Bart Whitaker is a man who planned to kill his entire family. He ended going through with this plot, killing his brother and mother, while leaving his father shot in the arm. After a few years he was convicted of murder and put on death row. Forwarding to 2018, he was supposed to be put to death by lethal injection. But a near thirty minutes came before his execution came, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot granted him clemency, and lessened his sentence to life in prison with no parole. He felt as his sentencing was too cruel, knowing that he wasn’t the actual person who gunned his family down at the scene. Clemency for people on death row doesn’t occur too often, but now people are beginning to feel as the death sentence is too harsh. Many people also believe that the death penalty shouldn’t exist because there are people in our world with mental illnesses and disabilities, which judges and lawyers take advantage of when convicting people of such crimes. “Such disorders often heighten the possibility of a wrongful conviction or death sentence because the accused does not have access to resources to properly navigate the justice system. A civilized society forfeits its moral authority by executing people with mental or intellectual disabilities”. There is also a very high risk that a person that is convicted of the death sentence can be falsely accused and really be innocent the entire
Bart Whitaker is a man who planned to kill his entire family. He ended going through with this plot, killing his brother and mother, while leaving his father shot in the arm. After a few years he was convicted of murder and put on death row. Forwarding to 2018, he was supposed to be put to death by lethal injection. But a near thirty minutes came before his execution came, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot granted him clemency, and lessened his sentence to life in prison with no parole. He felt as his sentencing was too cruel, knowing that he wasn’t the actual person who gunned his family down at the scene. Clemency for people on death row doesn’t occur too often, but now people are beginning to feel as the death sentence is too harsh. Many people also believe that the death penalty shouldn’t exist because there are people in our world with mental illnesses and disabilities, which judges and lawyers take advantage of when convicting people of such crimes. “Such disorders often heighten the possibility of a wrongful conviction or death sentence because the accused does not have access to resources to properly navigate the justice system. A civilized society forfeits its moral authority by executing people with mental or intellectual disabilities”. There is also a very high risk that a person that is convicted of the death sentence can be falsely accused and really be innocent the entire