Death Penalty

Topic

Death Penalty

Instructions

For this assignment, you will need find an article on a topic related to human rights. In addition, once you pick your topic, you may want to do online research to find additional information; however, this is not required.

Here are some examples that that you can use:

  • prisoner rights,
  • death penalty,
  • poverty,
  • women’s rights, or
  • LGBT rights.

Research your topic and discover the issues. Describe these in a few paragraphs, starting each new response with the question it addresses:

  • Where is your topic most relevant in 2014?
  • Who is most affected by the topic?
  • Apply the sociological perspectives on stratification to explain how social class and stratification affect your topic.
  • What are some projects in place that will address the problem (suggest one if none exist yet)?
  • Why did you choose your topic?
  • How has learning about the topic affected your ideas going into this assignment? Have any of your views changed since learning more about the topic?

You may also use your textbook to pick a different human rights-related topic, if you so choose.

Your response must be a minimum of two pages in length, answering the questions above. Use appropriate APA style and in-text citations and references.

Answer Preview

Death penalty is most relevant in 2014, as it was one of the years that significant number of States in United States of American (USA) carried out executions even in such a democratic- advanced world of 2010s in the twenty-first century (World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 2014). In 2014, the biggest number of States in USA still maintained laws that allowed death penalties and executions to take place, as more than 30 States with legal provisions allowing the process. States and District that had abolished death penalty by 2014 included  Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsi, and District of Columbia (Death Penalty Information Center, 2016).

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