Democracy Now 3

Cynthia Davila

March 7, 2014 

Sociology 

Democracy Now 3

The 2 topics that I covered this week on democracy now were very interesting. The first one was about how the senate rejected independent oversight on sexual assault. They rejected a action that would have moved the hold of military sexual assault cases outside of the secures of command. Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democratic Senator, led a campaign to be able to strip military commanders of authorities over sexual harassment and assault. The reason for this is in favor of an independent military prosecutor. Democrats joined with the republicans to defeat that proposal and I feel like I would be one of those democrats also but then again it shows a report of 26,000 sex crimes within the ranks in 2012. In conclusion, Senator Gillibrand paid tribute to the military sexual assault victims who stepped up and came forward to the lobby congress. I think it's crazy how people would give up their uniform and place in the military to believe in so strongly that they do need to be seen and help the system. 

The other topic I learned about was about a Colorado prisoner who avoided death penalty with backing of victim's father. He is a Colorado prisoner that drew a huge shock over the efforts of his victim's father to spare his life. The Colorado prisoner, Edward Montour was facing execution for the 2002 killing of prison guard Eric Autobee. Thursday, Montour entered a plea deal that will sentence him to life in prison instead of death! Bob Autobee, the father of Eric entered a statement asking the jury to not impose the death penalty because it was too cruel of a punishment and it just shows Edward how lucky he is and that there are nice people out there that could save you within seconds although he killed his son. I feel like that Bob is a blessing, what he did is really incredible.