Essays 61 - 90
do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
juror was a woman. Although only one woman serving on the panel of one jury in only one of the many criminal cases tried daily th...
In a paper that contains seven pages the capital punishment issue are examined in terms of gender differences with a consideration...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
death penalty to be Constitutional (White, 2006). It is interesting to note that many nations around the world, democratic...
foremost and absolutely critical to the success of any community cohesiveness; oftentimes just the presence of too many patrol off...
be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...
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...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
be involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...
the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...
proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...
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...
and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...
researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...
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...
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...
this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
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...
history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...
same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...