Death Penalty

 Today, I am going to introduce the interview with a person who is a mosther of death row inmate. A Mother’s Grief: Interview with Mary Stennett Sellers, Mother of Death Row Inmate Matthew Puckett who was convicted for murder and executed by the state of Mississipi in 2012. Mary Stennett Sellers was the mother of him.  - "Before Matt's arrest, did you believe in the death penalty? (Arpin, Jamie, 2019)" She answers that she has never really thought of the death penalty because it was irelevet from her life and she had never thought if she is for or against it. Although she sometimes sees the report of the execution of criminals, she never really registered. She has thought of the victim's family's feelings but did not have any idea of thikng about the convicted's family.  - "When a person is imprisoned — even more so when they are put on death row — people view their families as somehow responsible as well. Did you experience that? In what ways? (Arpin, Ja

  5 pm Execution witness arrive. Any people such as journalists, victim's family, or the prisoner's family/loved ones are allowed to watch the execution. They enter the room and told to be quiet.  6pm - 8 pm It is a time for the last walk for the prisoner. Times are different depending on the state. They have to walk from the death hoouse to the execution room. Most of the prisoners manage to walk by their own feet for a few steps, they are still srounded by 5 guards. 15 minutes before.. This is the time when the lethal injection is being prepared.  Minutes before.. The curtains between the room for execution and the witness room are drawn, and the prisoner is allowed to give their final statements. "But not all States allow long - or any time at all. Kentucky grants two minutes, while Pennsylvania only allows inmates a written statement - the time for talking is done. (Mirror, 2020)" Time for execution The straps on the chair are put around the prisoner, and their li

 8 pm  This is the time when all visitors banned from now. Chaplain and guards are the only people who are around. It is the time when also staff in the execution chamber have to test the equipment. In the US, lethal injections are used for execution. They make sure that straps on the guerny can hold the prisoner.  10:30am Final lunch. Although it is still in the morning, the prisoner has been awake for 6 hours. They get to have a last lunch. They are given simple prison food.  3:30 pm Dressing for execution. The kind of clothes they are given to wear is smarter than usual prison clothes. Before, they put the clothes on, they have time to shower as well. 4:00 pm This is the time for the final meal. Unlike the other meals, the prisoners can write down what they like to eat. Furthermore, there is a budged for how much they can be spent. Some states have the budget for $15. The final meal is the first meal they get to choose in decades because they had been in prison for average of 20 yea

 9 pm  Now the prisoner is inside the death house, they will be watched until their execution. In the death house, the prisoner has their own cell with a toilet, bed, desk and shower. Many guards say that this is the time when prisoners are desperate to take their own life. Many of them cannot sleep and rest that night, rather, they use the time to reflect on their lives. 4:30 am This is the time of final wake up call. Most prisoners are woken up this early so that they have time for any last minute petitions for a stay of execution or solving other legal issues. After than they get to spend time with their loved ones and their family. There is also a desk and a phone in the cell, and many of them speand this time writing down messages and calling someone. However, the guard dials the numbers. Reference https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/countdown-execution-final-24-hours-18832619

I am sure that a lot of people now know that the moethods of executions. But what about the process of the execution? Where are the sentenced ciminals actually get executed? Do they get to know the date? What about their family? Do they face the execution of their own family? Let's go deep into this toppic. - Final 24 hours of death row inmates in the U.S. - Death row inmates spend an average of 20 years in prison, waiting for the execution date. When it is their final hours until the execution day, they have to follow a very specific routine and spend time with a terrifying precision.  "Dr Allen Ault, former director of corrections, Georgia, has presided over five executions. He said: "The policy book prescribes a schedule that's hour by hour and even minute by minute - everything you do with the inmate, everything you do in the executin chamber, the way you handle witnesses and the victim's family. "The routine you go through is exactly the same." (Lav

Capital punishment actually has a longer history than people imagine. Historical records show that people in the most ancient times even utilized methods of punishing criminals or wrongdoers.   “A life for a life” has been one of the most basic concepts for dealing with crime since the start of recorded history"(crime museum, 2021). Today, I am going to introduce some of the early forms of capital punishment and examples. Early forms of death penalty was made to punish the criminal slowly, so the person can feel the pain until they breath their last. Types of tourtures were different depending on what kind of crime they committed. For examples, law breakers were " put to death by stoning, crucifixion, being burned at the stake, and even slowly being crushed by elephants"(crime museum, 2021). Some other methods in the ancient times were, bites by snakes, devouring by animals, tearing apart by animals and trampling by horses. Later, the soceities started to realize that th