The death penalty is always on the news. With court official's failing to agree on a sentence for suspects, they get to escape the prison sentence and get the much easier way out also known as the Death Penalty. Meanwhile, the prosecution continues its slowing time toward the suspects execution–after, excruciating delays the case is appealed to various courts. The U.S. Supreme Court has already refused the last challenge, for example the execution of spree killer Karla Faye Tucker, who on Feb. 3 became the first woman to receive Texas’s lethal injection–unless, Gov. George W. Bush decides not to sign her a death warrant. Bush faces a really big decision, and so may take some comfort in the knowledge that signing a death warrant turned out to be a problem too, he said, “You do not know how hard it is to let a human being die”,and “when you feel that a stroke of your pen will save him.” Lincoln’s doubts had nothing to do with the legality of this punishment; as he read it, the Constitution gave him the …show more content…
The first offender I found had murdered two Chicago police officers; Second offender murdered a Chicago police officer by running him over with an automobile; Third offender beat and 86 year old woman to death with her walking cane; Fourth offender shot and killed four people during a drug-related robbery; Fifth offender had killed his girlfriend’s 16-month-old daughter by starving her and leaving her to freeze to death in the cold; Sixth offender shot an 86-year-old man to death during a robbery; Seventh offender had dressed as a priest and murdered an 81-year-old widow by shooting her twice in the back of the head; Eighth offender, shot and killed one man and wounded another during a robbery; Ninth offender raped and killed a 34-year-old woman as she waited to catch a bus; Tenth offender shot and killed three people in an argument over