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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 involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...
proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...
the topic, some history is in order. How has the death penalty been treated in Christian religions, particularly among the Protest...
actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...
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...
generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...
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 ...
prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
(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, ...
than the death penalty, noting that life without parole is more effective than death (participial phrase), partly because the conv...
Penalty, 2002). Society has changed considerably since the 14th century BCE, and it is evident that the way in which our so...
and that is a problem. At the same time, for a host of reasons, the death penalty should stay. It is a punishment that is sorely n...
one chosen for consumption. Bill was only 14 years old. Mike dies after rescue and Mark seems to have had a psychotic break. Mark ...
During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...
"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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...
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 ...
researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...
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...
objection to the death penalty is that it is inhumane for one human being to kill another. That, however, is precisely the point ...
another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...