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"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

death penalty to be Constitutional (White, 2006). It is interesting to note that many nations around the world, democratic...

foremost and absolutely critical to the success of any community cohesiveness; oftentimes just the presence of too many patrol off...

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...

actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...

"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

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...