LEA316 DISCUSSION 1

LEA316 DISCUSSION 1Christopher Williams and Bruce Arrigo (2012) in the textbook Ethics, Crime and Criminal Justice state “the ethics of human rights begins with the natural law assumption that there is a certain universal moral order that exists apart from social, cultural, and historical conditions- a moral order which supersedes or “trumps” the “man-made” laws and so…………………Legal rights are given and protected by law. Christopher Williams and Bruce Arrigo (2012) in the textbook Ethics, Crime and Criminal Justice report “ this is especially true in criminal justice where the notion of rights typically refers to legal protections that people enjoy when interacting with representatives of the justice system” (p. 178). An example of this is the fourth amendment which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.Though there is some overlap between moral and legal rights, moral rights relates more to ethics. Christopher Williams and Bruce Arrigo (2012) in the textbook Ethics, Crime and Criminal Justice advise “some interpret moral rights as being ……………………..wledgement of moral rights can be seen in the evolution of the way the death penalty is carried out.A past preferred method of execution was hanging which, was found to be cruel and unusual punishment when many times the neck of t……………………………….en the new method of carrying out the death sentence however, after reported cases of inmates cat