The death penalty is a crude, antiquated form of punishment that should be entirely disavowed.
On Thursday, April 27, Kenneth Williams took his last breath as he lay strapped to a bed in a musty prison room. The execution chamber, which resides in Arkansas’s Cummins Unit penitentiary, is lit with flickering florescent lights. A small team of medical personnel, prison staff and spiritual advisors wait for the intensive procedure to begin. On that night, Williams awaited a “chemical cocktail” that numbed his body and stopped his heart — a fitting end for a man convicted of murdering three innocent souls, right?