Chilling Execution Tapes
I am sitting here with chills going up and down my spine listening to Democracy Now. On today’s broadcast they play never before heard recordings of executions. They are extremely chilling and extremely frightening, extremely difficult to listen to. Just the simple fact that they are carrying out a murder an execution, something that people would go to jail for and possibly even sentenced to death for, they are doing it legally.
Ending a life has never before sounded so chilling and sterile. It’s more gruesome than seeing or hearing a very bloody movie. The precision, the required witnesses and of course the one who’s life is ending strapped to a chair staring out at onlookers who are simply staring back.
5 minutes pass and the condemmed (as they call the man) is murdered. “Very smooth operation, get us another one.” Last words of the first tape. They also talk about a problem with the execution, something popping, the primary eyewitness making the recording believed it to be a bolt of lightning (this was an electric chair execution).
These tapes are extremely chilling and very upsetting to me. It’s disgusting to think that our government can play God and choose to end a person’s life and by such barbaric methods at that. However, no matter how you murder a person at the end of the day it’s still murder.
Earlier this evening I was watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. “A dead man can’t learn from his mistakes”, a quote from Captain Sisko. I’ve been saying that exact same phrase my entire life and to this day and into the future I will continue to say it.
I am extremely thankful that Troy Anthony Davis was given another 90 days to live. I hope and pray that they will commute his execution. If our President of the United States can commute the prison sentence of Lewis Libby because the President thinks that 30 months in prison is too harsh, then Troy Anthony Davis and every single person on death row should have their execution sentences commuted. Murder, and that is what I am going to continue to call it, no more strikethroughs to be politically correct. Murder is very permanent.
There was another tape played on today’s broadcast of Democracy Now. I don’t know that I can recommend anyone to listen to these because they are extremely chilling, but, you should listen to them if nothing more than to help set a fire. Things need to change. Abolish the death penalty, now!
Democracy Now for Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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