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  • Death Penalty Cases
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    Why the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished? Why should the death penalty be abolished? The death penalty should be abolished because of many reasons. Many people believe the saying, "an eye for an eye". But when will people realize that just because someone may have killed a love one that the best thing for that person is to die also. People don't realize that they are putting the blood of another person life on their hands. This makes them just as guilty as the person who committed the crime: th...
  • Wrongful Convictions And The Costs Of Executions
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    Capital punishment is an act of executing, killing, or putting one to death for committing hideous crimes. In the state of Georgia, crimes such as treason, murder, and aircraft high jacking, can cause conviction of the death penalty. Race, wrongful convictions, and the costs of executions are some of the controversial issues surrounding capital punishment. Race plays an important role when determining the death penalty. In a study conducted by the General Accounting Office found that 82% of the ...
  • Death Penalty As A Type Of Punishment
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    The death penalty has been an ongoing debate for many years. The following essay will not solve the issue either; I will only try to persuade the reader to understand my point of view. The death penalty has both supporters and non-supporters. The death penalty is justified in certain cases such as Mcveigh vs. State of Indiana; however it is unjustified when in other cases, including Bloodsworth vs. State of Maryland. The death penalty is a must, especially in today's society. With the increase i...
  • Discrimination And The Death Penalty
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    "Leave the people free to do as they please (Stephen Douglas as cited in Safire, 261)". This sentiment would seem to apply to the argument in favor of the death penalty, or capital punishment. In our democratic system, we must listen to the people. And on the critical issue of capital punishment, the people of the United States agree it must be used (Ogloff, 2). The following discusses why the American people agree with our present system. Capital punishment is necessary because it deters crime....
  • Federal Hate Crimes Law
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    ... ng Rehnquist logic in Mitchell, the state of Texas could have easily achieved their goal by prohibiting public burning, a legitimate exercise of their police power, and enhancing the penalty for those convicted of violating the statute if they did so in opposition to the government (Gellman, 380). Therefore, penalty enhancement laws such as Wisconsin's give the government too much power to excessively punish what it deems unacceptable. Clearly, when the legislature enacts penalty enhancement...
  • Deterrent Effect Of The Juvenile Death Penalty
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    Juveniles: Too Young To Die? By Aaron DechantEnglish Comp. I AMr. Keller In 1643 a sixteen year old boy was put to death for sodomizing a cow. Three hundred and fifty years later, sixteen states have legitimized the execution of juveniles. Four of those twelve states have lowered the legal age of execution to twelve. For whatever reasons the death penalty has been supported by the public since this country's existence. In this day and age of increasing violence, both juvenile and adult, it is ti...
  • Death Penalty For Life In Prison
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    I agree with the law that people who commit crimes need to be punished for their wrong doings. However, I do not agree with the way that the law thinks that problem should be handled through the death penalty. The bad part about the death penalty is that innocent people are executed, there is racism in the death penalty, the mentally retarded are executed, and the death penalty is costly. As long as the death penalty is maintained, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated. Peop...
  • Death Penalty To Cancer
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    Death Penalty: Barbaric or Justice? Julian Pta chin was only 14 years old in October 1997 when a drunk driver smashed into his parents van. His Dad, a physician, had to hold Julian while he died on the side of the road. The drunk driver was a three-timed convicted, repeat offender. He was convicted of second-degree murder and was ordered to serve eight years in jail. Doesn't something seem wrong with this picture? Repeat crime convicts are running down the streets rapid: endangering our children...
  • Anti Death Penalty Extremists
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    Death Penalty While you are sleeping, at 3: 00 in the morning, your house is broken into. The violators find your daughter, viciously rape and murder her, as they hold you back making you helpless, and there is nothing you can do about it. Would you want capitol punishment for these violators, or just another slap on the wrist? One lady in California said "I want them to pay". Just a few months after this, this very thing happened to her. The Death Penalty is one of the most controversial laws i...
  • Death Penalty Costs
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    Anti-Death Penalty Let us suppose that killing, as a form of punishment, is morally and universally accepted. Would it then be acceptable to issue this to some, while letting others avoid it? It is acceptable to our criminal justice system for it seems to be standard operating procedure. Many believe the death penalty based on the "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" concept. The death penalty is improper due to the price and time of executing someone, that it isn't a deterrent against violent cr...
