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In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....
In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...
the study results that support their position and ignore other research. Studies that compare homicide trends in states and countr...
applied, was arbitrary and capricious" (67). While it seemed as if the death penalty was beginning to become less popular, this ca...
In twelve pages this research paper discusses crime sentencing, politics, and the controversy surrounding legislative guidelines r...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...
believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...
death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...
In seven pages this paper considers capital punishment and three arguments such as retribution, intolerable capital offenses, and ...
penalty was much more likely to be imposed. While Texas and California do not share the same frequency in use of capital pu...
punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...
- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...
In ten pages this paper examines the sentence of Timothy McVeigh within the context of various death penalty issues. Twenty sourc...
In six pages Marxist ideology is employed in a discussion of capital punishment, class differences, and why the practice should no...
In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...
History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider &...
of "real-world effects" anyway . In other words, the penalty will not act as a deterrent if in fact murderers are oblivious to the...
example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...
This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...
justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...
putting up a front or in other words "that part of the individuals performance which regularly functions in a general fashion to d...
topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...
toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...
Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...
of the cycle is arbitrary and is defined according to the assessment needs of the organization. It can be assessed in terms of a ...
at the wrong time"), it would be counterproductive both to my brother and to the community to remove him completely from any oppor...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...