Dead Man Walking Analysis

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Dead Man Walking

When watching Dead Man Walking I think you heard more views on way not to subject people to the death penalty. Some of the main reasons are that our justice system is not perfect we still sentence innocent people to death and once that happen it can never be undone. Plus because of the long process that occurs with this it cost a large amount of money to execute them then it would be to sentence them to life in prison. If you talk to some of the victims family member it doesn’t always give them satisfaction of the offender dying because they feel it a long processes and it creates more hardships then it worth and some family member do not make it to the day their executed. In addition to this, most religions feel that …show more content…

For about three years she live there to help people, to listen to their needs and to support them anyway she could. During her stay there she was going on a walk and there was a prison coalition offices close by and person that works there was looking for volunteer to write a member on death row and this is what started her passage in her life. This is what drove her to fight against the death penalty its where she seen and heard the hardships of life behind bars and how everything is done in the middle of the night because to everyone else their lives do not matter. She thought that all people deserved to be treated like humans. Because to Jesus every person is worth more than their worst act. You should not return hate with hate and if people really knew what went on behind the close door maybe they would think …show more content…

Because they have all loss some part of their life. It’s not easy to lose a love one no matter how the situation happen and when it does happen we all go through many steps. Those consist of one denial where we cannot believe this has happen and sometime we don’t want to talk to anyone, two angry where we attack all the people close to us and especial the one who hurt our love one we want them to pay with there life, three we blame our self as in was there something we could have done, four depression how are we going to live without them and get through life everyday knowing there no longer with us. Then finally accept that we cannot change things. Now when I look at this list I see that all involved are effect and we all have different ways of working through this and that ok because we need to be able to live with ourselves and everyone has to do what right in their eyes. With this said the family that loss their love one to such a terrible crime where they can no longer talk, watch them grow old or hold their love one. Matthew family because they can no longer see him on a regular base only on prison time. Plus I feel that in the end Matthew finely realized his loss of not being there for us brother and he seen what it was like for the others he hurt. In the end he may have finely found what the true meaning of love means and what forgiveness is all

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