I'm against the death penalty. I worked in the TN Dept. of Corrections for 10 1/2 years. I have seen men on death row go free after new evidence was found that proved there inocence. It would be just plain wrong to execute someone never knowing if they are guilty or not. I don't feel it's our right to determine if someone lives or dies. If our justice system was better I would reconsider. In states like mine, there are people on death row that had been sentenced under old laws years ago. Under some of these laws, you did'nt even have to commit murder. Just to have a participation in or gained knowledge of. They would get the death penalty. Even in some rape cases that did'nt even involve murder. TN's death penaty was abolished in 1969 and then reinstated in 1999. So my point is. The "Death Penalty" right or wrong. Should not bu used until the justice system is fixed. It works on who has (Money) and who has not. From ineffective council. To the worst of all. The the jury. We are only human and we were not at the crime. All we hear is what we are allowed to hear on a jury. There is always two sides to every story. Like I said, we are only human, we make mistakes. I could not live with myself if I was on a jury and sent someone to the chair then later to find they had been innocent.
As for my choice: Leathal injection. I have saw electrocutions and they are brutal. TN now has the choice of the chair or an injection.
