On 11 September 2001, the World Trade Center was taken down. Many Americans frantically grasped for answers as to what exactly happened and who had done such a deed. The harsh reality is that there was nobody to be directly accountable for the blast. Native New Yorkers were outraged, whether their reason lay with the loss of a family member or their incredible patriotism. Regardless, fear and trepidatious feelings swam through the country, chiseling away at the American pride little by little. With nobody accountable, the question arises of whom shall be punished. Surely such an act would be worthy of a punishment so high that it would take the life of the offender. Many people thought this way on 19 April 1995 when Timothy James McVeigh committed 168 counts of murder by bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He fled the scene during the explosion and…show more content… This is often a more difficult, painful, problematic, and demoralizing way to expire. The number of suicides of those on death row leads one to believe in bad prison conditions for those awaiting their expiration date. If Timothy McVeigh were to spend the rest of his life decomposing in the corner of a freezing prison cell would that not be more demoralizing than a quiet, non-painful execution? Not only that, but America would rob him of his “last chance to inflict one last wound” with his words (Adams). Timothy McVeigh should not have been a recipient of the death penalty because his ultimate punishment would neither reciprocate nor make up for an act of cold blood against 168 innocent men, women, and children. However, there was a contingency of the closest one can get to repaying McVeigh by refunding him his expiration date by allowing him to spend his lifetime on the only unreachable shelf in the stockroom of the town’s grungiest
