There is so much talk about the death penalty in everyday life, in a milliion different ways. There is so many different arguments when it comes deciding if this state or that state should have capital punishment enforced, and I do need to go with the fact that it should be. Thousands of arrests are made each and everyday, from robbery to selling drugs, or from rape to murder. The rapists and the murderers are the ones we all need to be worried about, so many are out there and we do not even realize it, the next big killer could even be your next door neighbor!
In my personal opinion, capital punishment is totally justifiable in certain situations. For people who commit crazy, intense murders they completely deserve what the consequences are. If someone is going to go brutally murder an innocent person they one hundred percent deserve exactly the same thing back. Criminals who sexually assault little girls or even little boys and then murder them, need to seriously be taken into consideration for this.
Recently in Erie a younger man, I believe somewhere from 18-24, was shot and murdered on spot within the last year. His killer received a about a 24 to 36 month sentence in jail, now tell me how fair that is? She then created a group called "Mothers against teen violence", what a great thing to create. This will really help alot of the mothers who are not getting total justice when it comes their childrens killers getting off as easy as pie. To commit murder or any crime worthy of the death penalty is a horrible sin that every offender should be given the maximum limit of time, or capital punishment.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
2 Year-Old Murdered
Within the last year in the city of Erie the crime rate has been going up more and more each and every day. If you turn on the news all you hear about is rape, murder, robbery, and things going wrong. Never do we hear about the little bit of goodness that is going on til the end. In September of this past year a man named Aaron Noyer was charged with the abduction, rape, and murder of two year old Elizabeth Neimic, one of my good friends cousin. Her parents reported her missing at about 11 AM the next day, when police came they were clueless. Eventually they did find Noyers fingerprints inside Elizabeths room.
When police arrested Noyer he said he did go through Elizabeths window to rob the house-hold. Clearly that had meant he took Elizabeth, now the only question was where is she? Eventually he did admit to the fact he had took her to the train tracks right along Twelfth street, just passed Greengarden Blvd, he had murdered her right there. Noyer has also been in trouble before because he set arson to his home with his eleven brothers and sister; with other miscellaneous charges. Now, personally I believe he sounds like a pretty violent man. To have him off of the streets of Erie does make me feel a little bit better, yet their are still many out there like him with this kind of mental sickness.
In the state of Pennsylvania you are not aloud to give someone the death penalty if they are considered mentally retarded. Well, this was a total gateway for Noyer to get out of this due to the fact that his IQ is only a 57. Noyer was noted to have finished high school, without any special education classes. This is something I completely disagree with, to have someone who is able to sit there and laugh about raping and murdering a little girl and to be able to state in detail in his court hearing exactly which roads he took to get to the train tracks, and exactly how he killed her is not mentally retarded. This is a case that just disgusts me, in some ways the court system helps out the criminals more than the victims.
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When police arrested Noyer he said he did go through Elizabeths window to rob the house-hold. Clearly that had meant he took Elizabeth, now the only question was where is she? Eventually he did admit to the fact he had took her to the train tracks right along Twelfth street, just passed Greengarden Blvd, he had murdered her right there. Noyer has also been in trouble before because he set arson to his home with his eleven brothers and sister; with other miscellaneous charges. Now, personally I believe he sounds like a pretty violent man. To have him off of the streets of Erie does make me feel a little bit better, yet their are still many out there like him with this kind of mental sickness.
In the state of Pennsylvania you are not aloud to give someone the death penalty if they are considered mentally retarded. Well, this was a total gateway for Noyer to get out of this due to the fact that his IQ is only a 57. Noyer was noted to have finished high school, without any special education classes. This is something I completely disagree with, to have someone who is able to sit there and laugh about raping and murdering a little girl and to be able to state in detail in his court hearing exactly which roads he took to get to the train tracks, and exactly how he killed her is not mentally retarded. This is a case that just disgusts me, in some ways the court system helps out the criminals more than the victims.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
China Death Penalty
China has a very interesting death penalty, there is 68 different acceptable reasons to give some one capital punishment. Including anything from tax fraud to murder, given by shooting the prisoner or lethal injection. To even consider giving someone the death penalty for tax fraud or robbery, is quite wrong in my eyes and millions of others. Yet, no China citizen has really ever gotten a fair trial due to lack of lawyers, being believed to be innocent until proven guilty, and not being able to extract the evidence found while these accused people are being tortured.
Due to the fact that they do use what is said while the police officers torture the prisoners, they fess up to certain allegations even if they are not guilty! This of course gives the courts 'evidence' to prosecute these people, which is not fair what so ever. Many civilians have attempted to try and get the death penalty abolished, it has never happened. In 2008 China was the number one country for death penalty occurences with an amount of 1,700 executions. As China tries to expand what they are doing with their technology, many companies look at the execution rate and realize something needs to be done. Since China won the 2001 Olympics their government did say that they were going to do something about what was going on inside their legal system.
The Chinese death policy since 1949 was "kill less, kill cautiously" and did not change up until recently to "preserve the death penalty, but use it cautiously." Personally, if this is what the United States policy was, I would have been to a different country by now. What ever people can honestly live under this rule and watch every single little step they make, my heart goes out to them because in my opinion that is cruel and unusual. Ensuring a good legal system and court policies would be one thing that the chinese could really do to get rid of some of these out-dated ways to execute people. China needs to wake up and realize what they are doing, and get themselves together...quick!
Shan, Yu. (2008). The death penalty in china. Retrieved from http://www.siiaonline.org/?q=blog/the-death-penalty-china
China: the death penalty, a failure of justice. (2006). Retrieved from http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/apro/aproweb.nsf/pages/appeals_adpan_china
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