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If I were able to talk to a jury before a case I would advise them NOT to complete relay on eye witness testimoney! Studies have proven that eye witness testimoney is not always relable and has convicted many inocent people for crimes they didn't even comit! There has been case were citizen were excuted and then later found incocent. Scientists believble that your mind replays like a movie and when you can't remember a certain part that you will just make it up to make it sound believable. Eye witness testiomeny has ruined so many inconet families, so juruors should not relay on it!



April 30,2012



April 5 ,2012

Do Now:Based on what you currently know at this moment about capital punishment (the death penalty), are you in support or do you oppose the use of capital punishment? Why or why not?

I dont know alot of the death pentalt but I am 100% AGANIST IT! No matter what someone does killing them is not a justicefull punishment 1) the could be excuted then be found innocent 2) or if they could kill to be put death 3) KILLING SOMEONE IS NOT JUSTICE . they should pick

Pro-Death Penalty Chart
 * Source || What arguments are presented in favor of capital punishment? || What values or beliefs guide these arguments? What evidence is used to support the arguments? || Do you find these arguments persuasive? Why or why not? ||
 * my personal opinion and [] || - they just didnt kill them they toutrued and raped them || - it gives the family justice || - i do because seeing the family is very depressing because i would want tsopmeone dead if they killed my kid ||
 * victim sisiter and mother Elizabeth Pena || - they were insocent girls || - The family seemed happy || - I do becausse these teens were abused and they were just walking home ||
 * || - You get get what u did to sojmeone else, done to you || -an "eye for an eye" || - No because no one should be killed for something they did, therefore they do not suffer ||
 * ||  || - take someone gift of lie, you take theris ||   ||

Anti-Death Penalty Chart

for all of them || - it doesnt bring the victim back || -Killing someone doesnt prove anything || -Yes because when a parnet of a victim defends the person thaast killed theri daughter it really hits your heart because they are the one that want the justice ||
 * Source || What arguments are presented against capital punishment? || What values or beliefs guide these arguments? What evidence is used to support the arguments? || Do you find these arguments persuasive? Why or why not? ||
 * Eddie Hicks and my opinion
 * || -unhumaly like to take someone life || - A parnets plea not to kill the man who murder her child || - I dont believe that killing someone is a punishement because someone who wants to get killed will go out and murder people in hope for death sentance ||
 * || -proves nothing || - Religion ( Christian) || - I do find this believebale becausew life is precious and taking one for another takesd aaway two precious gifts ||
 * ||  ||   || - Not always find guilty accuraaltly ||

Part 2. **Evaluate**
 * Think back to the five purposes of sentencing we discussed yesterday. What purposes does capital punishment serve?
 * Do you think capital punishment should be banned? List reasons why you think it should or should not from what you learned today.

- Incapacitation becasue them being killed they cant hurt anyone else - Retribution because they killed someone so the goverment nis gunna kill them

I do think the capitlial punshiment should be taken away. As I learned from today excuting someone does not bring the victim back. Life is a gift and just because someone decides to take some ones gift of life away from them does not mean that the goverment can take theirs. Many people have later been found inocent of a murder case and if they were found guilty and put to death it would have been wrong! and it is has happened for, so what do you tell a family that you wrongfully killed someone they love? If som

Op-Ed

In the twentieth century the death penalty causes a controversy not just between people but between states, countries and even the world. I do NOT believe in the death penalty. I feel that someone can be punished for murder in a different way rather than death! Giving a person(s) the death sentence does not bring the victim(s) back, but yet just takes another life away. I believe that life is a precious gift and just because someone takes someone’s gift of life away does not give the government the right to take theirs. Many people believe in the saying an “eye for an eye”, meaning that what you do to someone shall be done to you, but in today society we teach kids that two wrongs don’t make a right. So how can we expect our youth to go by that saying if someone of our own states in America can’t? Therefore all states should abolish the death penalty. It is said that the point of the death penalty is so the victim family can receive justice, but not all victim families believe in the death penalty. For example a man named Eddie Hicks daughter was murder a few years ago when she was shot in the head, she died instantly. When interviewed about the case he said that he does not believe that his daughter killer should receive the death penally. In his state, he is also part of a group who is trying to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment. When a man who has experienced the pain of losing a child due to murder, defending her killer’s life, it is pretty persuasive to make you be anti- death penalty the death penalty proves nothing because when you die, you do not suffer as much as being locked in a cell for the rest of your life.