Finale

     Capital Punishment, whether it is right or wrong is one of the most controversial topics today. The majority of media shows Capital Punishment as a bad thing, although I am neutral on it I think that it is better for the media to show Capital Punishment as a negative as it gives the audience a sense of trust and security. I think the media should show a more neutral and informative side to it rather than having a bias, even if it isn't obvious what side they're taking. I think some people would like a choice in how they die, how their story ends and how they are remembered. No matter what people do wrong, I think they are stilled owed the choice on whether they would like to be executed and save themselves from what happens in prison or let themselves rot away and be forgotten. Capital Punishment has had a big impact in the news but it really isn't a very important thing to talk about and I feel like it's blown way out of proportion. There is no need for people to run crying that the death penalty is murder, everyone dies eventually, when you commit a crime that gives you life in jail or death, you're basically already dead and are rendered useless to society even if you do only get life in jail. Let the prisoner choose his punishment between the two options he/she would have and then the media will finally stop making it seem like a huge issue.

Capital Punishment in Print Media

     When looking at multiple news reports from different cities ranging from Canada to the United States, the majority of print media I read about the topic the more I found that most are for the death penalty, saying that nearly every inmate they execute they save up to 18 lives. Personally I don't think that is true but nonetheless someone who wasted years of their life studying how to deal with a criminal appropriately suggests it to be accurate. I'm not sure if this is because the news papers covering it are generally down in the southern states where there's not much to do other than drink some beer and marry your sister and this is just an excuse to kill some people but it does seem to be working for them. Maybe they know something places like Canada doesn't, besides, if you have a life sentence for killing someone what do you have to loose by killing another who's in there for 5 or 7 years who actually has something to live for. I admit the print does have a very different view on Capital Punishment than most other mediums I have covered, but I don't think there's a right or wrong, I just think people should do whatever gets the job done and move on with their day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18deter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Capital Punishment in Films

     The film industry has quite a few films with capital punishment in them but only a few actually revolve around it. The film industry generally stays quite neutral with capital punishment and whether or not it is good or bad by making the story make you want it to happen to the bad guy or showing the people who are executing others to seem in a position where you have no choice.
     Many people are familiar with a very popular movie called The Green Mile that is about someone who is on death row after being falsely accused of a crime. There are cops that have no choice but to go through with it and when they find out the man should not be sent to death, they can't do anything to stop it. The movie shows capital punishment in a bad way in the sense of a good person being falsely accused. The director also shows capital punishment as a good thing when you look at the really messed up people that go into these prisons and you realize some of them deserve to die. 

Music Against Capital Punishment

     After searching through many songs and various websites I only seemed to find the music industry against the death penalty. Whether there were musicians with death penalty themed songs in interviews explaining they think it's a bad thing or in the lyrics themselves, they all seemed to be against it? Why? I find that musicians are generally quite caring and open minded and care about people. I don't particularly think all musicians are against the death penalty of course but possibly the ones who are for it don't write songs about it to avoid controversy. All in all I don't think it's whether they are for it or against it but you definitely make better sales being sensitive and saying it's wrong. It's not necessarily a big part part of music today compared to other things but it is there and artists are sharing their opinions on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RnDJ1pyCM

A Blogger's View on Capital Punishment

     A blog generally consists of one person's opinion/bias. This gives the reader the ability to put a face behind the words they are reading and have the feeling of putting human emotions to the words rather than a dull informative article. The majority of blogs I came across were generally love and peace type people wishing to abolish the death penalty and make everyone just skip around loving one another, although we know that just isn't going to happen, it isn't realistic. Although I wonder why people have so much remorse for people they don't know or deserve it. I understand that some people are just unworldly caring and generous to a point where it doesn't make sense but at the end of the day the person would probably prefer the death penalty than rotting in a prison. I wish I could have found a blog unbiased to a certain side of this and explain why people care so much about capital punishment as it doesn't affect the world around them.
    People commonly say the death penalty is murder, but it's not. It is killing, the people doing it have the authority to do so and even if they didn't it's justice and a whole lot better than having a killer or rapist run loose on the streets. There is a very big difference between murdering someone and killing someone for what they have done wrong, and the people doing it are the once pulling the trigger, but who loaded the gun?
http://deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.ca/

Capital Punishment in the news (Television, Radio, Newspaper)

Let me start of with saying I do not want to speak about this, the amount of drama this issue creates in the news gives me the most horrendous headaches hearing about it. They generally have people's opinions go up saying that it is right and we should tear them limb from limb like an animal, or that it is so wrong and people should stop killing, violence is not the answer and get so sensitive and upset about psychopaths that they don't know, understand or have the right to speak for them by requesting capital punishment to go away. Technically the news itself doesn't have much of an impact on this situation since unless they have an opinion from someone outside of the station they aren't really going to give their own. They seem to lean more towards the people promoting peace and keeping people alive to ensure their audience believes everyone who works there and everyone they talk to are saints but the news doesn't generally bias one opinion.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/capital-punishment-wrongful-conviction

Introduction to Capital Punishment

     My social issue which honestly shouldn't be a social issue at all is on capital punishment. If you think about it, people have been killed for their actions for years upon years, but at some point we decided to make it an official way of gaining justice. I live in Canada so I'm not necessarily the biggest capital punishment expert but I'll at least put my two cents in of what the media portrays it as. It's different based on your location, of course in Canada because we are "the greatest country in the world" and everything we frown upon it because of how sensitive we are to all things violent. In the U.S it is much different, of course because of the wide variety of people shoving their opinions down each other's throats it is hard to estimate who thinks what. The media in Canada makes it seem heartless and cruel to do that to someone and we can all hug our conflicts away, although who says it's a bad thing? If you committed a crime would you rather be killed and it would be over just like that or go to a stinky prison with stinky people and rot for the rest of your life while being beat up and raped once in a while most likely which everyone agree does not seem very fun, and in my opinion at lot worse than being killed which takes away all that time you would have wasted picking your nose in the prison. Or look at it from a victim stand point, would you rather watch someone rot like I said or watch a bullet go through their brain or their neck snapped? Different people have different preferences I guess and maybe we as a global community need to all stop being close minded to having one or the other and agree maybe it isn't right nor wrong and that maybe just let the victim or the guilty choose what they want because either way they will no longer be contributing to society so what does it really matter. In the U.S. they make criminals getting capital punishment seem like ruthless beasts but I bet you could sit down with nearly 80% of them and have a cup of coffee and discuss the good ol' days or share a story or two, they're sure to have some good ones to share. It's not whether or not capital punishment is a problem, it's how the media portrays it that makes it right or wrong, and that is what the problem is.