Death Row

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. Since ancient times capital punishment has been a punishment for crimes like murder. Stoning, crucifixion, and drowning were old ways of carrying the death penalty out. Theses days some countries (the majority of the U.S.A., Iraq and others) say that they use more ‘humane’ ways of carrying out the death penalty. Theses include the electric chair, lethal injection and hanging. The death penalty in the U.K. has been abolished now since 1969 (1999 for treason and arson on a naval base). The last two people to be

‘Most of the participants said they had felt involved and committed. The research had felt "real" to them. One guard said, "I was surprised at myself. I made them call each other names and clean the toilets out with their bare hands. I practically considered the prisoners cattle and I kept thinking I had to watch out for them in case

The Death Row Phenomenon, better known as Death Row Syndrome, is a result of lack of motivation and human interaction in life.

Nowadays, when criminals are being convicted for acts like murder and other high terror threats, courts and jurors usually try to figure out if there’s a mental problem or disorder that contributes to the criminal’s reasoning. The history and transformation of American prisons since the eighteenth century has widely shaped the conception that an inmate’s sanity and their wellbeing should be taken into account with prison placement. The first prisons, realizations and shifts in the system throughout time, as well as the shift in thought have all contributed to this idea. Although, not all criminal’s mental health has a direct correlation to their crimes, the two go hand and hand when thinking about the incarcerated as a whole.

1. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, it now takes on average about 178 months (about 15 years) for an execution occurs.

You should be aware that there are only thirty-two states that practice and uphold the death penalty in the United States. Within the thirty-two state’s the two leading in execution’s are California and Texas. The most common contributing factor to inmates on death row is mental illness. Medical conditions known as mental illness comes in many different forms. There are categories that consist of insanity, intellectual Function, and mental illness. These categories effect behaviors that interfere with rational thought process and alter moods, feelings, and the ability to function on a daily basis. Mental illness’s such a Bi-Polar disorder, Post-traumatic-stress-disorder,

The prisoners will serve their sentences at this five-year-old institution or at Valley State Prison, the nation's second-largest women's prison, which recently opened across the street. The compounds occupy the tiny farm town of Chowchilla, where almond and alfalfa groves surround the 50,000-volt electrified fence. To the crop dusters above, the flat gray-and-peach buildings must look like a giant corrections butterfly, shielding up to 8,000 women in the 1,340-acre spread of its cinder-block wings.

It is a fearful thought to inmates being put on the death row, after serving many years to life in prison, trying to better themselves as a whole, that they will be executed for a crime they’ve committed decades before. Furthermore, isn’t prison more than enough for the inmates to endure. I guess all those years of suffering was for nothing. These inmates, instead of using them for work around the prison; giving them something to do, are put on death row; a list containing the names of inmates patiently waiting to be executed.

Great post! I just wanted to add to how long it actually takes for someone to be executed. Typically, an individual on death row spends over a decade waiting to be executed. Because of the of appeals process it extends the amount of time the inmate must await executions. Due to the extensive wait time a number of inmates never actually make it to execution they die of natural causes, suicide, or are killed by other inmates. However, without thorough appeals mistakes can be made and innocent people could be executed.

Enthusiastic advocates know that such miscarriages would undermine their cause. The average number has risen from six years to 16.5 on how long an inmate waits in order to be executed. Most prisoners will never be put to death. At the end of 2011 there were more than 3,082 (R.G.) prisoners put federal and state death row in America only, that same year 43 of them were executed.

“The appeals process in death penalty cases takes time to complete. Typically, a case may take between 6 to 10 years, but there are always exceptions. For instance, in Ohio, William Garner was put to death in July 2010. He was convicted in 1992 of murdering five children. In Texas prisoners have spent close to 25 years on death row before being executed”

Firstly, in the United States, prisoners may wait years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals, so you do lots of years in prison anyway. To clarify, the time between sentencing and execution has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989 and 1990 and a similar jump between 2008 and 2009. In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. You spend most of your life in prison before you actually get put

When an inmate is placed on death row, they time they spend in prison doesn’t matter to them. What matters is how many days are left till they are put to death. Inmates on death row, spend 23 hours alone in the cell. Some inmates are afraid of what will stop them from getting killed verse getting killed. They are very anxious and want the process to be over with. They are given about 3 minutes to give a statement. Inmates will try to fight their punishment but their chances are very slim. Sometimes the inmates will in vison themselves somewhere else, to deal with the emotions. They sometimes imagine what it is like to be killed. They are given a last meal.

Upon examination, one finds capital punishment to be economically weak and deficient. A common misconception of the death penalty is that the cost to execute a convicted criminal is cheaper than to place a convict in prison for life without parole. Due to the United States judicial system, the process of appeals,

“Even when there is no right of appeal from a particular court or tribunal, [the Court of Appeal] can exercise [its] powers of  ‘revision’ and quash the original court’s or tribunal’s order [based on] an error of law apparent [in] the record.” 1The Court of Appeal, if appropriate, also has the authority to issue a ‘stay order’ and suspend proceedings in a lower court until the revision application is heard and determined.