Bones: The Man on Death Row

In Bones Season 1 Episode 7, Brennan is applying for a weapon, for when she goes with Booth to arrest the murderer and the murderer doesn’t cooperate, and Booth denies her application. Brennan asks why did they go through all the interview and Booth replies,” You have a constitutional right to apply for a weapon. I would never deny your constitutional right.” I agree with Booth because everybody has a right to apply for a weapon but not everybody deserves to have a weapon and that is why the government makes people apply for a weapon instead of just giving them a weapon. Not everybody deserves a weapon because some people have bad backgrounds, and those people don’t deserve a weapon but still have the right to apply for a weapon. Deserving to do something and having the right to do something is totally different. Deserving to do something is worthy of being treated in a particular way and the right to do something is a moral or legal enlightenment to have or obtain something. So therefore deserving and having the right to do something are two different things. Also in Bones Season 1 Episode 7, a man, Howard Epps, is scheduled to be executed for raping a 17 year old girl and his new lawyer, Amy, thinks that he is innocent. Amy goes to Booth, the arresting officer, to try and convince him that he is innocent, but Booth doesn’t buy it. Epps went through two different juries and two different judges, I believe that Epps was guilty the entire time because, why would Ross kill the girl just for having sex with her? All the evidence pointed toward Epps, so why go back and examine a case that was closed 7 years ago. I still believe that he shouldn’t have been put on the death row, because that shouldn’t exist. Amy says, “When are they going to put a stop to the death penalty?” Brennan replies, “I believe in the death penalty. There are certain people that shouldn’t be in this world.” I agree with Amy they shouldn’t have a death penalty, just put the person in prison for life. Putting the person on death row is basically committing murder. If they get rid of the death penalty and just have in prison for life then that’s not murder because they are letting the convicts live their lives and not killing them. They don’t deserve to die they just don’t deserve to live out in the world if they committed a crime.