Marco Allen Chapman
Once again I have chosen to talk about a death penalty case. I know there are fierce people on both sides of this subject, I just do not happen to be one of them. I have often said that I am neither for, nor against the death penalty. I do believe there are cases that warrant it, but only those in which there is no question in whether the person is not only guilty, but that that conclusion was come to fairly. I also believe that in decades past that courts were too fast to carry out the death penalty. We have found too many, and one is too many in my opinion, of people who were executed only to discover later were innocent. Well.... you cannot ever fix that wrong! With that being said, I feel as if we do not do them fast enough today. There are those who are very pro-death penalty who will argue that as a tax payer they do not feel as if we should house inmates on life sentences and should speed up the process. First, let me point out that Texas used to execute so often t...