In Chapter 6 of our textbook, we learned about the following: state power, the types of state violence, exogenous violence such as genocide, torture, international conflict, terrorism, and lastly endogenous violence such as state executions anti-communist attacks, domestic spying, etc. I found these topics extremely interesting, as well as, believe that they are particularly controversial topics for discussion. A few things that really stood out for me in this chapter were the topics of executions, torture, and genocide.
Over 30 million people have been killed in genocides across the globe; this means that certain leaders found a specific ethnicity or nationality inferior and just decided to kill them. A great example of this would be the …show more content…
Executions are lethal injections that are done to criminals who have committed the crime of murder; however, these punishments seem to be rarely handed out. In my opinion, I feel that the death penalty is cruel and unusual. Prior to reading this chapter, I had thought the death penalty was legal in all 50 states including around the world, but some states have made capital punishment illegal, as well as, many other countries. It perplexed me how our justice system has not completely made this illegal because this punishment is unfair and biased. I am uncomfortable with the whole concept of the death penalty, the methods of execution, and the lack of standards supporting this sentence. I believe that it should be completely banned worldwide just because of how terrible it is as an overall punishment. A short while ago, I had heard about Kelly Gissendaner who was executed in the state of Georgia; apparently, she was the first woman in a long time who had been executed in the state. I read up on her story, and I was appalled with the sentence, and even more upset that she did not get an appeal. She was involved in the murder of her husband by convincing her boyfriend at the time to kill him; oddly, in this case, she had no physical hand in the murder. On the other hand, the boyfriend did the killing; what bothered me in this situation was that
Over 30 million people have been killed in genocides across the globe; this means that certain leaders found a specific ethnicity or nationality inferior and just decided to kill them. A great example of this would be the …show more content…
Executions are lethal injections that are done to criminals who have committed the crime of murder; however, these punishments seem to be rarely handed out. In my opinion, I feel that the death penalty is cruel and unusual. Prior to reading this chapter, I had thought the death penalty was legal in all 50 states including around the world, but some states have made capital punishment illegal, as well as, many other countries. It perplexed me how our justice system has not completely made this illegal because this punishment is unfair and biased. I am uncomfortable with the whole concept of the death penalty, the methods of execution, and the lack of standards supporting this sentence. I believe that it should be completely banned worldwide just because of how terrible it is as an overall punishment. A short while ago, I had heard about Kelly Gissendaner who was executed in the state of Georgia; apparently, she was the first woman in a long time who had been executed in the state. I read up on her story, and I was appalled with the sentence, and even more upset that she did not get an appeal. She was involved in the murder of her husband by convincing her boyfriend at the time to kill him; oddly, in this case, she had no physical hand in the murder. On the other hand, the boyfriend did the killing; what bothered me in this situation was that