he world in quite a predicament. There is also the fact that the Texas penal system is corrupting the prisoners within its walls. The corruption contradicts the idea of prison. Prison’s basic duty is to change the hardened criminal so he may be able to be placed back in society at some point. How can you give the death penalty to a group of criminals like the Texas Seven when the penal system added to his corruption? Texas must believe that one can no longer be placed back into society. Why else would you play god and kill another human being. To kill someone else you must believe that they are no longer apart of your race. A group of friends is a perfect example of this theory. In a group of friends you are tightly knit. Nothing usually can break you apart. You can easily express yourself toward them. What would have to happen for you to no longer talk to a friend that was within that group? One would have to believe that he no longer belonged in that group. That he can no longer exist within that group or society, and you cannot express yourself freely. As you can see the death penalty is parallel to this example. Texas is sublimely saying that a person can no longer exist safely in an environment of civilized human beings. Therefore that person is no longer recognized as a human being. Can one truly state that you are no longer a human being? Furthermore can anybody say that another is no longer a part of the human race? Well, lets look at society as a whole. Society is made up of civilized human beings that can think. “I think therefore I am.” Well if society is a group of civilized humans that think, one must say that a person that does not exist in society is not civilized, and therefore cannot think. As of now the Texas Seven are fighting extradition charges back to Texas. The brutal court battle is for the reason that Texas is seeking the death penalty while Colorado is not. As one can clearly see, the death ...
