Pa+Homicide+Scenarios,+Examples,+Questions

__PA Laws PA Homicide Scenario__ A pregnant woman is walking down the road. When she's walking, a man jumps out of a bush. He can see that she is pregnant, and he hates babies. He stabs her, and she dies. Her baby also dies. What crimes are the man who stabbed her guilty of?

__Local News Story__ Harve Lamar Johnson in York county, PA was recently sentenced to death. April of 2008 Harve beat 2-year-old Darisabel Baez, his girlfriend's daughter, with a cord and hiking boots. The child was pronounced dead the next day at Hershey Medical. [|New story article]

__HOT Questions:__ 1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the punishment for murder. Does it deter others from committing murder?

2. Compare and contrast the moral and legal implications of assisted suicide and it's punishments.