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executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...
In ten pages this paper examines the sentence of Timothy McVeigh within the context of various death penalty issues. Twenty sourc...
"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...
In five pages this essay refutes each of the arguments posed by proponents of California's death penalty. There are four bibliogr...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...
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...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...
actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...
that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
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...
prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...
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 ...
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...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
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...