An interesting topic in this chapter is the Death Penalty. Are you for it? Are you against it? Do you just want to change it? I believe we should keep it. It’s one of those reminders hanging from our heads that tells us, “If you murder someone you will most likely be found with Homicide and there is a good chance you will suffer the Death Penalty. It’s the maximum penalty for doing any kind of severe wrongdoing and keeping it is in place is assuring a certain amount of restraint and cooperation. Our society needs cooperation. Are we going to get rid of the Death Penalty and bring in more prisons so the person who murdered our loved ones and chill in a hollowed out brick? I sure hope not. It is difficult for me to understand the ways of a Homicide killer but our society deserves justice, and justice is putting them away and out of the picture so they are not allowed to hurt anyone ever again. Our book gives us a poll taken in 2000, “65-75 percent of Americans are for keeping the Death Penalty, and what this tells me is that US citizen strongly understand the need for such a penalty. Now there are reasons out there why we should not keep it due to the possibility of rising homicide rates, an accidental capital punishment, and barbaric. Quite honestly I also look at the Death Penalty as “Learning a Lesson,” If you kill someone we will kill you. Of course in many ways it is not right but do you want those people alive living off our tax money and living their life? Yes it’s barbaric, if you’re an emotionally girly man/woman! (Hanz and Franz: SNL). Keeping the Death Penalty is right now the best we have. It’s like the better of two evils. It’s like what’s being told to us is, “When we get a better one, we’ll let the US know, until then we stay with this evil.” The Death Penalty is appropriate in certain circumstances, and isn’t in others. I’m not here to debate when it’s fair and when it’s not. Though fair enough that it is applied everywhere for the same reasons.
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I graded your chapter 9. I had a few comments for you. First, I didn't get a sense of what you "learned" in this chapter. I saw your opinion which is just fine to do, but I didn't get much of any reflection of what you learned in this material. Second, you had said that the death penalty would be a lesson for homicide. From our discussions about deterrence in this chapter, is that correct? Finally, you'll want to work on your writing a bit.
I am grading chapter 10. You did not have a chapter 10. So, I graded it as a zero.
I take it that you did not want to complete your blog. 12, 13, and experience garnered zero points.
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