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EthanSingerFirstEssay 3 - 23 Mar 2021 - Main.EthanSinger
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| | | Daniel Colwell is one example. Suicidal, but afraid to kill himself, he killed two people in a parking lot so that he would receive the death penalty. At trial, he told the jurors that he would break out of prison and torture their loved ones if he was not sentenced to death. | |
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< | Stories like the Colwell's, where someone kills others solely for the right to state-assisted suicide, are rare. However, once one is convicted and facing life in prison, utilizing the right to state-assisted suicide is not rare at all. | >
> | Stories like Colwell's, where someone kills others solely for the right to state-assisted suicide, are rare. However, once one is convicted and facing life in prison, utilizing the right to state-assisted suicide is not rare at all. | | | Timothy McVeigh, the man who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, decided against appealing his sentence of death, explaining that he would rather be put to death than spend the rest of his life in prison. He is not alone is his thinking. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, at least 149 defendants have exercised their right to state-assisted suicide, declining to appeal their death sentences in order to eliminate any chance that they would instead by sentenced to life. In many cases these defendants refused the right to counsel, asked for the death penalty before sentencing, or wrote to judges requesting death to ensure that their right would not be taken away from them. These volunteers make up about 10% of all executions. |
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