The Death Penalty System is Broken by Laura Walton (4)

Original Story: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/us/executions-dead-man-walking-nun/index.html

Sister Helen Prejean is, in my opinion, is one of the strongest woman in America. She has devoted the past 20 years to visiting and praying with death row inmates. The news story posted by CNN follows her battle against the judicial system with the increased amount of botched executions. Two years ago an inmate was given defective lethal injection that resulted in the death taking 2 hours and the man finally suffering from a fatal heart attack. After witnessing her first execution she realized that one dies almost a thousand times in that cell before actually being executed, and that’s not for the system to determine.

          This relates to U.S History as the Supreme Court, over the past few decades, have been changing their stance on certain high profile issues. It shows that over time, the American mindset bends depending on the views of those in high power. I don’t think that any government should have enough power to decide who should die or not.