WP#1
Topic: Executions
Research question: Death Row, Are they all guilty?
Context: History of Execution, What the purpose of execution, Total of inmates sitting on death row, What type of crimes inmates committed to be placed on death row, How many have been wrongly accused, How many have been exonerated, and Who is affected by executions.
Purpose:Educate, tell both side
Audience: Society
Author: Me? P Estrada
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Deadline #3 HW #5
!!! First of all I could NOT log on to either of these web sites:!!!
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~rrodrigo/lession/rhet.sit/rhetorical_situation.swf
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~rrodrigo/lession/rhet.sit/rhetorical_situation.html
Topic: Executions
Research question:Death Row, are they all guilty?
I think one group of audience analysis would be Society.
Some question society would like to know.
What is the history of Executions?
What the purpose of an execution?
How many inmates currently seat on death row?
What are the type of crimes, that lead them to death row?
How many inmates were wrongly accused?
How many people have bee exonerated?
Who is affected by executions?
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~rrodrigo/lession/rhet.sit/rhetorical_situation.swf
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~rrodrigo/lession/rhet.sit/rhetorical_situation.html
Topic: Executions
Research question:Death Row, are they all guilty?
I think one group of audience analysis would be Society.
Some question society would like to know.
What is the history of Executions?
What the purpose of an execution?
How many inmates currently seat on death row?
What are the type of crimes, that lead them to death row?
How many inmates were wrongly accused?
How many people have bee exonerated?
Who is affected by executions?
Deadline #3 HW #4
Life on Death Row, Are they all Guilty?
Who is invested in this topic?
I can think of 5 main groups that are invested in this topic.
1.The inmate on death row.
2.Inmates personal family members.
3.People that deal with the inmates on death row.
4.The executioner.
5.Society.
What would these group of people do with this information?
Who is invested in this topic?
I can think of 5 main groups that are invested in this topic.
1.The inmate on death row.
2.Inmates personal family members.
3.People that deal with the inmates on death row.
4.The executioner.
5.Society.
What would these group of people do with this information?
Deadline #3 HW #3
My Research plan in a nut shell:
hitting the library, database, interviews, stats and of course the web.
hitting the library, database, interviews, stats and of course the web.
Deadline #3 HW #2
Okay my Topic is: Executions.
For now I believe my purpose is to be a Advocate.
After a lot of reading and surfing the web, I starting thinking"brain storming", what about Executions.
Which in turn lead me to Death Penalty in the United States.
Which lead me to 3 categories: Innocence, Rehabilitation, and Guilty.
My Research question: Life on Death Row, Are they all guilty?
Some of the question I would like to find out are:
History of Execution? How many people have been executed?
Which states have death penalty, and if they hold the execution on their facility?
How many people have been released from death row-"innocence"?
Can an death row inmate, be rehabilitated?
How many people, who have been executed, where later found innocence?
For now I believe my purpose is to be a Advocate.
After a lot of reading and surfing the web, I starting thinking"brain storming", what about Executions.
Which in turn lead me to Death Penalty in the United States.
Which lead me to 3 categories: Innocence, Rehabilitation, and Guilty.
My Research question: Life on Death Row, Are they all guilty?
Some of the question I would like to find out are:
History of Execution? How many people have been executed?
Which states have death penalty, and if they hold the execution on their facility?
How many people have been released from death row-"innocence"?
Can an death row inmate, be rehabilitated?
How many people, who have been executed, where later found innocence?
Deadline#2,HW #7 "Deadline Reflection"
Wow, I didn't realize how much work, this one paper was going to be. When Mr. Adams said all we have to do is one paper "I was like score". However the books helped out a lot, as well as the Bedford Researcher web site. As mentioned before I was stumped on where and how to begin, but the reading material helped a lot. I'm most certainly going to have to break the work assignments down.
Deadline#2,HW #6
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
This web site has so much information concerning the death penalty: cost, innocence, international, mental illnes, mental retardation,victims, history(timeline)etc. I found this web site searching around on del.ici.us
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9084818&fsrc=RSS
This is another web site I found on del.ici.us
Here's an article for the web site, this goes on lines of Is execution inhuman?"In Florida last December, Angel Diaz was executed by lethal injection. The three-drug cocktail that is used by 37 American states is supposed first to induce unconsciousness, then to paralyse muscles and block breathing, and finally to stop the heart. But after the first injection, Diaz continued to move, squint and grimace as he tried to mouth words. A second dose was administered; only after 34 minutes was he declared dead. A post mortem showed the first needle had plunged through the intended vein, injecting the deadly chemicals into soft tissue instead. Two days later Governor Jeb Bush suspended executions in the state and set up a commission with a mandate to consider the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injections".
Articles like this make you think wow!
