The Death Penalty

This picture is a scene from Deadman Walking. A famous film based on a true story about one experience of capital punishment.The laws regarding the death penalty are changing in America. You would think that in a civilised society that capital punishment would be on its way out. Elisabeth Semel, a death penalty's specialist said the intention of the new proposed regulation was, "To make it more difficult for people who have been sentenced to death in state courts, including those sentenced without adequate representation and resources, to avoid being executed." If this is the case then it is basically killing people without giving the the proper opportunity to defend themselves which sounds like a crime to me. Murder is a crime it is immoral whoever is doing the killing. how can the right punishment a person for murder or rape, or what ever other crime has been committed by murdering them. I may be oversimplifying it but to me it doesn't make sense. 123 innocent people have been sentenced to death, who is getting punished for there murders and what punishment should they get?

This is a link to a website that disscusses the pro's and con's of the death penalty.
www.balancedpolitics.org/death_penalty.htm

Tattoos

Tattoos have a history going back 5ooo years. they can be seen in the history of every culture around the world. There were for many reasons, tribal, a representation of there status and sometimes it was purely decorative.

This is a picture of a Hawaiian female hula dancer. Tradition Hawaiian tattoo art was known as 'kakau'. They were sometimes done to guard peoples health as well as decorative reasons.There are many examples of tattoos dating back thousands of years all over the world. Its not a new trend, its just become more popular. Even though your less likely to see tattoos nowadays for any other reason then decorative. Its no difference to why many peoples wore tattoos when they first started.I don't have any tattoos myself. Only because I couldn't pull them off. Also I would probably pick something really stupid as well that I would regret later on. Many people can get tattoos they might regret. My friend has a tattoo saying mum on his bum. That could be something he might regret. But really there's nothing wrong with tattoos. As long as you go somewhere that's licenced then I cant see the problem.

Below is a link to website with the history of tattoos from around the world.

http://www.designboom.com/history/tattoo_history.html