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John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Gulf Corporation Council (GCC): Crime Law And Capital Punishment

living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...

The Capital Punishment Problem

executions would decline dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, but would increase a bit during the 1980s and 1990s (Dezbakhsh ...

The Death Penalty, Pro and Con

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

Capital Punishment Defense

do not become innocent or less deserving of punishment because others escaped it" (van den Haag 51-68). Being a supporter o...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

Demographic Significance in Statistical Assessments

who favor capital punishment, 86.1% are white, and just 5.6% are black. In regards to sex, 53.2% of respondents were female, and...

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...

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...

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...

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's Negative Aspects

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Victorian Era Writing

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...

Closed Chambers by Edward Lazarus

In five pages Lazarus's text on the Supreme Court is analyzed with such issues as capital punishment and desegregation discussed a...

Gender and the Death Penalty

In a paper that contains seven pages the capital punishment issue are examined in terms of gender differences with a consideration...

Federal and Georgia State Constitutions Compared

In eight pages the Federal Constitution and Georgia State Constitution are compared on three issues of abortion, capital punishmen...

Deterrent of Capital Punishment in Texas

In six pages the use of capital punishment as a crime deterrent in Texas is discussed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliogra...

Capital Punishment and the U.S. Constitution

In five pages this paper discusses the 5th and 8th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution with regards to capital punishment. Five s...

Dead Man Walking Film Ethical Analysis

In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...

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 ...

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...