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Aspects of the Death Penalty

In eleven pages the various factors relevant to the death penalty are considered in an argument against it along with some inclusi...

Positive and Negative Aspects of the Death Penalty

than the death penalty, noting that life without parole is more effective than death (participial phrase), partly because the conv...

Death Penalty's Negative Aspects

about their feelings about the death penalty, 60 to 80 percent believe the death penalty should continue (Robinson). However, when...

Capital Punishment from Ethical and Moral Perspectives

deterrence is concerned, according to Lippke, "Research into the deterrent effects of the death penalty... has failed to show that...

Death Penalty Supporting Argument

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

Against the Death Penalty

a moral or an ethic is right for it is a very personal reality. As such one can only persuade another to their side with the under...

Controversy: Death Penalty

in "cases involving a person who is convicted of multiple first-degree intentional homicides, if the homicides are vicious and the...

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

Capital Punishment

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the impacts of the death penalty. This paper reflects an argument against the dea...

Refuting the Death Penalty

of the most common reasons given to support capital punishment is the notion that executing a criminal is somehow a necessary act ...

Death Penalty in Michigan

illustrates that incapacitation without the death penalty is possible through incarceration (Bedau, 2004). Even when these two rat...

Arguing in Favor of Capital Punishment

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the death penalty can serve as a crime deterrent as illustrated by large city ...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

A Reply to van den Haag

is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...

The Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

which may or may not be constitutional one must look at the Constitution itself and what the focus is all about. When...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Death in Hospice Verses Death in Death Row Incarceration

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

International Law Matters

centralized law-maker, a centralized executive enforcer, and a centralized, authoritative decisionmaker," it seems that there is n...

History and Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

used often and for less severe crimes, such as stealing and forgery" (Anonymous Beheading, burning, and hanging 2D). The list ...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

Gulf Corporation Council (GCC): Crime Law And Capital Punishment

living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...

Analyzing Canto XIII of 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

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...

Opposition to the Death Penalty

be involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...

Death Penalty Cases and Sentencing

proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...

The Death Penalty and Juveniles

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...