  • Support For The Death Penalty
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    In the following pages, I will discuss the history, debate, past and current public opinion, and how it applies to American ideology and opposing values. Both sides have a fair amount of support and I have included direct quotes and paraphrasing from authors, celebrities, journalists, and ordinary people arguing both sides. The history of the death penalty goes back to the earliest civilizations where it was used to punish all sorts of crimes from robbery, to murder, to different forms of heresy...
  • Case Against The Death Penalty
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    Crumley English 112 17 Sep 00 The Case Against Death Penalty This article was written by Eric M. Freedman, and was printed in the USA Today, magazine in March of 1997. Let us start right there with Mr. Freedman. Since this article appeared in the USA Today I assumed that this man was probably one that knew what he was talking about and probably well respected among his peers. He is a professor at Hofstra University School of Law where he teaches Constitutional Law and the Death Penalty. He has a...
  • Alternative Solutions For The Death Penalty
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    After reading "The Death Penalty" by William Raspberry several topics surfaced in my mind. The death penalty is unjust and very ridiculous sentence for a human being. Capital punishment is not as effective as most people believe. There are alternative and beneficial solutions in place of the death penalty. Why we have the death penalty is very puzzling question to me. Personally I believe the death penalty is a hypocritical decision. The law states that it's wrong to commit murder yet a judge or...
  • Most Sophisticated Death Penalty Statutes
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    Discrimination and the Death Penalty By Katie Matthews "Twenty years have past since this court declared that the death penalty must be imposed fairly, and with reasonable consistency, or not at all, and, despite the effort of the states and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet this daunting challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake". -Justice Harry Blackmun, Feb. 22, 1994. Capital punishment is one of the most de...
  • Use And Meaning Of The Death Penalty
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    Should the death penalty exist in modern day society As the number of churchgoers continues to climb, many religions have made their stands against the death penalty well known. Although most people may not want to believe it, there have been a number of innocent people killed by the death penalty. And with the public not being able to witness executions, how do we as a society get the message out in hopes of deterring people away from crime Many churches adamantly oppose the death penalty. To n...
  • Death Penalty
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    Dead. Wrong. Most people do not know what goes on during a death penalty. The following is an eye witness account of an Arizona gas chamber execution given by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "When the fumes enveloped Don's head he took a quick breath. A few seconds later, he looked again in my direction. His face was red and contorted as if he were attempting to fight through tremendous pain. His mouth was pursed shut and his jaw was clenched tight. Don then took several more quick gulp...
  • Valid Argument Against The Death Penalty
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    Is the Death Penalty Right or WrongThe idea of putting another human to death is hard to completely fathom. The physical mechanics involved in the act of execution are easy to grasp, but the emotions involved in carrying out a death sentence on another person, regardless of how much they deserve it, is beyond my own understanding. I know it must be painful, dehumanizing, and sickening. However, this act is sometimes necessary and it is our responsibility as a society to see that it is done. Oppo...
  • Death Penalty And The Number Of People
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    A man sitting in a dark room is blindfolded. His legs and his hands are tied. 2,000 thousand volts of electricity rip through his body. It only takes five seconds for this man to be dead. He wasn't a victim of a random crime nor is he sitting in a casino basement. This scene that I just described is perfectly legal in America. He just received the harshest penalty the American justice system can administer. Capital punishment continues to be a controversial topic in American culture. In this pap...
  • Death Sentence For Twenty Five Different Crimes
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    "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good". - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) This is a dissertation on the Evolving Standards of Decency in America's judicial system in relation to capital punishment. The first of three arguments in this abstract show how, when, and why America will come to embrace a complete moratorium on capital punishments. Evolving Standards of Decency demonstrates that through the history of America (and the world) people have come to...
  • Death Penalty Cruel And Unusual Punishment
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    Death Penalty Introduction: The most severe of all sentences: that of death. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment this is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it is requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender. It has been banned in many countries, in the United States, an earlier move to eliminate capital punishment has now been reversed and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. An Eye for and eye, a life...

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