Eugenics Current Event

Who: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood

What: Advocated practices such as eugenics

Where: United States

When: December 1921

Why: "Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the Eugenic educator … the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit’ is admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization[.] … The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective."
Link: Eugenics Article

Anti Death Penalty

Joseph Rudolph Wood III

Given death penalty

July 21, 2014

Arizona

The cocktail of drugs used was highly ineffective and took the man around two hours to die. This was a painful and avoidable event that was unnecessary 

Pro Death Penalty

Craigslist Killer

Death penalty recommended by Jury

March 20, 2013

Ohio Cattle Farm

A jury on Wednesday unanimously recommended Richard James Beasley be sentenced to death for killing three men who had answered a Craigslist ad for work on an Ohio cattle farm.