"They killed each other with they love, that how it is, every single day."

TGM is really a show that has really got my brain churning. ALOT.

John Coffey, Del, Brutal, Boss Hedegcomb. All great people in their own special ways. They've left a great imprint on me. I respected them, i felt so strongly for the characters. The movie experience was so deliriously touching.

Today Mr Tan gave us the new subject for our blog posts. He blabbed alot about capital punishment.

Do people really deserve to be punished like in the show? Maybe not particularly in the same ways, but does the government have the right to take a life? That got me thinking real hard. Isnt capital punishment as bad as murder? No malicious intent involved, but WHAT HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO ELIMINATE ANOTHER?

Human beings are all made imperfect, some with greater faults than others. But who else has the right to judge than one who has attained perfection? And according to the cliche verse, "No one is perfect." And it remains so from the day we are delivered into earth, all the way till we step into our own "old sparky". ( an affectionate term used for the electric chair in the movie)

Capital punishment.

As displayed in the show, an innocent man ( a mircale of God's) was killed beacause he tried to save the lives of two young girls. Evidence was pointing against him. Race and color was a handicap. Size was a contradiction. Yet, against all characteristics, HE WAS INNOCENT. Assumption. Who will really know the true and extact circumstances of any happening unless he is a supreme being? We are but humans.

Although some times evidence opints to an answer almost too clear, what happens, then, when evidence is a red herring, a misleading bunch of facts that create misconceptions? Evidence, also, to its utmost usefulness, can only tell you what an offender did, not why. Reasons, pragmatics, logic.

Sometimes, human emotion takes the better of all these. Emotinos are unsually what makes a person do what he wants. Although it may not always be right, shouldnt everyone be given a chance to be a better individual?

Downplay the idea of capital punishment: Imagine you've done something very very wrong. You're repentant, you're filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement, you're penitent. But no matter what you try to do, your parents (or whoever else for that matter) doesnt forgive you. Whose fault is it, then?

My conclusion then, ends with a question. What is right and rong without forgiveness and grace?

Another poem:

Just for you John Coffey

Lonely as a sparrow
Ambling in the rain
Wanting to make the world alive
Loving others in vain

Blessed by almighty God
Cursed by trecherous men
When then
could he show
His utmost worth again

He tried to save them lives
However time intervened
In the end
Another life
was taken
Twas was his

A silent panther crouching in apprehent
Tame despite account
He was as timorous of the dark
As many others were afraid of God

Cold tingling beads of pespiration
Line his musculine frame
And a sweet stupid nightmare
Could wake him up insane

He said he was sorry for what he'd done
He couldn't take it back
But what other daft men perceived
Was a vision assumed and mad

He could never ever forget
the sweet, lingering whispers
Of the two mishapped blonde dolls
So frail, so brittle
could not forget their wails

I'm desperately besieged!
Oh how i mourn!
For the loss
Of seraphs like you
You'll never know
Then
How much pain
Everyday, that i go through

For my lovely girls
I hear the cries
Of everyone
Around

I bemoan all night
In silent thought
Of the wreckage
all humanity
Has wrought

Thou timid, fidget in his build
Behold a mask
Of courage, love and miracle
That forevermore will last

He walked the mile
Sat in a pool of death
Fingers trembling
Eyes are pouring
With tears constant like rain

God have mercy on your soul
God only who has control

I love you son
You've done me proud
You can sleep for now
And when you wake up, you'll find
You're in heaven
So sleep and smile

Close your eyes
Abandon this earth
Open your arms
I know your worth

I'll blow a kiss
Of merciful love
So lay your mind aside
My sweet kind dove
Because i love you so

You're taken
And you're mine

vindicated @ 5:04:00 AM