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Capital Punishment Argument

In five pages this paper defends the practice of capital punishment for certain instances and discusses it as a serious crime dete...

Discrimination in Imposing the Death Penalty

by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment...

Capital Punishment and Race

This paper consists of ten pages and considers the connection between capital punishment usage and race. Six sources are cited in...

Crime Deterrence and the Effectiveness of Capital Punishment

In five pages this paper examines the deterrence effectiveness of capital punishment and also considers any minority population im...

Roberts v. Louisiana and Mandatory Capital Punishment

In nine pages this paper examines mandatory capital punishment in a historical chronicle that includes Roberts v. Louisiana, the l...

Utah, Choice, and Capital Punishment

Department received hundreds of callers asking to be chosen for the firing squad after a USA Today article suggested that the stat...

Juveniles and Capital Punishment

executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared wit...

Overview of the Death Penalty in the U.S.

The Death Penalty, 2002; p. 22). They offer up the following questions which plague the country in regards to capital punishment: ...

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...

Florida and the Death Penalty

capital punishment can be applied to the three capital offences of first degree murder, felony murder, and capital drug trafficki...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

Death Penalty's Negative Aspects

about their feelings about the death penalty, 60 to 80 percent believe the death penalty should continue (Robinson). However, when...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

U.S. and Saudi Arabia on Capital Punishiment

In six pages this paper compares and contrasts capital punishment implementation between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in a discussion...

Capital Punishment Law Justifications

In five pages this paper discusses how federal capital punishment imposition can be justified. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Death Penalty Overview and Opposition

In a paper consisting of eight pages capital punishment is presented in an overview along with the heated passions that inspire th...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper argues that the high probability of error is sufficient to abolish capital punishment in the United States...

Capital Punishment and the Positions of Presidential Candidates Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Pat Buchanan

In five pages this paper examines the differences in the support of capital punishment espoused by this trio of 2000 presidential ...

In Favor of Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper assesses the debate from both sides before arguing in favor of the morality and effectiveness of capital p...

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...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

American Ambivalence Regarding the Death Penalty

overpopulation. For a prisoner over the age of fifty-five years old, the upkeep can be as high as sixty thousand dollars per year...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Juvenile Crime and the Death Penalty

believes he can take the life of another without reciprocal discipline is a concept many find difficult to grasp, a point well tak...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

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 &...

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...

Analysis of an Article by New York Governor George Pataki on Capital Punishment

my predecessors had ignored the urgent calls for justice from our citizens-their repeated and pressing demands for the death penal...

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...