Essays 961 - 990
all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...
the statute was unconstitutional in its application" (p.132). There had been 5 people exonerated on Death Row in this state, but...
through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...
that one persons death can benefit a great number (how many lives would have been saved if Hitler had been killed in WWI?) but tha...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...
of the United States has upheld the Christian notion that taking a life under any circumstances is wrong and therefore illegal. I...
At the same time, in the early 20s, "opportunities for young black men in Tulsa...were severely circumscribed, regardless of educa...
the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...
car accidents). In light of how diverse murder can be deemed in the courts of law it seems important to note that the death penalt...
that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...
death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...
there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...
light and dark, and sweet and sour. Some may see this phenomenon metaphorically as a dance. The point is that death is a part of l...
and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...
one critic notes it does not matter if many are killed or one very close personal individual was killed, the truth was that "so it...
great damage to people and offers them little in the way of help. These people that are helped are not criminals perse, they are n...
First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...
researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
objection to the death penalty is that it is inhumane for one human being to kill another. That, however, is precisely the point ...
another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...
arguments about the death penalty run the gamut and include rhetoric embracing issues of constitutionality to morality to fairness...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...
dead for ever" (Turnbull, 1987, p. 42). The reaction to this death is a "burst of uncontrollable grief, not only from relatives, b...
2004). When fighting broke out, Patrick Henry rose to the position of commander in chief of the states troops, "but he was preven...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...