What happened to the saying “an eye for an eye?” In today’s world many excuses are arising for the crime and moral wrong doings of members of society. The issue is no longer if a crime was committed, but what traumatic experience or up bringing led the prosecuted to commit the crime? As in the recent story, Hit man in 1992 San Antonio slaying gets stay of execution, appearing in the Dallas Morning News, defending attorneys are falling back on “substance abuse and troubled childhood” as circumstances that should have been taken into consideration before sentencing Mr. Ruiz to death. Mr. Ruiz is now 35 and committed the murder of Theresa Rodriguez 15 years ago. Keep in mind that this still makes him 20 when he committed the murder, therefore not a minor. Regardless of whatever “troubled childhood” he may have had, this does not exempt him from knowing that receiving payment for murder is not right or lawful.
The role of a judge and its jury is (or should be) a respected position and by giving Mr. Ruiz a sentence to death roe this is exactly where he should end. The punishment should not be a drawn out process that fails to go through and is canceled after the planned execution time. The mere fact that Mr. Ruiz says “I’m happy,” is a clear sign that something went wrong in our judicial system. Prison is not meant to be a vacation stay at a hotel. Prison is prison and this should bring all the implications that go along with it. Murderers do not deserve hope that they can continue to waste tax dollars and avoid proper punishment for their crimes.
2 comments:
Very nice job for Stage One! All the elements are in place, and you've presented them in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Two suggestions: 1) re-read the text for grammar, spelling, and so forth. Blogs are by their very nature less formal than an academic paper, but this exercise is a hybrid. I find it helpful to write my posts in a word processor (allowing me to run spell check and/or grammar check) and then paste the resulting text into the blog. It's amazing the things you can see and catch that way.....
2) You might make the title of the story you are introducing in the third sentence (Hit man in 1992 San Antonio slaying gets stay of execution) a link to the full article.
These are small suggestions and on the whole, you're off to a great start.
Kris S. Seago
Great start.
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