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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 Ce nter. [|News 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.