Capital Punishment

Capital punishment/Death penalty = dødsstraf

 

Death row = dødsgangen

 

Methods

  • Electric chair
  • Lethal injection
  • Hanging
  • Firing squad(skyde folk)

 

For Against
    • You cannot change a killer
    • Cheaper
    • Revenge
    • An eye for an eye
    • Ok if you are sure of guilt
      • Might kill innocent people
      • Forget and forgive/turn the other check
      • Society is no better if it kills people
      • Possible to change a person
      • Should suffer in jail

 

 

 

The execution of Richard Cobb

 

Executed:

  • Richard Cobb
  • Beunka Adams

 

Victims:

  • Nikki – survived
  • Candace – survived
  • Kenneth – Died

 

The crime

  • Robbery
  • Kidnapping
  • Rape
  • Murder
  • Richard and Beunka robed a shop, and then took the threes victims to a forest, where they shot them
  • After they shot them they kicked them, to make sure that they were dead
  • Nikki and Candace weren’t dead, and they ran to a farm, where they got help

 

Nikki

  • Raped by Beunka Adams
  • Nikki had decided to forgive Richard if he begged for forgiveness, but he didn’t
  • The last person Richard saw before he was executed
  • Nightmares
  • Big scar on her shoulder
  • Has got a family now, a husband and a daughter

 

The victims family

  • Nikki’s mother is angry, and would not forgive, wants the executions to be in public

 

Richard

  • Executed by lethal injection(in Texas)
  • Didn’t ask for forgiveness
  • Regrets
  • 19 when he committed the crime
  • 29 at the execution
  • Mentally unstable
  • He couldn’t sleep
  • He spoke to her mom the day before his execution, and told her that it wasn’t her fault

 

The day of the execution

  • Demonstration outside the prison, by people against the death penalty
  • Talked to his lawyer, they tried to appeal it
  • Possible to get a telephone call + see the family
  • The journalists are informed

 

Facts

  • 45 people executed in USA every year

 

 

Troy Davis executed after stay denied

  • He said that he was innocent and many people supported him
  • He spent 22 years on death row
  • Method: lethal injection
  • Accused of killing an off-duty police officer
  • In Georgia
  • The family of the victims were sure that he was guilty
  • Killed even though there was a lot of doubt
  • seven witnesses recanted their testimony, a person(suspected) confessed
  • Former president Jimmy Carter, the Pope, a former FBI director, other celebrities, politicians, students and so on supported Troy Davis
  • His execution were postponed four times

 

Anthony Haynes

  • The case
    • Killed an of duty police officer(Kent Kincaid)
    • 1998 – Anthony was 19 years old
    • Took place in Haston, Texas
    • Anthony and some friends were doing armed robberies
    • They hit Kincaid’s car/windshield, and he followed them
    • Stopped the car and Anthony shot Kincaid once, thought he had a gun
  • The victim + his family
    • Kent Kincaid
    • Family confused and frustrated, want to move on
    • Had a wife + two daughters
    • His wife saw him getting shot
  • Anthony
    • 13 years on death row
    • 32 years today
    • Trusted in God, said that God hat told him that he wouldn’t get executed
    • Execution postponed
    • Regrets what he did
  • Anthony’s family
    • Supportive
    • Religious
    • Father close to his son
    • Father as a witness(should witness the execution of his son)
    • Prepared for the execution – funeral
    • Hope for the best, prepared for the worst
  • Before the execution
    • Case was appealed
    • The execution was postponed by supreme court
    • The case was revieved

 

 

Capital Punishment – opsummering

  • The Green Mile
    • A movie about life on death row in 1935
    • Paul Edgecombe, prison guard, caring, a nice and kind person, believed that John Coffey was innocent
    • John Coffey, had a “gift”, could cure living creatures  and them bring them back from the death
    • John Coffey were accused of killing two little girls
    • The movie is about innocence, life on death row, and humanity of prisoners
  • Richard Cobb
    • Richard Cobb and Beunka Adams
    • Robbed a store, took three victims(to women and a man), raped the two women, killed the man
    • One of the victims were Nikki, who we meet in the documentary
    • Richard didn’t ask for forgiveness
    • He was 19 when he did the crime
    • Mentally unstable
    • Executed by lethal injection(in Texas)
  • My Sons on Death Row
    • The two brothers Ernest and Bobby
    • Ernest had a high IQ, a good job, successful
    • Bobby had a low IQ
    • Ernest, was a contract killer/hired a contract killer
    • Bobby, killed his wife
    • The two brothers have never lived the American dream, because they were on death row
    • Mrs. Downs, the mother
    • Their father were drunk and violent, he didn’t visit them in prison
  • Anthony Haynes
    • Killed an of duty police officer(Kent Kincaid)
    • 1998 – Anthony was 19 years old
    • Trusted in God, said that God hat told him that he wouldn’t get executed
    • He was sorry for what he had done
    • The execution was postponed by supreme court(he  got a stay, because his defenders hadn’t defended him properly)
  • Troy Davis Death
    • The story is told by Billy More
    • Shot an old man in 1974
    • Confessed
    • Wrote letters to the victims family, asking for forgiveness, they forgave him and his execution got cancelled, got life sentence instead
    • Released in 1992
    • The difference between him and Troy Davis were, that Billy were innocent but he didn’t get executed, while Troy Davis got executed even though there were so much doubt in his case
  • Troy Davis Executed
    • Accused of killing an off-duty police officer
    • A lot of doubt
    • Claimed he was innocent
    • A lot of people supported him, fx a former president
    • Killed anyway
    • Method: lethal injection