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about their feelings about the death penalty, 60 to 80 percent believe the death penalty should continue (Robinson). However, when...
In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...
living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...
souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...
In four pages the autistic savant is the focus of this informational overview. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
Iin six pages this paper examines the colonial era's unfair treatment of individuals suffering from mental illness. Four sources ...
In five pages this paper examines mentally retarded adolescence and the increases in juvenile crime which result. There is the in...
In seven pages this paper examines the Pacific Hospital research study and its outcomes as featured in Cloak of Competence by Robe...
with fewer or no disabilities" (Disability definitions, 2005). In addition, they often have additional disabilities "including mov...
p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
this implies that if an individual has been convicted of murdering another human being, then the death of that person is justified...
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...
history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...
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...
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...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
A 12 page paper which discusses how and why the death penalty is obsolete and useless. Bibliography lists 10 sources....
used (The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, 2007). In relationship to Oklahoma there was a bill which was passed, "writte...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...
there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...
and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...
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...
researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...