Botched up Executions by warlady21

I NEVER supported Executions. A Just killing is still killing in my mind. And before DNA testing became more sound, innocent people were killed. I like to read Articles about how people are able to come out of Death Row, but I wondered if they ever messed up executions. I found this site and discovered a horrable truth. No matter how much time has passed, during executions, no matter HOW gentle they THINK it is, one mess up and it causes incredible pain to the criminal.

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My mother said something that stuck with me:

“I do not approve of death sentencing. If I had it my way, I would put them in a room with barely visible light, a tiny window, and lock them away from humanity for 6 years, then put them in another part of the prison and make them do difficult labor for the rest of their misirible lives.”

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Aportion and Executions are diffrent in…well…one way…

Aportion: Killing a life before it has a chance to get going.

Exicutions: THe killing of someone that has done a horrable deed.

other than that they are both incredibly wrong.

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Well thank God for crime labs. Because of DNA tests and chemical investigations, an innocent person on death row might have a strong chance on being freed.

Example: about….20 years ago, a black man was arrested for rapeing and murdering a white woman. The man, we’ll call Mr. X, was identifide from a group of other black men that look almost like him. When they tested his blood with the blood found at the crime scene, it matched his….as well as 40% of the black men of that population. He was put away for 20 years on death row, the only thing keeping him alive were retrial after retrial. Because of the crime labs, they took that DNA used and found that it WASN”T him. So Mr. X went freed.

Not just him, but up to 30 so far…I believe since 2003 but i’m not sure, were announced Innocent or at least retrialed.

and about texas….they were the first to use the electric chair I believe, so….yeah, we Texans own guns and we love to kill.

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[quote author=der Wandersmann link=topic=833.msg2690#msg2690 date=1200411614] Didn’t you say you were from Michigan? [/quote]I am. But I was born in Texas. I lived there uintil I was two, but I developed my taste for blood before I could even walk. heh.

And I agree with you KK.

Ok, I had a page to the link of this article, but my computer kicked me off and Now I can’t get the page. Apparently, up until 1990 (Possibly a little sooner) IQ and mental illnesses did not apply in setencing. Meaning, if someone who’s mind couldn’t understand right from wrong and killed someone without understanding WHY it was wrong, the person was exicuted. Now, your IQ has to be at a certain low point if you want to advoid the death sentence. I beleive you need an IQ of 65 and below before you can do an Insanity plea. If anyone can find me a similer article, I can conferm this.

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All I’m asking is, what’s wrong with life in prison? Or at least 40 to 50 years in prison for murder. By then, they can’t harm a fly and they are forced to do hard labor inside of there.