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and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...
same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...
Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...
A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....
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...
used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...
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...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...
(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...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
innocent person to be found guilty. On the other hand proponents of the death penalty look on DNA technology as a powerful safegua...
as their cases are rehashed over and over again is not only expensive but allows these criminals a chance to profit from their cri...
have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...
In five pages this report examines the history of the death penalty in the U.S. in a presentation of background material to be use...
In this paper consisting of five pages the accomplishments of abolishing the Texas death penalty and necessary actions to do so ar...
In eleven pages the various factors relevant to the death penalty are considered in an argument against it along with some inclusi...
In six pages this report presents a moral argument in opposition of the death penalty and also considers how a greater crime deter...
proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...
penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...
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 topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...
than the death penalty, noting that life without parole is more effective than death (participial phrase), partly because the conv...
Penalty, 2002). Society has changed considerably since the 14th century BCE, and it is evident that the way in which our so...
During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...