After watching the movie "Dead Man Walking", I got a better understanding of the death penalty. Throughout the movie there are very clear reason why some people are for the death penalty and why others may be against it.
I am actually for the death penalty. Someone charged with first degree murder should be put to the death because of their actions. In the movie, Matthew Ponsulate and an accomplice commit a double murder and rape a young woman. The movie shows that if you have money and can provide a good defense for yourself than you can be acquitted of murder, just like Matthew Ponsulate's accomplice. I think that both of them should have received the same consequences.
Some people say it doesn't make much sense to use capital punishment just because someone has killed another human being. They say that it is almost like condoning death by killing these criminals. I don't believe any of that. They"re pretty much saying it's "OK" to murder people and commit other serious crimes. Their only consequences are sitting in a jail the rest of their lives where they have a warm place to stay and food provided for them, when some of these criminals probably never had any of that to begin with. Not only that, someone who has been given a life sentencing could actually leave after 25-35 years on good behavior. They are let back out in society where they could commit these crimes all over again. If we used capital punishment it would eliminate this possibility. Over time, we have found evidence that proves innocent people were put to death. Even if that one mistaken person out of a hundred criminals were killed, many more lives could still possibly be saved by making sure the other ninety-nine cannot attack again.
Many families have been lost and torn apart because of murder. Families of the victims will never get to see them graduate from high school or college. They will never get to see them get married and grow up to have beautiful families.
-Contact Death Penalty Focus. ... -Start a Death Penalty Focus chapter at your school. ... -Attend national conferences on death penalty organizing. ... Death Penalty Focus can help you find many excellent speakers. ... Some suggestions include: Dead Man Walking, The Life of David Gale, The Green Mile, Return to Paradise, Chicago -Ask your students to debate both sides of the issue. ...
J-21: Dead Man Walking 1. While viewing Dead Man Walking, I had very mixed feelings. ... I do not believe, though, that the film changed my overall opinion on the Death Penalty. 2. ... It confirmed my belief that the Death Penalty should be intact, although I did somewhat fear Matt's innocence. 3. I thought the film showed a strong bias against the death penalty. ...
What are causes for putting the death penalty on someone? ... I am still unsure of how I stand on the issue of the death penalty. ... This does not support the death penalty in any way. ... In the movie Dead Man Walking it was obvious that Matthew Poncelet committed the murder of the boy yet I still was not certain that I would want him to die. ... Cases like his make me go against the death penalty. ...
Dead Man Walking The movie "Dead Man Walking" brought up some important questions. ... As well as if the death penalty is a appropriate and just punishment for a crime. ... All they wanted was to see the man that killed their children dead. ... My opinion on the death penalty is kind of complicated. I believe in the death penalty in certain situations. ...
I believe that Dead Man Walking was a very emotional movie.In this movie we can see the hatred and sadness of the family.The movie also showed how the families' hatred did not go away even after Matthew was executed. ... This movie also showed how the death penalty is biased on those who are poor. Matthew's partner in the crime received life in prison because he had a better lawyer while Matthew received the death penalty. ... So what I think and learn from the movie is that the death penalty is a cruel and wrong way of solving crimes. ...
In the novel Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, was asked to correspond with Pat Sonnier, a man sentenced to die by electric chair for the murder of two teen- agers, which he did not commit. Dead Man Walking, gives a moving account of her spiritual journey as she became knowledgeable about our system of capital punishment through her involvement in the lives and deaths of several convicted murderers, their families, the families of their victims and the people whose job it is to carry out executions. ... Throughout the novel, Sister Helen quotes Albert Camus extensi...
Near Reeds Spring, Missouri, a 69-year-old man, the man's wife, and their 19-year-old paraplegic grandson were walking along a path. ... If this man were to be put to death, it would not deter other criminals from killing. According to James McCloskey, writer of "The Death Penalty: A personal View", the death penalty is a failure as a deterrent, because those who commit crimes that deserve the death penalty are often so irrational that even the prospect of death doesn't deter them. ... If you are dead you cannot kill anyone. ... Smoke is often seen coming from the head of the de...
Dead Man Walking A question that lingered in my mind after watching Dead Man Walking was, "Is it morally just to put a criminal to death in retribution for their crime?" ... I think all the prisoners on death row are in desperate need of someone to talk to. ... Most people when asked about their feelings on the death penalty take one side or the other. ... The answer lies in reducing violence, not causing more death. ... I do not believe that the death penalty can ever be justified, because I do not think it is right to kill a person in order to get revenge. ...
DEAD MAN WALKING Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a Catholic nun who exemplifies the compassion of Jesus in her work with death row prisoners. ... In the anguished minutes before this "dead man" walks to the execution chamber, she assures him that "Christ is here." ... A truly emotional and heart wrenching film, Dead Man Walking was an excellent movie because it portrayed the feelings of both the families of the victims and the murderer himself. ... Dead Man Walking also showed how the death penalty could be biased against the poor. ... The deat...