If you want to hear first-hand information and facts about the death penalty, where better to go than to the convicted killers themselves? While researching the death penalty, I was told to take a look at blogs by death row inmates. Two of my favorites are Deadman Talking and Meet Vernon. When I stumbled upon these blogs, I found myself unable to stop reading. Both men talk about life in prison and answer questions that readers have for them. Granted, it takes several weeks to hear back from them because prisoners are not given internet access, but you are able to communicate with them nonetheless. Reading these blogs makes me sympathetic for all of the prisoners on death row.
Not many can relate to these men, who are spending the rest of their lives in prison awaiting their execution. Blogging allows them to convey a message to the reader and to make others aware of their situation. Both Dean Carter and Vernon Evans are currently fighting and repealing their convictions as both claim to be innocent. One of the major downfalls of the death penalty is that innocent people are being executed. According to The Death Penalty by Hayley R. Mitchell, for every seven executions, one other prisoner on death row has been found innocent.
I strongly suggest you check out these blogs before you start any research, just to hear their point of view. Obviously if you heard a rumor, you would want to go to the person and ask them about it, right? These men should be punished, but not have their lives taken from them.
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