This web site has so much information concerning the death penalty: cost, innocence, international, mental illnes, mental retardation,victims, history(timeline)etc. I found this web site searching around on del.ici.us
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9084818&fsrc=RSS
This is another web site I found on del.ici.us
Here's an article for the web site, this goes on lines of Is execution inhuman?"In Florida last December, Angel Diaz was executed by lethal injection. The three-drug cocktail that is used by 37 American states is supposed first to induce unconsciousness, then to paralyse muscles and block breathing, and finally to stop the heart. But after the first injection, Diaz continued to move, squint and grimace as he tried to mouth words. A second dose was administered; only after 34 minutes was he declared dead. A post mortem showed the first needle had plunged through the intended vein, injecting the deadly chemicals into soft tissue instead. Two days later Governor Jeb Bush suspended executions in the state and set up a commission with a mandate to consider the humanity and constitutionality of lethal injections".
Articles like this make you think wow!
Deadline#2,HW #5
*What interest me in this topic is, because I work in law enforcement. In the back of my mind I always had an interest in executions. The history,whether it right or wrong, are the certain races stereo typed, can a person sentenced to execution be rehabilitated, sitting on death row, are their innocent people on death row?.
*After getting on the computer, searching the web, I become more interested, theirs so much information out their.
*I guess what surprised me about this topic, is that its so big. You have a wide range of paths you can take, learn about.
*I guess I'm just amazed how an individual can be so lost "state of mind" to comment a crime. I was raised going to church. Learning right and wrong, and applying that to the decision I make in life. One thing Ive realized is that a lot of criminals, don't think, they just act, or they have no concept of what their doing is wrong. I met people who just don't care (about themselves or any one) no respect for life.
*The only experience that I have with this topic, is because I work in the environment which leads to an individual to execution.
*After getting on the computer, searching the web, I become more interested, theirs so much information out their.
*I guess what surprised me about this topic, is that its so big. You have a wide range of paths you can take, learn about.
*I guess I'm just amazed how an individual can be so lost "state of mind" to comment a crime. I was raised going to church. Learning right and wrong, and applying that to the decision I make in life. One thing Ive realized is that a lot of criminals, don't think, they just act, or they have no concept of what their doing is wrong. I met people who just don't care (about themselves or any one) no respect for life.
*The only experience that I have with this topic, is because I work in the environment which leads to an individual to execution.
Deadline#2,HW #4
Capital Punishment is the topic I decided to go with. As mention earlier in Deadline #2, HW #1 I work for a law enforcement agency, and I wanted to learn my about the topic. I first sat down with my notebook, writing down issues that fall into capital punishment: sentencing, executions, serial killers, sex offenders,etc. I found many issues that fall into Capital Punishment, one web site I found interesting was, Death Penalty Information Center "DPIC" http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ which is posted on my del.ici.us page. I work with an individual who has sat in on an execution. I figured I can interview him on the subject.So I've some what narrowed my topic to executions.
Deadline#2,HW #3
Abstract By Mary H. Cooper
Is capital punishment administered fairly?
Aseries of shocking murders in the past few years has focused public attention once again on the death penalty. The deaths caused by the Oklahoma City bombers, the “Unabomber” and others have lent support to advocates of capital punishment. They continue to argue that capital punishment not only deters crime but also helps the families of murder victims find ”closure.” But opponents call for reform, if not abolition, of the death penalty. They point to disturbing evidence that non-white offenders are more likely to be executed for their crimes than white offenders and that poor inmates often don't receive adequate legal counsel. As proof they cite the cases of 75 people released from death row after courts reversed their convictions.
Convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker was executed in Texas on Feb. 3, 1998, despite widespread pleas to spare her life because she had been rehabilitated in prison. (Photo Credit: Reuters)Abstract By Margaret Edwardshttp://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f23c19627e285
Abstract By Kenneth Jost
Should states impose moratoriums on executions?
Critics and opponents of the death penalty are warning that capital trials and sentencing hearings are so riddled with flaws that they risk resulting in the execution of innocent persons. Supporters of capital punishment discount the warnings, emphasizing that opponents cannot cite a single person in modern times who was executed and later proven to have been innocent. The debate over erroneous convictions has increased in recent years because DNA testing now allows inmates to prove their innocence years after their convictions. The Supreme Court opens its term on Oct. 3 with two closely watched cases pending on rules allowing state inmates to use newly discovered evidence to challenge their convictions in federal courts, based on “actual innocence” as well as constitutional violations. Meanwhile, death penalty critics want states to follow Illinois' example and impose moratoriums on executions.
Opponents of the death penalty hold their annual vigil outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2005. The court in its upcoming term will hear two cases affecting death-row inmates' ability to challenge their convictions. (Getty Images/Brendan Smialowski)http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f23e112a8e002
Abstract By Patrick Marshall
Are they too harsh?
