Man Faces Murder Charges After He Admits to Suffocating Student
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/nyregion/03student.html?scp=1&sq=murder&st=nyt

By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: September 2, 2008

Found in NY Times

Thesis
A 22 Year old man is being faces being charged with murder after he suffocated a student, in his own apartment, and then carelessly staying there to watch a movie.

Class Connection (s)
This article connects to John Locke's Social contract
and The Rule of Law concept.

This article connects to John Locke's social contract - People let the government exists to so that their natural rights (human rights) protected. It connects in that this 22 year-old man murdered another person therefore taking away one of his natural rights , life, and now according to laws that have been established the government has the police to arrest this man and he goes to trial. They are trying to convict him of murder that way he will go to prison and other people's natural rights are being protected. It also goes into The Rule of Law concept were in a rule of law country you must follow the laws, or else you will pay the consequences. Here this man did not follow the law and he murdered somebody, therefore he must now be convicted and he will have to be in prison to pay for what he did.