Essays 61 - 90
topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...
In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...
do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...
that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...
executions would decline dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, but would increase a bit during the 1980s and 1990s (Dezbakhsh ...
In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...
be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...
living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...
death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...
In ten pages this paper examines capital punishment in an overview that includes its history, public opinion, and the ongoing cont...
This paper discusses the death penalty or capital punishment in ten pages and considers the issue within historical and contempora...
In a paper consisting of two pages a proposed survey designed to produce questions that would promote answers that would determine...
In twelve pages this research paper discusses crime sentencing, politics, and the controversy surrounding legislative guidelines r...
In eleven pages 3 differing liberal and Green Party perspectives on capital punishment are presented in an argument that the death...
In seven pages these countries are compared regarding capital punishment in posing the argument the the U.S. should abolish it. T...
In six pages Marxist ideology is employed in a discussion of capital punishment, class differences, and why the practice should no...
In five pages the cost of capital punishment is examined in terms of finance and morality. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...
In seven pages this paper examines the issue of capital punishment and presents an argument strongly opposing it with mention of w...
In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...
In nine pages political, social, and economic issues are considered in this discussion of juvenile offenders and capital punishmen...
In six pages this paper discusses whether or not Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of the anarchist affiliation for which they receiv...
executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared wit...
In eight pages this essay considers Texas style capital punishment and its history from lynchings, the electric chair to lethal in...
Department received hundreds of callers asking to be chosen for the firing squad after a USA Today article suggested that the stat...
In five pages Massachusetts' legislation regarding the death penalty is examined in terms of inability for the approval of capital...
that the Constitution contains a "right to die" (Callahan 10). But apparently, those liberals who have made such a mess of the la...
This paper consists of fifteen pages and argues that capital punishment does not represent a sound deterrence to crime with variou...
In five pages this paper defends the practice of capital punishment for certain instances and discusses it as a serious crime dete...
by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment...
This paper consists of ten pages and considers the connection between capital punishment usage and race. Six sources are cited in...