I have wanted to write for sometime now about I how feel and I had to
get some courage together in order to finally write it down and send it
out there for whoever on this crazy but essential thing they call the
internet to hear my pleas for help.
It concerns my feelings about capitol punishment and death row. I think
it is a sickening way of revenge, unnecessarily used and abused in the
most sad and frightening way. It is inhumane and cruel what the states
do to their own citizens. How are you going to say that it is not right
to kill and then say that we're going to show you by killing you too.
Then you have made yet many, many more people suffer the lose of a loved
one and you, yourself have assisted in killing yet another human being.
And you know what; sometimes it ends up being a severely mentally ill
person, one who was a minor (a child) at the time of the crime, or even
worse, an innocent man (or woman) who is awaiting a horrible death but
first has to await his wrongful sentence, being treated less than an
animal awaiting to be put to sleep. I personally have seen animals put
to sleep and it isn't as such a painful and cruel way to die as these
men do. If you must be put to sleep before your time then it should be
more of a peaceful death. We have no right trying to do the Lords job.
Hasn't there been enough pain, loss and sadness?
I guess I better explain before I go any further. I have a brother on
Texas Death Row who has a valid claim of innocence and I've also became
close to a few others there at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas.
So of course, I quickly learned of the outrageous and cruel conditions
about that place first and I surely keep up more intensely with their
conditions. But I've have a lot of time to learn about other places too
since Paul has been there 9 years waiting for his day to come like so
many of his friends have already and at the same time praying that he
will be able to prove his innocence first.
Paul has been protesting the conditions at Polunsky for awhile now and
he's not the only one who is speaking out about the way they have to
live and how they are treated everyday awaiting there cold and
calculated death. I don't understand how you can put someone in a small,
confined, enclosed area with very little daylight shining through and no
heat or ventilation, whichever is required at the time. How can you keep
them in there for 23 hours of the day with no human contact. How can you
take their property away from them, and anything else to stimulate there
mind in order to keep sane. How can you do that to a human being,
someone who has friends and loved ones who are truly and innocently
suffering every time we hear about them being run in on, gassed or just
downright treated or talked to like an animal and expect him to keep his
mind. How do I keep my mind seeing my mother long to hold my brother in
her arms since these mothers of death row inmates in Texas, will never
feel the touch of their son again.
I just don't understand how we can continue to treat human life this
way. It has made me feel proud of my brother and the others who are
either speaking out or just giving permission for the others to use
their name and complaints. They must protest for the same that we
protest for. To stop the killings and to improve the conditions and
treatment of our loved ones on death row. I just get scared sometimes
that through the protesting inside that someone will be seriously hurt
or killed. It shouldn't have to go that far. I know in my heart that the
ones who are complaining and protesting, would also work together with
the right people to come to an agreement; if the rules can just be
followed but not just by the inmates. By the administration and the ones
who can legally change the conditions for these guys. The ones in charge
on death row should be setting an example and following the rules too.
In sadness with a lot of others,
Theresa Rosillo (Paul Colellas Sister)
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