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without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp. People who witness the reality each and every night on t...
In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...
penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty w...
The death penalty, as controversial as it may be, should be valid option in todays criminal justice system. Unless such a radical...
deterrence is concerned, according to Lippke, "Research into the deterrent effects of the death penalty... has failed to show that...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...
be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...
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...
theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...
on the bandwagon for the death penalty but rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...
In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...
In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...
overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...
crime committed, there must be appropriate punishment possibilities in the system. For example, if the death penalty is available ...
that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...
death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...
In five pages this paper examines the differences in the support of capital punishment espoused by this trio of 2000 presidential ...
In a paper consisting of eight pages capital punishment is presented in an overview along with the heated passions that inspire th...
In six pages this paper assesses the debate from both sides before arguing in favor of the morality and effectiveness of capital p...
In five pages Massachusetts' legislation regarding the death penalty is examined in terms of inability for the approval of capital...