. According to the Death Penalty Information Center (2016) “the three-drug protocol uses an anesthetic or sedative, typically followed by pancuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate and potassium chloride to stop the inmate’s heart” (para. 1). Rights, morality, and the criminal justice systemChristopher Williams and Bruce Arrigo (2012) in the textbook Ethics, Crime and Criminal Justice report “while it is common in everyday language to refer to “character traits” moral philosophers have historically used the more specific virtue and vice to refer to traits of character that are regarded as “good” or “bad” in moral contexts” (p. 190). Moral virtues are the good characteristics that causes a person to act morally. Moral vices are the negative character traits that cause a person to act immorally.

LEA 339 DISCUSSION 1: STUDENT 1:      STUDENT 2:If I were a police executive facing more budget cuts and needed to make some cuts I would cut overtime. I would have to make sure supervisors are being held responsible to monitor overtime. The use of overtime can highly leveraged expenditure and cost maybe 50% more than regular staffing. A way to fix it would be to assess the overtime usage by identifying the need for staff transfers, schedule adjustments, or increased staffing levels. If a person needs overtime then it needs to be approved. Monitoring sick leave is another budget cut. It’s like overtime, people using sick leave should be monitored. For example, the person who uses sick leave has to have someone replace them and that person will end up with overtime. Another cut could be the equipment that is being spent on “luxuries” equipment. For example, cellular phones or leather chairs.Lowering the budget by repairing and renovating instead of replacing items. For example, the maintenance department could easily fix items instead of replacing an item because it would be easier than to fix it. The last thing that can be minimized is the promotion testing officers. It should be done twice a year and so officers could have time to purchase their own materials and pay for their test.I think letting these items first, second, third and so on would be a great place to start to see if it can make a difference before getting rid of programs that are needed like community policing, SWAT, and so many others. It shouldn’t affect the department too much. If anything it would affect the extra money police officers maybe looking for.   LEA339: DISCUSSION 2STUDENT 1:         STUDENT 2:   A past preferred method of execution was hanging which, was found to be cruel and unusual punishment when many times the neck of the hanging person did not break forcing them to endure the agonizing death of suffocating to death. The electric chair was then the new method of carrying out the death sentence however, after reported cases of inmates catching on fire during the electrocution it was also deemed cruel and unusual punishment. Currently the preferred method of euthanasia is lethal injection. According to the Death Penalty Information Center (2016) “the three-drug protocol uses an anesthetic or sedative, typically followed by pancuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate and potassium chloride to stop the inmate’s heart” (para. 1).     Rights, morality, and the criminal justice systemChristopher Williams and Bruce Arrigo (2012) in the textbook Ethics, Crime and Criminal Justice report “while it is common in everyday language to refer to “character traits” moral philosophers have historically used the more specific virtue and vice to refer to traits of character that are regarded as “good” or “bad” in moral contexts” (p. 190). Moral virtues are the good characteristics that causes a person to act morally. Moral vices are the negative character traits that cause a person to act immorally. Moral virtues cause an individual to act in a way that benefits themselves or others, while moral vices cause an individual to act in a way that is harmful to themselves or others.