The Barbarity of the Death Penalty (Pt.2) by Christopher

I’ve asked those on death row terribly difficult questions and received candid answers.

I know men who were once on death row. Men whose sentences were commuted to life in prison by a past governor that time has since forgotten. I sit and eat with them in the chow hall and I see them daily in my unit.

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The Barbarity Of The Death Penalty (Pt.1)

I’ll never forget the first time I realized that someone in my world of incarceration was being put to death and the way I felt.

By Christopher Monihan

When I was at close security, which is Ohio’s penitentiary level one half stage removed from Maximum, there was a palpable sense of awareness amongst us prisoners whenever there was an execution.

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