Week 5 Capital Punishment and Racial Bias

1. Is capital punishment an effective deterrent to murder or not? Please fully support your response.

2. Is sentencing blind to race differences? You may address this generally or in regards to capital punishment. As part of your response, include real life examples, empirical data, etc., which supports your view.

Discussions this week cover a lot of ground, effectiveness of capital punishment, racial bias in the system, sentencing disparity. Questions

Discussion Guidelines

Discussions open the Saturday prior to the official start of the week.

Students must start a thread (post your initial response) before he/she can view or reply to other threads.

Note: The discussion questions have been designed so that a response of approximately 500 words is typically needed to fully address the subject.

Students are required to make at least three (3) postings per week for the current Discussion topic which is the minimum and to receive full credit you must provide five (5) total posts, one (1) initial post and four (4) responses to others.

  • One (1) initial posting responding to the topic
  • At least four (4) responses to classmate postings that are substantive, relevant, and engaging

Students should provide supporting materials (must use proper attribution) to demonstrate/acknowledge the source of the information utilized to formulate the response.

Participation evaluation and assessment are at the sole discretion of the instructor.

Initial Post Due: Thursday, 11:59 p.m., ET

Responses Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m., ET

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