There are a lot of things to learn in Political Science. It’s the study in which we learn about the branches of government along with historical context of laws and policies. Three subject areas I found most interesting this semester is pornography, presidential power, and death penalty. In this essay, I will briefly explain the three subject areas, identify one political problem out of the three, and present a solution. When people hear the word pornography, we automatically think of nudity and adult video. Some people find it inappropriate and while others find it exciting. What I did not know is that in 1973, the case Miller v. California, is a test in which Supreme Court use to determine if something is pornography or obscure. There
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In 1972, Furman v. Georgia stuck down death penalty as violation of the eighth amendment for unusual punishment. However in 1976, Gregg v. Georgia reinstated the death penalty which the Court held that it did not violate the eighth and fourteenth amendments. (Oyez) It very controversial for those who are for or against death penalty. As for someone like me who is against death penalty. There are one problem within the death penalty system and that is capital punishment. In Texas, there are a lot of people who were executed including innocent people. According to the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Law School, they studied about 86 cases involving those who are already executed to be innocent. The reasons why people are wrongful convicted is due to eyewitness error, false confessions, misconduct DNA test, and many more. (Warden, Rob) It not easy for people to escape death penalty unless there was new evidence. Under Capital punishment is a form of punishment where people is put to death as punishment for their crime. I do not think this will decrease the number of crime in anyway, but it does keep them always from society. The way I would solve this is to discontinue or revise the guideline of capital
In 1972, Furman v. Georgia stuck down death penalty as violation of the eighth amendment for unusual punishment. However in 1976, Gregg v. Georgia reinstated the death penalty which the Court held that it did not violate the eighth and fourteenth amendments. (Oyez) It very controversial for those who are for or against death penalty. As for someone like me who is against death penalty. There are one problem within the death penalty system and that is capital punishment. In Texas, there are a lot of people who were executed including innocent people. According to the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Law School, they studied about 86 cases involving those who are already executed to be innocent. The reasons why people are wrongful convicted is due to eyewitness error, false confessions, misconduct DNA test, and many more. (Warden, Rob) It not easy for people to escape death penalty unless there was new evidence. Under Capital punishment is a form of punishment where people is put to death as punishment for their crime. I do not think this will decrease the number of crime in anyway, but it does keep them always from society. The way I would solve this is to discontinue or revise the guideline of capital