Death penalty blog #3

1)      The guilt phase trial and the pre-trial can protect the defendant the most. I think people can be wrongly convicted or persecuted because a “witness” or  informants can say things and blame people who have no connecion with the crime whatsoever and the police use the information given to them if they cant find anything else on the case as they’re base of the case which I think can be misleading. I think the defendant is protected to a certain degree. Evidence from the crime scene or such doesn’t always point to the right person so they blame someone. I think the police should look more thoroughly into cases to make sure the defendant is guilty without a doubt.

2)      I would say the lethal injections are the most humane of the executions. All of them besides the lethal injections are inhumane because there can be mistakes in all of them that can lead to either severe pain or slowly dying from the execution. Even though the lethal injections can have mistakes too it still is the most humane because the inmate dies peacfully in they’re sleep.

3)      Lots of inhumane ways of execution still exist to me I find weird because its a “cruel and unusual” punishment. The penalty is used a lot more than I actually thought and knew. This changed the perspective of which I see it because I see numbers on the states now rather then just hearing numbers. This helped me a lot because im a very visual person and it helps me understand the significance of the numbers of killed people and death row inmates. Texas and California have a lot of death penalties which I quite understand why but would like to know. It is equal I think I mean a lot of killed inmates and death row inmates are white and there are about the same amount of blacks as whites.

4)      The facts are staring at me and I have the same response as the one before this. It doesn’t really help it says and race whise I think its pretty fair from what the statistics show. The public doesn’t really think it helps stop homocides but approves of it. It has an unbiased opinion from what Ive seen of the statistics but it lets you see both sides of the story really by showing everything involved with the cases as a majority.

The Death Penalty

I think Clifford Boggess should have been sentenced to the death penalty because not only did he kill one person but he killed two and it shows how he is willing to kill someone again if he ‘has’ to. Also as his uncle said the man was a lier and you couldn’t tell when he was being real with you and when he was putting on a show. The guy simply couldn’t be trusted. To put this guy prison for life would just be too much money and prison should be for the people who haven’t done such offensess such as killing. But if a person is put in prison after killing multiples peoples it has to be shown that this person has made a change mentally and can see what they did wrong. With Clifford he showed that but it couldn’t be determined if this was all an act or not. Not only that but he had drawn pictures of the prison wall inside one of his paintings hidden. Why it was hidden we don’t know but the fact that he was trying to hide it and get it past security is suspicious. The fact is people can be given a second chance, its just he blew it with the painting and hes not really a trust worthy person. I believe he isn’t because before his death he stopped talking to a good friend because she didn’t believe in what he was doing with his money after his death. He friended random people who were of his religion and change to catholisism. He did it abruptly which to me makes his actions and behaviors seem a little weird to me.

Its hard to say if Clifford changed or not. He did paint and he became a christian but did he really believe in his religion or was it a hoax everyone to give him a life sentence? We wont knot now especially since he is dead but I don’t think he changed really because once you have that mentallity at such a young age and then in teenage years stay the same its hard to change from that because that’s the concrete of your life. When you’re a teenager that’s where you begin to shape your personality and habbits and such. He killed people and the mentallity behind to me didn’t change. I could see him doing it again.

I don’t believe he should have been killed just because the families wanted him dead. That’s not the right reason that’s just revenge and killing a person for those reasons is just stooping down to the criminals level. None the less he was killed but after he was dead it actually did help Liza Hazleworth feel better but that still doesn’t not make it right to kill someone for revenge. They should be judged if they are to be killed from they’re crimes and the changes the person has made.