Amendment 20 New York Times “Alcohol Derailed His Life. Now He Makes Sure Barflies Get Home.” November 7, 2017 National, Pg 26 Summary Of News Article This article is about Carlos Nin, a recovering alcoholic who used The New York Times’s Neediest Cases Fund to help recover. Carlos lost his house, his wife and his job because of his problem. He had tried to become sober twice before, but failed both times. After being fired from his second job, Carlos decided he needed to re-evaluate his life again. That is when he went to The New York Times’s NCF. With there help, Carlos turned his life around. He got a job being a late night Uber driver at night, and a part time parking garage worker during the day. He used funds from the Neediest Cases Fund …show more content…
In 1972, the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional in the Furman vs. Georgia case because it was administered arbitrarily. Because of this, many states had to rewrite their death penalty laws in an attempt to only use it on the worst of the worst. In the Gregg vs. Georgia case in 1976, the state decided that there must be an official list of aggravating factors which would determine whether or not the person could be sentenced to the death penalty. They failed to mention how many aggravating factors there could be, however. Arizona’s first list of aggravating factors only had five factors. Their most recent list has 14. The article argues that there should be a national set of aggravating factors that all states should use, find a different way of killing people or the death penalty should be shut down all …show more content…
On September 25th, President Trump tweeted: “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can't kneel during our National Anthem!” There is already a policy in the NFL that states that players must stand during the National Anthem. When asked about this, NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy said: “It’s policy, it’s not a rule. I think where people are getting confused is, rules, that’s like holding or defensive pass interference, that’s a rule. This is policy.” McCarthy went on to clarify that while it tends to be frowned upon, not following NFL policies is not against NFL rules, and players who do not follow the policies will not receive any sort of penalty Amendment