Was Anthony Graves Insane

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be on death row? Well, a man named Anthony Graves was in line to be lethally injected. Graves was living in Texas at the time and was framed for murdering six people, including Bobbie Davis, her daughter Nicole, grandchildren, Denitra, Lea’Erin, Brittany, and Jason. This incident happened in a small quiet town named Somerville, a town in between Austin and Houston. This mass murder was very bizarre since it was a small population of just over one thousand people. Graves was found guilty two years after he was arrested, he is charged with capital murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Graves swore he was innocent, but a friend of his Robert Earl Carter testified against him saying Graves

It wasn’t just a relaxing stay in his cell for 18 years. It was much more agonizing than a comfortable cell. His story in prison can be described as a comparison to hell, while slowing dwelling into madness along with other inmates besides him. What is more tortuous is that Graves knew that he is a free man, he knew that he was not suppose to belong there. For nearly twenty years he lived in a small dark cell, which many people could have lost hope but he did not give up and always thought positively, which eventually paid off. Graves did not request any publicity after his release nor bash the system about their mistakes, but did mention on how terrible prison is and how it affects people psychologically. Graves recalled how he was able to observe his fellow inmates plunge into a psychotic madness. Such as, prisoners put into solitary confinement started to act in abnormal behaviors, Behaviors that are not only mentally damaging but physically as well. Graves observed other inmates performing self inflicting injuries and physically harming others as well. His flashback of an inmate gouging the eyes out of another inmate, whom as well had performed devious act on others is traumatizing for anyone to see. Graves recalled that he remembers hearing loud piercing screams from inmates losing their minds and the feeling of isolation can dehumanize themselves. A person will eventually completely lose their emotions and become a shell of a person they once was. Graves noted, that there should be a reform on how solitary confinement should addressed when there is a need to separate a dangerous prisoner from the general population. He believes that there should be a system of policies and regulations that should be carried out in court before putting an inmate into solitary confinement. He claims that the majority of inmates in solitary confinement observes their lives is hopeless and