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Discrimination in Imposing the Death Penalty

by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment...

Capital Punishment and Race

This paper consists of ten pages and considers the connection between capital punishment usage and race. Six sources are cited in...

Crime Deterrence and the Effectiveness of Capital Punishment

In five pages this paper examines the deterrence effectiveness of capital punishment and also considers any minority population im...

Roberts v. Louisiana and Mandatory Capital Punishment

In nine pages this paper examines mandatory capital punishment in a historical chronicle that includes Roberts v. Louisiana, the l...

Utah, Choice, and Capital Punishment

Department received hundreds of callers asking to be chosen for the firing squad after a USA Today article suggested that the stat...

Juveniles and Capital Punishment

executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared wit...

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...

Family Corporal Punishment and the Impact It Has on Children

punishment as a type of punishment which is painful and inflicted intentionally, usually by hitting or striking a child as a physi...

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 Capital Punishment Problem

executions would decline dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, but would increase a bit during the 1980s and 1990s (Dezbakhsh ...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Demographic Significance in Statistical Assessments

who favor capital punishment, 86.1% are white, and just 5.6% are black. In regards to sex, 53.2% of respondents were female, and...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper argues that the high probability of error is sufficient to abolish capital punishment in the United States...

Dead Man Walking Film Ethical Analysis

In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...

Death Penalty Overview and Opposition

In a paper consisting of eight pages capital punishment is presented in an overview along with the heated passions that inspire th...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

Capital Punishment and the Positions of Presidential Candidates Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Pat Buchanan

In five pages this paper examines the differences in the support of capital punishment espoused by this trio of 2000 presidential ...

In Favor of Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper assesses the debate from both sides before arguing in favor of the morality and effectiveness of capital p...

Capital Punishment Law Justifications

In five pages this paper discusses how federal capital punishment imposition can be justified. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

U.S. and Saudi Arabia on Capital Punishiment

In six pages this paper compares and contrasts capital punishment implementation between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in a discussion...

Capital Punishment in Islam

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

Deterrence of Capital Punishment

are erroneously convicted, the possibly of error looms large. In fact, if capital punishment is construed as something that is al...

Arbitrary Definition and Current Capital Punishment Sentences

- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...

Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and r...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

Capital Punishment Should Remain in Place

and that is a problem. At the same time, for a host of reasons, the death penalty should stay. It is a punishment that is sorely n...

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...