I was listening to a radio documentary that made me think about life. It was a minute-by-minute documentary about the execution of death row inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. This powerful documentary subtly portrays the feelings of the wardens and the media who are witnesses to the lethal injection.

“Witness to an Execution”
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/witness_to_an_execution/

Even though the American government believe that they have the right to take away the life of a human being, they don’t take into account the actual feelings of the people who have to do it and witness the execution. In the documentary there is an account from a warden who had a break down from participating in so many deaths.

At a deeper level, what got to me was the fact that some one has the right to terminate the life of a human being. I personally believe that no one has the right to terminate the life of another human being. Everyone has the right to life, however constrained it might be! If they have done wrong then they should be punished and jailed, but not to kill them. It is literally murder.

I encourage everyone to listen to the documentary.