California's controversial three-strikes law sends repeat offenders to prison for 25-years-to-life for non-violent crimes like shoplifting. Although the California law is the nation's harshest, 24 other states have adopted similar laws in the past decade. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the law forces judges to mete out "cruel and unusual punishment," prohibited by the Constitution. The two cases the high court will review have become a lightning rod for debate over mandatory-sentencing policies adopted by the federal government and the states in drug-war crackdowns over the past 30 years. Advocates say such policies have cut crime, but critics say other reasons caused the decline. Meanwhile, several states have begun modifying their mandatory-sentencing laws to give judges more discretion in cases involving non-violent offenders.
Ten-year-old Joanna Verduzco of Riverside, Calif., joins a protest organized by Families Against California Three Strikes in March at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Because her father had two previous felony convictions, he was sentenced to 29-years-to-life in prison for his third felony, possession of less than a gram of methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f243ce623bd97
Is capital punishment administered fairly?
Aseries of shocking murders in the past few years has focused public attention once again on the death penalty. The deaths caused by the Oklahoma City bombers, the “Unabomber” and others have lent support to advocates of capital punishment. They continue to argue that capital punishment not only deters crime but also helps the families of murder victims find ”closure.” But opponents call for reform, if not abolition, of the death penalty. They point to disturbing evidence that non-white offenders are more likely to be executed for their crimes than white offenders and that poor inmates often don't receive adequate legal counsel. As proof they cite the cases of 75 people released from death row after courts reversed their convictions.
Convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker was executed in Texas on Feb. 3, 1998, despite widespread pleas to spare her life because she had been rehabilitated in prison. (Photo Credit: Reuters)Abstract By Margaret Edwardshttp://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f23c19627e285
Abstract By Kenneth Jost
Should states impose moratoriums on executions?
Critics and opponents of the death penalty are warning that capital trials and sentencing hearings are so riddled with flaws that they risk resulting in the execution of innocent persons. Supporters of capital punishment discount the warnings, emphasizing that opponents cannot cite a single person in modern times who was executed and later proven to have been innocent. The debate over erroneous convictions has increased in recent years because DNA testing now allows inmates to prove their innocence years after their convictions. The Supreme Court opens its term on Oct. 3 with two closely watched cases pending on rules allowing state inmates to use newly discovered evidence to challenge their convictions in federal courts, based on “actual innocence” as well as constitutional violations. Meanwhile, death penalty critics want states to follow Illinois' example and impose moratoriums on executions.
Opponents of the death penalty hold their annual vigil outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2005. The court in its upcoming term will hear two cases affecting death-row inmates' ability to challenge their convictions. (Getty Images/Brendan Smialowski)http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f23e112a8e002
Abstract By Patrick Marshall
Are they too harsh?
California's controversial three-strikes law sends repeat offenders to prison for 25-years-to-life for non-violent crimes like shoplifting. Although the California law is the nation's harshest, 24 other states have adopted similar laws in the past decade. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the law forces judges to mete out "cruel and unusual punishment," prohibited by the Constitution. The two cases the high court will review have become a lightning rod for debate over mandatory-sentencing policies adopted by the federal government and the states in drug-war crackdowns over the past 30 years. Advocates say such policies have cut crime, but critics say other reasons caused the decline. Meanwhile, several states have begun modifying their mandatory-sentencing laws to give judges more discretion in cases involving non-violent offenders.
Ten-year-old Joanna Verduzco of Riverside, Calif., joins a protest organized by Families Against California Three Strikes in March at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Because her father had two previous felony convictions, he was sentenced to 29-years-to-life in prison for his third felony, possession of less than a gram of methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=114f243ce623bd97
Deadline #2,HW#1 Reading Reflection
Wow, was the first thing in my mind when I first started reading Bedford Researcher book. To be honest, before I started reading, I was stumped on a topic. Where do I begin?, What should I write about? etc. So reading Chapter 1,2 and Chapter 18 helped me a lot. Chapter 1, got me thinking, What interest me? What topic will I benefit from? I can up with 3 possible topic: #1. Capital Punishment because I currently work in law enforcement. #2 Native American, because I half. #3 Firer fighters, because my future goal is to become one.Chapter #2 I starting writing in my note book. I made a list based on the 4 steps. Chapter #18 I was amazed, by all the different styles, and proper ways of writing"cite" a paper. The first thing that came into my mind was Mr.Adams when he said, You need to buy this book, because when it comes to writing your paper, or homework you'll be lost. He was right. If I were to write a paper without the required materials my paper would not only be wrong, it would lack a lot of information. I can honestly say I'm learning a lot from this class.
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