Blog 19: Fourth Article

                The article that I read today didn’t really teach me anything new.  It was pretty much the same as the other articles.  It honestly didn’t really help me come up with an arguable claim about the death penalty and the morals behind it.  I will have to read another article, and possibly replace this one so that it does allow me to relate it with the argument I am making a little bit better than this article does.  Although the article did not completely help me figure out a lot of additional information I can incorporate into my paper, I was able to find some pretty interesting information about the death penalty, and the public’s opinion on the death penalty. This article was written about the death penalty in China.  It stated that in certain situations were a criminal was sentenced to the death penalty; there have been instances where the public has asked for leniency from the death penalty for the criminal sentenced to it.  This struck my interest because most of the Chinese population is for the death penalty.  The article said that a little over 80% of the people of China agree with the death penalty, but at the same time, it looks as if these same people are asking for leniency for some who are sentenced to the death penalty.  Maybe this is because the death penalty in China is used too often for crimes that do not exactly deserve the death penalty.  Which crimes do deserve the death penalty?  In The United States, only the most severe crimes are deserving of the death penalty, but are our standards enough? I’m not sure, that is something I will have to look research.