The essay that I chose was Russell Mobley’s “Justice or Murder?”. In this essay, the author talks about how he is having a side job that preps the Florida State Prison death house for executions and his last day. The author explains that in 1960 this prison held inmates who were on death row until 2019 when they were transported to the Union Correctional Institution. Then he speaks about his last day, he had worked this job for the past five years, and in these five years he never questioned anything before he thought that it was justice and that they were “getting off too easy” but come this last day when things changed. He started to question if it was justice or if it was just murder. I have to disagree with questioning this, I believe that…show more content… So what gives them the right to continue to live and make new memories even if they are in prison when the people that they killed can’t make more memories for themselves or with their friends and family? In the essay, Mobley asks “Who has the right to say who lives and who dies? Is it okay because it is punishment?” These are great questions when it comes to this kind of topic and before I answer them in my personal opinion I think that it is important to remember that what you do has consequences regardless of whether you do something big or small. With that first question being something that might get a little confusing, no one has the right to say who lives and who dies when it’s over someone who has done nothing but when that someone has taken the life of another person then that’s where it is different. As I stated before, everything that you do is going to have consequences and this is a consequence for those who decide to ruin and change other people’s lives just for the thrill they might get. Then to answer the second question it’s not ok but it is justified because why should these people live after taking the lives of people who have so many more milestones they have yet to reach in their
