EXECUTION’S
It
takes only Nine months to be born
And a
whole life time to die.
No
matter how short it is.
You have been in this room for some time and Fear
has over taken you. Down the hall outside the door you can hear the echo of
foot steps coming for you. You know that when they arrive they are looking for
you. You have but a couple of minutes of life left. I never knew that the
breath of air felt so good to inhale.
This paragraph could be used in the last minutes
of a person in a book of fiction or fact about murder, the only problem is,
it’s all to real. This happens all to often to prisoners on death row. Is it
legal?? Yes, at least our LAWS say that it is. Is it ethical or moral?? NO.
It’s an act of vengeance right out the middle ages and even before the Bible,
it’s an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Just the process of an
execution makes all of us no better than the person that we execute. It’s even
worse when the person we execute is innocent, that, then makes animals of us
all. That has, all to often, been proven over the years gone by. Lord, there
but by the Grace of GOD go I.
So what then do we do with these, as some might
call them, “beasts of society” and others call them with Love in their hearts,
Fathers, Sons, Daughters and even Mothers.
This has been the question of our time. Carl
Chessman, the Red Light Bandit that some times raped his victims, was ask one
time whether he would take a life sentence if it was offered to him instead of
execution. He said no. I believe it was thirteen years that he fought his
execution and finally lost. In the mean time he wrote two books.
In thirteen years a man changes. His feelings
change, his idea’s change, the whole make up of a man or woman changes. Brain
cells change, the outer structure of his body his skin is shed , the memory is
not lost but his thinking or thoughts on life change. When they execute a
person after thirteen years it is not the same person. You might as well go out
on the street and grab some one to execute. He either gets more vicious or he
gets, as I would call it, more civilized. I could go on and on about the
Justice of the thing on whether it is right or wrong. I’m sure that the family
of the victims would have a lot to say about it. So I’ll now tell you another
true story. A man was waiting for his execution and he could hear them coming
for him. He knew that at any moment they would throw open the steel doors and
take him out to be executed. The guards opened the door and started reading. He
had been released not that he wasn’t guilty but because the family of the
victim had ask for his release. How much simpler can it get than that. A man
that was about to be beheaded is released back to the world and not because he
was innocent but because the Family of the victim ask that it be so. Yes; it
was
I’m not saying that all prisoners should have
this privilege. I wouldn’t say that a serial killer should be released or some
one that’s just vicious. What I am saying is that some murders should be
reviewed again after a number of years. Life is Precious and we as civilized
people shouldn’t just toss life aside as an old rage. There are prisoners now
in prison after forty years that even their guards, their Warden and the
Governor of the State at that time would like to parole them. But, as anything
else it’s politics.
Suggestion then:
That we put a stop to all executions. At least
it will give those that are innocent a chance to prove it and those that are
innocent that can’t prove it some sort of life.
I can’t say that being in Prison is normal and I
can’t say that it beats death.
GOD-BLESS
Frank D. Woodruff
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Juvenile/Adult Prison Reform
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Boy Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Adult Prison Parole