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An Argument for the Death Penalty

that the Constitution contains a "right to die" (Callahan 10). But apparently, those liberals who have made such a mess of the la...

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...

Ineffective Deterrence of Capital Punishment

This paper consists of fifteen pages and argues that capital punishment does not represent a sound deterrence to crime with variou...

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...

Texas and Capital Punishment

In eight pages this essay considers Texas style capital punishment and its history from lynchings, the electric chair to lethal in...

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...

Capital Punishment in Islam

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Life in Prison v. Death Penalty

for the criminal, and again, victimizes the families. Advocates of the Death penalty offer that it costs too much to keep s...

Deterrence of Capital Punishment

are erroneously convicted, the possibly of error looms large. In fact, if capital punishment is construed as something that is al...

Arbitrary Capital Punishment

when the death penalty is suitable and when it is not. For example, in California, the death penalty must only be administered in ...

Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

Black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white crime rate, consistent with blacks lower socioeconomic status and r...

Abolition of the Death Penalty

crime committed, there must be appropriate punishment possibilities in the system. For example, if the death penalty is available ...

Arbitrary Definition and Current Capital Punishment Sentences

- at least sometimes - just as culpable as adults" (Taylor, 2005, p. PG). Capital punishment was not only utilized as a...

Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

Capital Punishment from Ethical and Moral Perspectives

deterrence is concerned, according to Lippke, "Research into the deterrent effects of the death penalty... has failed to show that...

Consequentialism and Capital Punishment

more important than the outcome. The latter sees the consequences as the most important thing and so would exceed the speed limit ...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Capital Punishment Should Remain in Place

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...

England's Crime and Crime and Punishment from 1800 to 1850

times when social change occurred (Emsley , 1987). In many ways the examination of the way those who are accused of committing cri...

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...

Kenya and the Death Penalty

but not all that many actual sentences carried out. Knowing the background of the death penalty in the nation, it comes as no sur...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

the loss of a life, even if that life is at the hands of the justice system. Introduction: Consider this: As long as the death...

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...

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

several Christian societies which still use the Bible as a basis for their arguments for the death penalty. Largely, however even ...

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...

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 ...