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In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

Florida and the Death Penalty

capital punishment can be applied to the three capital offences of first degree murder, felony murder, and capital drug trafficki...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Article by Leonard Pitts Jr. on Capital Punishment and Ethics

on the bandwagon for the death penalty but rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

Reasons the U.S. Should Use Capital Punishment

History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider &...

Analysis of an Article by New York Governor George Pataki on Capital Punishment

my predecessors had ignored the urgent calls for justice from our citizens-their repeated and pressing demands for the death penal...

Kenya and the Death Penalty

but not all that many actual sentences carried out. Knowing the background of the death penalty in the nation, it comes as no sur...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

the loss of a life, even if that life is at the hands of the justice system. Introduction: Consider this: As long as the death...

Capital Punishment Defense

do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...

Consequentialism and Capital Punishment

more important than the outcome. The latter sees the consequences as the most important thing and so would exceed the speed limit ...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

Forensic Science and Capital Punishment

the system already, it involves people who have been in prison for years, some of them on death row. With the many recent discover...

Capital Punishment and Racial Inequities

it is not administered fairly. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more black people are incarcerated than white people. The criminal...

Ethical Support for Capital Punishment

without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...

Capital Punishment in Islam

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and r...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Deterrence of Capital Punishment

are erroneously convicted, the possibly of error looms large. In fact, if capital punishment is construed as something that is al...

Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...