Unit+3

Do you support or oppose the use of capital punishment? Why or why not?

 * I dont know much about the death penalty or how they choose to use it, but I dont really agree with it because I dont think anybody deserves to die. I understand that killing someone or what ever it is you do to get the death penalty is wrong but I think locking them up for life is better then killing them.

‍Lesson:
Part 1. Using the following resources on capital punishment, you will identify the arguments presented in favor of and against the death penalty in the chart below.

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? ||
 * Arguments for the death penalty || Itshould only be used against people who commit murder frequenty. || the fear of capital punishment makes some criminals not commit the crime b/c of the consequence. || yes, because people should have chances and this is kind of saying that. ||

Anti-Death Penalty Chart


 * 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? ||
 * ACLU || we believe that the state should not give itself the right to kill human beings – especially when it kills with premeditation and ceremony, in the name of the law or in the name of its people, or when it does so in an arbitrary and discriminatory fashion. ||  || Yes ||
 * Fighting Capital Punishment-CBS News Video || He thinks that instead of the death penelty the person should just spend life in prison without parole. || There will always be someone who gets executited for doing nothing wrong . But with life in prison for a penalty, if law officials do make mistakes they can take it back . theres no taking back death. || Yes, I agree with this ||

Part 2. **Evaluate** In my opinion I think capital punishment serves the Retribution purpose because its all based on "an eye for an eye". Yes, I think capital punishment should be banned because everyone has the right to live but i do think they should loose freedom like being sentenced to life in prison.
 * Think back to the five purposes of sentencing we discussed yesterday. What purposes does capital punishment serve?
 * Do you think criminal punishment should be banned? List reasons why you think it should or should not from what you learned today.

Lesson:
 * __Day 2__**

Write an Op Ed (Opinion editorial) piece based on capital punishment. Explain how you feel about the death penalty and explain why states should review capital punishment in order to get rid of the death penalty as a sentence OR why states should add capital punishment to the punishments they already use.

Use what you learned about yesterday, the notes you took, and the case you researched for homework all as evidence for your op ed. In your op ed, you can do the following:
 * Use short, simple sentences.
 * Avoid jargon.
 * Explicitly support or oppose something.
 * Personalize the op-ed with an anecdote ( a personal story)
 * Link the op-ed to a current news story but keep the focus local.
 * Follow the particular paper's guidelines for submission closely.

Try the following outline for your op-ed:
 * 1) Start with a personal anecdote.
 * 2) Make your main point in the first or second paragraph.
 * 3) Begin to elaborate two, maximum three, supporting points in the following paragraphs. Make sure your paragraphs are short and contain one main idea.
 * 4) Use facts, statistics and studies to support your arguments. Do not, however, be overly legal. Use metaphors (sports, movies and music work best) to relate complex ideas.
 * 5) Conclude with a paragraph that draws the piece together and links to your opening anecdote.

Op Ed

I am against the death penilty, for many reasons. One of these reasons is because every human has the right to live. Its an unalianible right. Criminals have either been brought up from a broken home, or made mistakes in their lives. Criminals, are people too, and everyone deserves a second chance. People who committed a crime, is already suffering from what they have done, and shouldnt suffer even more from being on death row, waiting to die.

=__Guantanamo Bay__= //1.6.12// Describe what you already know about Guantanamo Bay.
 * Do Now:**

- I know that is a prison in cuba. I never heard of it or really bno what it was. Im not familiar with it.


 * Supreme Court Hears Guantanamo Case**
 * I think Guantanamo Bay should stay open becuase it makes sense to have a prison for these type of people. I dont think it should close because if it does there will be nowhere for the prisoners to go.**