Essays 121 - 150
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
on the bandwagon for the death penalty but rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...
in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...
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, ...
the system already, it involves people who have been in prison for years, some of them on death row. With the many recent discover...
it is not administered fairly. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more black people are incarcerated than white people. The criminal...
capital punishment can be applied to the three capital offences of first degree murder, felony murder, and capital drug trafficki...
on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...
about their feelings about the death penalty, 60 to 80 percent believe the death penalty should continue (Robinson). However, when...
that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...
without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...
Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...
be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...
are erroneously convicted, the possibly of error looms large. In fact, if capital punishment is construed as something that is al...
murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...
crime committed, there must be appropriate punishment possibilities in the system. For example, if the death penalty is available ...
Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and r...
when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...
- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...
who favor capital punishment, 86.1% are white, and just 5.6% are black. In regards to sex, 53.2% of respondents were female, and...
that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...
be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...
In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...
executions would decline dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, but would increase a bit during the 1980s and 1990s (Dezbakhsh ...
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 ...
punishment as a type of punishment which is painful and inflicted intentionally, usually by hitting or striking a child as a physi...
sea and easily fortified by land was brilliant strategy. It commanded the trade route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea...