Ever since Arnold didnt give clemecy to Stan Tookie Williams I ask myself a lot of Questions... The Death from Tookie got my attetion to Death Row. Before my intrest was more for other topics then people who have gotten a death sentence. I dont know how to express my self .... This is a harsch topic I think. (to talk about life and death) But I also think it would be better for me to ask so i can understand why some things go so bad in life....

Should there be a death penelty? What do you think?

Why does someone sit so long before it happens?

Is that no a light torture for someone to know hes going die but not naturally?

Or does the person derserve to know when and only really guilty?


What happens after the execution?

Where does the Body go? Do the reletaves get to have a burrial for the person?

I am sorry if my questions are to personal or wrongley asked. I am 20 years old and been most of my life in Germany.
Thankyou for taking your time reading my questions.

Should there be a death penelty? What do you think? Of course not, its barbaric.

Why does someone sit so long before it happens? There are lots of appeals that DR inmates have. Thankfully

Is that no a light torture for someone to know hes going die but not naturally? DR is torture, no getting around that. To throw you in a cage, and tell you the exact day you are going to die is premeditated murder unlike any other

Or does the person derserve to know when and only really guilty?I dont understand this question :)


What happens after the execution?

Where does the Body go? Do the reletaves get to have a burrial for the person? Next of kin is responsible for funeral arrangements. If there is no next of kin, the person is buried at a prison cemetary

I totally agree, a certain no to the death penalty it is barbaric and has no place in this century at all, it equates to murder, albeit by the state but still murder however you look at it!

I understand that after an exectuion the body is sent to the undertakers and then the family can have a burial if there are any family members.

Sandy:(

I can only speak with certainty about the State of Texas, which allows family members to make private funeral arrangements if they wish and otherwise provides a "potter's field" burial for executed prisoners. I have been told that the funeral home in Huntsville which handles "arrangements" for prisons without families is really the bottom of the barrel, and not respectful of anyone's specific religious or spiritual beliefs.

I could be wrong, but I believe executed prisoners in some states are cremated if no one claims them. And in many states, they are buried within the prison grounds, on land which the public can never visit. It strikes me as a terrible sort of final humiliation, a gesture which stands for all time as a reminder that the state does not regard someone as being worthy of memory.

Tookie had a very big beautiful funeral in Los Angeles. There was a viewing the night before. I was very happy he got at least a respectful funeral.