This week we discuss legal punishment and what type of crimes, if any, should be punishable by death.

Please answer two of the following questions:

[1] Is the death penalty appropriate for the sexual assault of a minor? Why or why not? And what about the death sentence for the killing of police officers or other public figures?

[2] Do you think it is right to release the man John HinkleyJr. from the mental hospital that his held him for some 35 years? In 1981, John HinkleyJr. shot President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to assassinate the President? Do you agree with his recent release? For a news video on the case, see: LINK (Links to an external site.)