Then, one day, I walked over to a girl. She was almost my age and tended to 2 rows of lima beans. I don’t know if it was the way not only she but her plants seemed to tremble in the wind…

“A Jury of Her Peers”, published in 1927, written Susan Glaspell, is a short story based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack. The short story was originally written as a one-act play in 1916. In 1950, the short story then became an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Years to follow, in 1980 the short story became a short film that was nominated for an Academy Award. Growing up in a town that did not believe in women’s rights to employment and education, Glaspell still…

because he is a colored man. Even his own public defender tries to vindicate him by lowering him and calling him a “hog,” and asked “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.” (Gains 8) The defense attorney is stating that there is not even a need to execute Jefferson since he is inferior to a human being. As a result of this unfair treatment, Jefferson loses his dignity and sense of himself as a “man,”…

In 1989, the infamous Theodore Bundy took his last breath as he paid for every murder and rape he had ever committed. After years of terrorizing the nation, Bundy had finally been seized and sentenced to death by electric chair. The Los Angeles Times described the people standing outside the prison, where Bundy was executed, as joyous while “a few were shocked at the celebration that filled the chilly morning air” (latimes.com). This was only one execution that has sent the nation into a frenzy…

New York 's history of capital punishment goes back to colonial times, with the second most executions of any state from 1608 to 1972, after Virginia. Before the invention of the electric chair most executions were carried out by hanging, although other methods including burning at the stake, death by firing squad, and even the breaking wheel were used. Although there were inmates on death row until 2007, no execution has taken place since…

The death penalty is destroying the sanctity of the United States Justice system as we know it. The most common form of carrying out the death penalty is ineffective, the whole process of the death penalty is expensive and lengthy, and people simply don’t want it anymore. It is a barbaric way of treating criminals and is more of a burden than a benefit. There are other ways to treat terrible criminals that would keep them isolated and with no chance of escaping. The death penalty, as in any…

The electric chair has been continued to be in use since then up to the present day. “The electric chair was first made as a method to carry out the death penalty in Ohio in 1896 ... Today Nebraska is the only state that requires death by electrocution. Adopted in 1913, the electric chair has been used 15 times for the state, most recently in 1997” (Delfino and Day 16). The electric chair works a bit similar to when static shock occurs, but it is much…

concerned with the effects of punishment on learning” (Milgram, 1974). The teachers would recite a sequence of words. The learner would be expected to recall the words connected to each other. However, the learner is also secured tightly to an electric chair during this experiment.…

In today’s times, murderer’s actions are becoming more and more incohesive. They no longer commit just murder, but also crimes like theft, rape, or even torture. Things like this will continue to happen if nothing is done to stop them or deter them The death penalty is a humane way to punish the convicted and to alter the minds of people that would want to do the same. As early as the 1800s was the first actual recordings of the criminal justice system doing its job with capital punishment.…

The death penalty is a hard subject to talk about, it is used in some of the federal prisons in the United States. The death penalty, also called “Capital Punishment”, is a sentence no one wants to hear, not even the bravest of criminals. I personally agree with the death penalty just because I believe in the famous quote written in the bible “an eye for an eye.” I believe that the death penalty is a good way to get rid of criminals who do heinous and brutal crimes. In addition, the death…