JUSTICE WHEN A LIFE IS LOST

YOU DETERMINE JUSTICE

THESE ARE YOUR CHOICES FOR JUSTICE

VALUE DEFINITION

• 10 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT•

• 8 LIFE IMPRISONMENT

• 6 LONG PRISON TERM 15-25 YEARS

• 4 MINIMUM PRISON TERM 1-5 YEARSOR PAROLE ONLY

• 2 NO PENALTY OR PROBATION ONLY

PLACE A VALUE OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING SCENARIOS

• 1. During the course of a robbery, a young boy, age 14, kills the shopkeeper because she refuses to hand over the money.

• 2. In the same situation as above [1], the shopkeeper and robber wrestle, the gun goes off and kills the shopkeeper.

• 3. The same as above [2], but the gun was originally in the hands of the shopkeeper.

• 4. The same as [1] but the shopkeeper kills the boy with the shopkeeper’s gun and it is found out afterward that the boy’s gun was a toy water pistol.

• 5. A female driver and mother of three, with a BAC of .08, strikes and kills a pedestrian.

• 6. In the same scenario as above, the female with a BAC of .28 kills two bicyclists.

• 7. A male driver, with a BAC of .24 hits a telephone pole and the passenger, a neighbor’s young son, is killed.

• 8. A female, age 18, attends a party, drinks too much and on the way home is raped by her date. Afterwards, because of the fear of being caught, the date strangles her to death.

• 9. In the same scenario as above, the girl is taken home after the rape. The next day she takes a gun and kills her rapist.

• 10. A terminally ill patient receives the equipment and drugs to terminate their own life. The patient takes their own life, by themselves, and the doctor [or company] who gave the patient the material to do it is accused of murder.

• 11. In the same scenario as above, the patient’s husband helps administering the drug. He is charged with murder.

• 12. At a park in the city, three female bodies are found. The arrested person admits to killing them. She is given a mental test and it is determined that her IQ is 55.

• 13. In the same scenario as above, the arrested person has chronic history of drug abuse and was under the influence of crack cocaine at the time of the killings

• 14. A child dies and it is determined through an autopsy that the death was because of a ruptured appendix, a problem that is almost always treatable if the patient sees a doctor. The parents are arrested for child abuse but state that they did not seek medical attention for their child because of religious beliefs. The state tries both for murder

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