Stephen Vrabel is the second man in five years to voluntarily be executed scheduled to take place July 14th. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of his girlfriend and their daughter. The bodies were found in the family’s refrigerator several weeks later. Vrabel was unable to stand trial for six years due to his mental instability. Once placed on psychotropic drugs he was found guilty and sentenced to the death penalty. After several failed appeals, Vrabel has waived his rights to the rest of his guaranteed appeals and is volunteering to be executed. Many argue Vrabel is not mentally competent to make this decision and he was not mentally stable when he committed the crime. Justice Thurgood-Marshall, Ford v. Wainwright (1986) stated, “It is no less abhorrent today than it has been for centuries to exact in penance the life of one whose mental illness prevents him from comprehending the reasons for the penalty or its implications.”