Essay On Harlem Harold

Essay prompt: Each year, Texas executes more inmate on death row than any US state. However very few people know and/or remember who these people are or the specifics of what took place that led to their death sentence. Your job is to write about one inmate currently on death row.

Lewis, III, Harlem Harold on death row

+Lewis, III, Harlem Harold is a black male on death row for the murder of two white males in Harris county Houston, Texas. The one of the two victims that was murdered was a police officer Jimmie Norman and the other was a local business man Terry Taylor. He was charged with capital murder for the murdering of a police officer and a bystander

Harold was born on July 5th 1991 in Houston, Texas. His ethnicity background is black.

but instead of Harold doing what the officer had told him to do, he brought out his fire arm a .350 caliber handgun from his car and shot officer Norman within close distance in the head.

Upon seeing the ongoing situation, a bystander Terry Taylor came to give help to the injured officer but was also shot in his head which caused his imminent death. Several police officer showed up to the scene and was interchanging gunfire with Harold. Harold was soon shot down by a bullet and was rushed to the hospital for medical. During Harold’s trial, he showed no emotion to whether he felt what he had done was wrong.

Jimmie Deveril Norman was one of the victims of the murder, he was 53 years of age. He was born on November17, 1959 in Dallas, Texas. He was married to his wife Mitzie Norman for 31 years and has a son Daniel Norman. His family said he loved his job as a police officer very much. Officer Norman was a law enforcement officer for 29 years and he spent 23 years as an officer in the city of

He also won the coach of the year in 2010 for guns and horses football game. He was known to be kind and selfless.

The second victim was Terry Taylor. He was a bystander and a person that was trying to help a fallen officer but was also killed. Terry Taylor was 66 years of age. He was a retired veteran of the force for 24 years. He owned a car body shop which his family members say he loved very much. He was a husband, a father and a grandfather.

In my opinion, I think capital punishment is right because it removes hardened criminal from society to keep citizens safe, which means when they are dead or sentence to death penalty they cannot harm anyone in the society. But when they are either given jail time to serve, they might or might not see what they did wrong and go back to their old ways when their jail time is up. Although, in certain situation it is not. For example, murder can be committed through self-defense, mental illness, etc. and that does not justify a person to be put on death. innocent people might be given death penalty and when that act is carried out, later the truth is revealed that he or she is innocent, they cannot be brought back to life again and no amount of money or apologies