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Should Federal Courts Review State Death Penalty Cases?

was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...

In Support of Capital Punishment

penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...

Social Engineering and Predatory Crime

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

Lethal Injection

used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Why Capital Punishment is Necessary

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

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...

Death Penalty Debate

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

The Death Penalty: Murderers and Rapists

car accidents). In light of how diverse murder can be deemed in the courts of law it seems important to note that the death penalt...

Examination of Various Governors

history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...

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...

Classical/Choice Theory and the Death Penalty

this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...

Death Penalty; Research Results

penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...

The Death Penalty: Obsolete and Useless

A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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: 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...

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 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...