Hello, I am inmate Madison Neill. I am a senior in college studying Political Science with a minor in Writing. One thing I enjoy doing is listening to my favorite podcast, Crime Junkie. This podcast talks about not common criminal cases, usually cold cases, and sometimes cases of injustice. Occasionally they will discuss how a person was put on trial for a crime they didn't commit, and the fight the person went through to clear their name. That got me thinking, how many people are currently sitting on death row because of an injustice of the judicial system. That thinking further spiraled into who is on death row that simply shouldn't be there, and how many innocent people have been executed because of a bias prosecutor or judge.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am not actually an inmate in prison. However, I will be shedding some light on inmates who are in prison and are on death row. In this blog, I will discuss the issues surrounding death row and why I think it should no longer be used as a solution in the justice system. Not only are there humanitarian issues, such as the question of if the practice is human and how things such as lethal injection can do more harm than good, but there are also injustices in the system. There are people who are innocent that are being sent to death, people who may have committed a crime, but not a crime that warrants death, and even inmates that abuse the system.
I know what you're thinking, how could inmates possibly abuse the death row system? Why would they even want to? Later in the blog I will be discussing a man named James Robertson, who murdered in order to achieve better conditions in prison. I am not saying there are many inmates who do abuse the system, but it does happen. They decide that the conditions they are currently facing are not good, and think that death row can offer them a better life until their death.
Hopefully after reading this blog you will understand the desire to do away with, or at least severely limit, the death row option in our justice system. I am not looking to change your mind, and I am aware there are bad people in the world that may deserve this punishment, but I am asking you to open your mind to the possibility that the death row system needs major reform. So grab your orange jumpsuit, find your bunk, and join me on the mission to reform not only death row, but the American justice system.
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