Current Events Quiz

1. Why did the grand jury decide not to charge deputy sheriff Randy McMillian? Page A1 "No charges in taser incident"
He had acted within departmental policies.

2. Why is the European court ruling about Google searches so interesting? Page A1 "European court: Google can be forced to remove links"
They can delete the searches.
3. Why did Michelle Obama recently have a photo taken of her holding a sigh with the words 'Bring home our girls'? Page A4 "US aircraft aid in search for missing Nigerian girls" BE SPECIFIC
Nigerian girls on a plane were kidnapped, and so everyone around the world is trying to make their situation known. And also trying to get them home again.

4. Why was the discovery of a chronometer such a big deal? Page B2 "Researchers: Chronometer was 'Big Discovery'"
It's extremely important for getting more information about past ship wrecks.
5. What will the iPad hopefully be able to do with the next software update? Page B8
It will be able to multitask.

REMINDER - Some of you are not writing enough here. A single sentence isn't enough. I expect you to expand upon your writing. If you think you have written enough, you haven't, write more. Be sure to answer WHY you think something.

Last week an inmate who was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma was given the lethal injection, but there were problems with the drug mixture and it took him over 40 minutes to die. While observers and prison officials watched he writhed and struggled before finally succumbing to a heart attack. Lethal injections and the use of the death penalty have come under fire because of this event. The problems really started about a year ago because the main supplier of the drug combination went out of business and states have struggled to find replacements that are as powerful and work as well. 

If someone has been convicted in a state that has the death penalty, what should the obligations of the state be when it comes to actually executing that person? I am not asking you what you think about the death penalty, just what you think the state should have to do when they are going to execute a person.

The state should just tell the person how they're going to die. It's really simple, death is death. And if this person deserves to die in the first place, then that means they don't deserve a painless death. I think it would be more than fair for the state to tell the person they are going to execute how they will die.