Class Discussion
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For our Class Discussions from this point forward, I will assign a particular case for analysis (found at the end of each chapter) and you are to answer the questions it poses from the perspective of the particular ethical framework you have been assigned for each subject matter. For some perspectives your argument may be somewhat of a stretch, just do your best to make it apply. You will note that no longer do you have to post before you can view other’s comments, so feel free to respond to your fellow students, but be sure to get your primary post completed as well. NOTE: Please put the name of the ethical framework you’ve been assigned for this topic in the subject line of the post. |
Redemption and Capital Punishment
Redemption and Capital Punishment
This week we’ll all deal with the same case for analysis, Redemption and Capital Punishment. Using your assigned framework how would you apply it to this set of questions? What’s your best argument? Why? The article is on page 347 of our text book.
This is the article page 347. In 2005, 51-year-old Stanley tookie Williams, convicted murderer and crips gang co-founder, was executed by the state of California. His many supporters including celebrities such as Jamie Foxx and snoop Dogg- denounced the execution as unjust because while in prison he had sought and found redemption. As one report says,
The case became the state’s highest –profile execution in decades. Hollywood stars and capital punishment foes argued that williams’ sentence should be commuted to life in prison because he had made amends by writing children’s books about the dangers of gangs and violence.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected Williams pela for clemency on the grounds that willams was not genuinely remorseful about the crips’ killings. Williams was convicted of murdering four people a 26 year old store clerk and a couple and their 43 year old daughter. As the trial, witnesses said gragged and laughed about the murders. The associated press quoted Williams sayings. “there is no part of me that existed them that exists now.”
Suppose Williams was guilty of the murders for which he was convicted, and supposed he had a genuine change of heart and performed many commendable deeds while in prison. Should williams’s sentence then have been commuted to life in prison? Why or why not? Is redemption compatible with justice? If a murderer mends his ways, should this change have an effect on his punishment? Is mercy{ giving someone a break} compatible with justice {giving someone what he deserves}?
And this is my framework virtue Ethics.
