For all people, death is an extremely terrible thing, and it is also something that everyone does not want to face, but in life, we inevitably accept the departure of relatives or friends. When we witness a life passing away around us, even strangers feel sorry for us.
Death is terrible, but in our lives, some people and some professions have to face death all the time, such as morticians and death officials. In the eyes of ordinary people, they may have seen through life and death and can calmly face corpses; or they may be indifferent to the death of others and only responsible for completing their own work. But these ideas are not reality, and the lives of those who deal with corpses all day are not very good, even troubled, such as our protagonist today, Michelle Lyons.
Michelle Lyons, the American Death Penalty Verifier, witnessed more than three hundred executions over a twelve-year period and, with her strong psychological qualities, recorded the "last moments of death row inmates" in a shocking book.
1. Work in the "Capital of the World Capital of the Death Penalty" and calmly face the first death penalty verification
Michelle Lyons was a journalist before officially becoming a death sentence verifier, a journalist who specializes in news about prisons. As a former journalist, Michelle Lyons knew the most vicious criminals before he became a death judge. It is for this reason that Michelle Lyons did not look thrilled when faced with the first death sentence in her life, but calmly and shockingly calm.
Michelle Lyons, who was 22 years old at the time, had said she had always carried out executions as a bystander, and that she had not felt any discomfort in the face of executions of vicious criminals. In his view, this was the punishment that these people deserved. In the face of the law, all people are created equal, "no one outside the law", only right and wrong. Michelle Lyons believed that this method was the best way to deal with those who were extremely evil, and it was for this reason that Michelle Lyons accepted this job that seemed difficult for ordinary people to accept.
But in the face of death, no one can be at ease. The place where Michelle Lyons works is known as the "Capital of the Death Penalty in the World". In twelve years, Michelle Lyons witnessed more than three hundred prisoners fall in front of him. Although Michelle Lyons had maintained a calm and unintended attitude when she first started the job, after she became a mother, his psychology changed a lot.
Second, after becoming a new mother, her attitude towards death row inmates changed 180 degrees
In the process of dealing with the corpses of the deceased, some people gradually become numb from the initial unacceptable to the later; some people from the beginning of the calm and calm, and then later because of life or other reasons, re-understand this matter. Obviously, Michelle Lyons is the latter. After becoming a new mother, his attitude towards the profession changed dramatically.
At first, Michelle Lyons was indifferent to this job, but as the working hours increased, after experiencing more and more things, she gradually felt the pressure of the job, so she tried to reduce the pressure by writing a diary.
Gradually, Michelle Lyons no longer showed indifference to the lives of criminals, and she began to force herself to understand the lives of criminals, and began to pay attention to the state, behavior, and emotions of death row inmates when they were executed. She began to watch the executions carefully, recording what she saw and heard, instead of being as unhurried as before.
Michelle Lyons's diary records the situation of many death row inmates at the time of execution, a criminal who murdered a mother and child, and at the time of execution, he wore a pair of glasses, and Michelle Lyons's diary records that many death row inmates in Michelle Lyons actually felt that he was very similar to one of his relatives, which shows that Michelle Lyons was very serious and observant at work.
Over time, Michelle Lyons even became friends with several death row inmates, and when these death row inmates were executed, Michelle Lyons would cry bitterly. She believes that she can inspire these people, and they can also reform themselves. But she had to think for the families of the victims, and Michelle Lyons was in a dilemma.
Michelle Lyons is increasingly conflicted, and many death row inmates wake up when they are about to be executed, but it is too late. These criminals can only pray for a better life in the next life, and also hope that when they die, they will not be too painful.
After Michelle Lyons became pregnant, her ambivalence also became more and more serious. She didn't want her children to hear all the talk about the death penalty, and after the birth of her first child, Michelle Lyons gradually began to fear her profession. After that, she chose to move away from her post and away from the profession of death penalty prosecutor. It's not so much that Michelle Lyons escapes for the sake of the children, but rather that Michelle Lyons's kind nature makes it impossible for her to face that situation.
THIRD, first-hand information from the execution ground - "The Last Moments of Death Row Prisoners"
Michelle Lyons thought that everything would improve after she was transferred from her previous position, but the results were not satisfactory. Michelle Lyons often remembers images of death row inmates being executed, and of what they had said before they died.
After hundreds of days and nights of suffering, Michelle Lyons decided to document the contents in a book titled The Last Moments of Death Row. Michelle Lyons hopes that readers will be able to think about what the death penalty really is through the stories in the book. Some people have made a very high evaluation of this book, believing that it is a first-hand account from the execution site and the parties involved, which helps people to recognize the essence of the death penalty through the appearance of events.
Later, the book was also published in China, and every country that has not yet abolished the death penalty needs the book. The whole book is not mixed with any personal feelings of the author, some are just the changes of the death row inmates before the execution, and the book is not just a novel, but more like a reporting literary work.
Author Michelle Lyons began to become in awe of life after experiencing a series of life changes such as marriage and children after being calm in the face of the death penalty. It is worth mentioning that one of Michelle Lyons's children died in a random killing in the following days, when Michelle Lyons did not cry hysterically or demand the murderer's blood debt, but became the last friend of the murderer.
epilogue:
Twelve years, witnessing more than three hundred executions, Michelle Lyons, as a mother, truthfully recorded more than three hundred "last moments of death row prisoners" and her personal understanding of death, hoping that every reader can think through this book about how people should be or how to treat those who have made mistakes.