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Abolish Capital Punishment

row inmates, it performs its most solemn duty. However, if the state makes a mistake, there is no possible way it can rectify its ...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Death Penalty for Juveniles

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

The Death Penalty and the Catholic Church

the church flip flops but it seems to skirt the issue. The Church does not order deaths, but the church often looks the other way....

Financial Perspectives on the Cost of the Death Penalty

With many states teetering on the brink of fiscal bankruptcy, banning capital punishment is an extremely cost-effective way of low...

The Death Penalty is a Good Deterrent

researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...

An Assessment of the Death Penalty

objection to the death penalty is that it is inhumane for one human being to kill another. That, however, is precisely the point ...

An Argument for the Death Penalty

another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...

The Death Penalty and Mental Retardation

arguments about the death penalty run the gamut and include rhetoric embracing issues of constitutionality to morality to fairness...

Service Experience and the Death Penalty

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...

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...

International Law Matters

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

Rape and the Death Penalty

This paper argues that the death penalty is appropriate for murder, but not for rape. There are two sources listed in the bibliogr...

DEATH PENALTY: ARGUMENT AGAINST

Presents arguments against the death penalty in the United States. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography of this 7-page ...

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

In Support of Capital Punishment

The death penalty, as controversial as it may be, should be valid option in todays criminal justice system. Unless such a radical...

English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"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...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

Society and the Benefits of Capital Punishment

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

Stating a Case Against the Death Penalty

actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

The Death Penalty, Pro and Con

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

The Death Penalty, Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Is the Death Penalty Administered Fairly?

same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

Argument: The Status Quo Favoring the Death Penalty is Unjust

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...