The Last Day Of Freedom By Bill Babbitt

The documentary, The Last Day of Freedom, Bill Babbitt discuses his brother and his later sentence to death row. His brother, Manny Babbitt had a troubled childhood in where first, he was in a car accident. He was then held back four grades because he could not focus. He ended up dropping out in the seventh grade and was illiterate. Manny later enlisted in the Vietnam war and returned suffering from PTSD. Manny’s post-traumatic stress disorder was the reason that he committed his crimes. He was later charged with the murder of Leah Schendel and given the death penalty. Babbitt died on May 4th, 1999 by lethal injection. The question of who has blood on their hands, I can personally see from different perspectives. First, I believe our