Execution By Anna Quindlen Analysis

Since the time I read them, they never came out of my mind, and they grabbed my attention since I read their titles. “The Penalty of Death” by Henry Louis Mencken and “Execution” by Anna Quindlen, are the essay that affected me the most from the River Reader book. Maybe because I thought about the death penalty before, or maybe because their words affected me and my way of thinking. The thing that I am sure about that both of the essay touched my emotions and feelings in a way that let me never forgot them among the other texts. I think that the reason behind that is that they are about a human case and something true that is happening in our world. These two texts remind me of a documentary movie I saw in the past, and the authors words let me related the texts with the movie. The movie was about a group of people who are considered as criminals, living in the jail waiting for their execution day. They were suffering a lot till while they are waiting their time, and when the day of one of them came. There was a demonstration by a group of people outside the jail standing together holding
So I designed it according to my view on this topic and after a deep thinking about what I read in the texts. I realized that I am against the methods that are used in the death penalty such as what was mentioned in the book, like the lethal injection and electric chair. This is simply because they are so painful, violate the humans’ rights and people will never get what they want from the death penalty. However, the truth cannot be hidden that the criminals deserve punishment, and it will somehow protect the society. Based on that, the texts let me think about another method of punishment instead of the lethal injection, electrocution and gas chamber. Such as letting the criminals stay all their life in the jail and try to help them to be good