infanticide law

From reading one of my classmate's blog about infanticide laws, it brought more interest and a little frustration after reading through it. Postpartum depression is an illness that can not be treated instantly by any means, and it can lead to very serious consequences. It can be quite sad to see a once happy family all shattered apart, but this is no means an excuse to use when mothers have killed their babies of less than a year old. I totally disagree with the fact that mothers who murder their child before the age of one can be forgiven because of their postpartum depression. A child's life is very precious because it is the beginning for the future,and no one should have to take the child's life in a flash for no good reasons. We can not just let mothers who claimed that they are in postpartum depression to be off the sentence of murder that easily. Instead, shouldn't we help mothers who suffer from postpartum depression and devise programs during their pregnancy to help them gain self motivation and confidence? With increase in researches and studies, scientists and doctors should devise programs that help mothers in their pregnancy and after the pregnancy stage to feel better about themselves. It is not a good idea to let mothers who claimed that they suffered from postpartum depression without finding the solution. We need to find a solution that can reduce and hopefully terminate the cause of postpartum depression. Although this depression is a mental disorder, it can still be treated and tended for with the proper care. I certainly think that using this excuse to let mothers off the case is a little too easy. We live in an unfair world, and by far we have to pay for what we deserve.





A second concern about this bill is that this world alone is made up of swindlers and con people who can ultimately have a bad intention. We don't really know whether the mothers really suffered from postpartum depression or whether she was faking it all time to ease her way out of the court. Even if there are millions of tests and lie detectors out there, a person would do anything to get themselves out of jail. People can do it once, and what happenes when they have the second child and history repeats itself? What shall we do then? That's why the only thing we desperately need is to help women during their pregancy stages, and not come up with excuses to let them kill their own child.

Death Sentence

The death sentence can be looked as two faces on a coin. It is both good and bad in a way for implementing such punishment to those that commits state crimes. Death sentence for one is a pretty straightforward method used in Texas by lethal injection. Prior to the usage of the lethal injection, Texas used electrocuted chairs to shock the offenders to their death. Those that are given the death sentence have committed a very serious crime often relating to homicides. Now the good side of the coin reflects that the death sentence is a punishment that can bring peace and assurance to the citizens in that county and to the families of the death ones. The citizens in the county can feel a little assured that one offender will be erased from this world, and they would hope that such crimes would decrease in their county. The families of the death ones feel that the death sentence has given their love ones the justice that he or she deserves. Although death sentence may mean that one less offender is living and it may give the victims the justices that he or she deserves, death sentence also has a negative impact on our state and how these judgments do not really reflect what death sentence can do. This side of the coin is all about how death sentence is just another punishment with an ironic reasoning. For one, those that are given the death sentences are those that have murdered, and now they too will be killed. It may sound more fair to be killed by a state law from injection than by any other forms. However, the point doesn't matter. What matters is that it is still a form of killing, which is murder!! Texas has always been ranked number one in issuing death sentences and number one with the most death sentence offenders. Is Texas competing among other states with this same law to always be ahead of the game? Instead, death sentences do not solve any fundamental problems. How is it going to decrease the numbers of murders in Texas? How will it prevent future crimes? How will it assure its citizens that they are living in a protective environment? Death sentences can not answer any of these questions because this punishment can not solve the bigger picture in life. What we need is to know that the crime rates will drop and the people need to know that they are living in a safe place. Death sentence can only provide immediate results for that one particular offender.

I do not object with the death sentence because I think that those that commit any sort of crime should pay back and serve their time. What I don't like about the death sentence is that it gives Texas a negative image besides not solving the bigger problem of crimes. For being ranked number one, Texas is thought to be very strict and very Republican. Does this infuriated the Democratic in Texas about the image that shaped Texas many decades ago? I also feel that Texas as well as other sates should implement laws that can change its society for the good of the people by promoting more active participation and benefits for everyone. Strict punishments are not always good. We are all kids in a way that we will obey to those that shows us more affection and true care compared to those that just punish. Thus, punishments do not always mean that people will learn and that it will do any good for the society. Texas should promote more positive activities for everyone of any group and they should truly care for the welfare of their citizens and not do it just for their job.