st is a story of a man named John Evans. It was taken from a website sponsored by The American Civil Liberties Union. The second source is from “Rotten.Com.” This is about the botched electrocution of Allen Lee Davis. Both of these sources are graphic. It is suggested that you not look at them if you do not believe you can handle it.Not only is capital punishment, by electric chair, unethical it is also inhumane. Nothing is solved by killing someone because they killed another person. It is just committing a murder like the murder that the suspected convict committed. Sister Helen Prejean states in her novel Dead Man Walking: “I can scarcely imagine how shameful it must be – and so public – for a family member to be killed by the state” (99; ch. 5). This shows how Prejean felt about the electric chair in whole. No matter what, how could you lose a family member to the state. Especially when they are murdered by the state. What if the person is innocent? As Gov. George Ryan said: “I cannot support a system, which, in its administration, has proven so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state’s taking of innocent life” (qtd. in Johnson). This brings along another point. If an innocent person is given the electric chair, it is irreversible. There have been several cases where innocent people have been executed. As stated on the site sponsored by The American Civil Liberties Union a man was mistakenly executed:In 1992, Roger Keith Coleman was executed in Virginia despite widely publicized doubts surrounding his guilt and evidence that pointed to another person as the murderer –– evidence that was never submitted at his trial. Not until late in the appeal process did anyone take seriously the possibility that the state was about to kill an innocent man, and then efforts to delay or nullify his execution failed. Coleman's case ...
