Punishment
I believe Cece McDonald punishment was justifiable. She was sentenced to second degree murder, where as, at first she was sentenced to first degree. Though, she made a plea deal with the attorney, she would pleaded guilty and her sentenced would be reduced to second degree murder, instead of first. There is a difference between first degree and second degree murder. First degree is more planned out, with the intention to kill, and has a longer incarceration, while second degree is not planned out and is done with passion. Second degree is with the intention to harm, but not to kill. I believe her sentenced was justifiable because I believe she should suffer with the consequences of killing someone. Though, I do believe she acted …show more content…
I think people are still not comfortable with the fact that people are more open with their sexuality. In this generation, we may believe that society is more acceptable to people who are different, but the case is that they are not, hate crimes just proves that right. Society wants to believe that we are all more acceptable with people who are different from us, depending on their race, sex, social class, sexual orientation, nationality, or religion, but many people are not. Racism is all over the place, people judge others depend on their race and not by who the person is. Even depending on your sex, people treat you different. Just because you are a female, people believe you are girly, weak, and should stay in doors, but being a female does not defined who they are. Depending on your social class, people treat you different. You can most likely get away with many things for being rich, money can pay many things and even shut some people up. As much we try not to let our differences come between others, we are all humans and we make the mistake to judge other because who they associate …show more content…
If the attackers has no weapon with them, victims can not attack them with a weapon. Even if the attacker is bigger or stronger, we can not harm them with a weapon or it can be murder. There is little things people can do to defend themselves when it comes to attackers, even if our instinct is to defend ourselves, we can attack first or kill. Texas is one state where you can shoot trespassers whereas in any other state, you can get arrested for it. I think their should be laws describing what victims can do when getting attacked and their sentence should be more proportional and fair for the