Friday, December 17, 2010

abortion

For the 2 groups I thought both groups had good thoughts. They both were passionate about education of both which was cool. I think that the winning team right now is pro life, because it is easy to give into there tacticts which are crazy. I lean towards choice because to be honest i really don't care about someone elses baby. I think parents should know about the kids having an abortion, and i  think that because if you are under the age of 18 parent needs to be notified. If the kid is under 17 the parents have to give concense. I think our business is our parents business too. On the other hand other people getting involved is not anybody elses business. Having the father know is a really tough call. Simply because without his siemen the baby would never have been created in the first place. So I think that sometimes its better to leave them out because who knows about the domestic violence that could follow. I like Illinois' law on abortion because banning it just makes more controversy i feel like. Also what people don't understand is that pro choice is also pro life. It just gives the option of an abortion. Most of the time people have the babies. Abortion is between someone else and whatever they believe. Government needs to stay out!!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Death Penalty 3

Stages- I think the stages for the death penalty is the pre-trial, guilt phase trial, penalty phase trial, direct appeal, post-conviction review, and finally Federal habeas corpus. The pre trial is how they get the criminal, and when arrested read rights, and it's the set up for the guilt phase trial. The 6th ammendment is right to a free trial, and therefore that is the guilt phase trial. And Finally that goes with  the penalty phase trial. The Direct appeal gives the defendant a chance to prove there was mismtakes. And the review process is to make sure that they did nothing wrong and the Federal habeas corpus takes it the federal courts if allowed and the allow it to see if it was constitutional at the highest stage. All of these make the death penalty able to be constitutional.

Methods- I think the only humane one is lethal injection. Lethal injection just gets it over with quikly and you can be at peace. The other 5 are not humane they are all cruel. All of them could feel very bad pain. Hanging someone if they are not exact the person could be hanging alive for up to 45 min. All of them have there weekness, but none of them are humane if they screw it up. Lethal injection you put in the needle and in a matter of time the person is asleep, and about to die.

States- California has most  people on death row. 14 states don't have the death penalty anymore. Texas and oklahoma both have 3 women on death row.

It  does cost more money for the execution itself, but I still believe they need the death penalty.