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Justice Defined

the group prosper (147). First of all, before considering what constitutes justice within a community, it is first necessary to ...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Capital Punishment and Racial Inequities

it is not administered fairly. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more black people are incarcerated than white people. The criminal...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Forensic Science and Capital Punishment

the system already, it involves people who have been in prison for years, some of them on death row. With the many recent discover...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

Ethical Support for Capital Punishment

without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...

The Murder Problem in New Orleans

there is nothing to fall back on and their lives will never be the same. Everything changes and so people may break the rules of s...

Ed Koch's Take on The Death Penalty (Article Analysis)

that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...

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...

Didion, Smith and the Illusion of New York City

assume there was no problem; if she and the puppies had died, it would have made a huge impact on Smith and he would have written ...

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...

The Capital Punishment Problem

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

Pros and Cons: Animal Experimentation and Capital Punishment

all animals react differently to products. The article does not appear to offer any vague or ambiguous statements for any claim ...

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 ...

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

Reasons the U.S. Should Use Capital Punishment

History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider &...

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...

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...

Life in Prison v. Death Penalty

for the criminal, and again, victimizes the families. Advocates of the Death penalty offer that it costs too much to keep s...

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...

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...

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...

An Article Analysis on Illegal Immigrants That Appeared in The New York Times

Hispanic Center), during 2001, the "unauthorized" labor force in the U.S. totaled 5.3 million workers. Out of this were 700,000 re...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Christian Church and Capital Punishment

the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Kenya and the Death Penalty

but not all that many actual sentences carried out. Knowing the background of the death penalty in the nation, it comes as no sur...