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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...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

Against the Death Penalty

a moral or an ethic is right for it is a very personal reality. As such one can only persuade another to their side with the under...

Death Penalty Supporting Argument

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

Controversy: Death Penalty

in "cases involving a person who is convicted of multiple first-degree intentional homicides, if the homicides are vicious and the...

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

Arguing in Favor of Capital Punishment

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the death penalty can serve as a crime deterrent as illustrated by large city ...

Refuting the Death Penalty

of the most common reasons given to support capital punishment is the notion that executing a criminal is somehow a necessary act ...

Capital Punishment

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the impacts of the death penalty. This paper reflects an argument against the dea...

Death Penalty in Michigan

illustrates that incapacitation without the death penalty is possible through incarceration (Bedau, 2004). Even when these two rat...

A Reply to van den Haag

is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

The Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

which may or may not be constitutional one must look at the Constitution itself and what the focus is all about. When...

Death in Hospice Verses Death in Death Row Incarceration

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

Death Penalty Opinion Surveying

In fifteen pages this report considers a survey development regarding the measurement of secondary student views regarding the dea...

Analyzing Canto XIII of 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

Australia and Euthansia

In five pages euthanasia is examined regarding its Australian legal status with a discussion of a nonprosecuted 'assisted death' c...

Process of Grieving

In five pages the grieving process is discussed in terms of the Bible and scripture views regarding death and eternal life in the ...

Criminal Justice System and Its Current State

ineffective as a crime deterrent. The rising rate of the prison population attests to this fact. Although the prison syste...

History and Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

used often and for less severe crimes, such as stealing and forgery" (Anonymous Beheading, burning, and hanging 2D). The list ...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

US Society and the Death Penalty Argument

Penalty, 2002). Society has changed considerably since the 14th century BCE, and it is evident that the way in which our so...

An Effective Closing Argument in a Death Penalty Case

one chosen for consumption. Bill was only 14 years old. Mike dies after rescue and Mark seems to have had a psychotic break. Mark ...

Argument: The Status Quo Favoring the Death Penalty is Unjust

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...

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...

Overview of Criminal Rehabilitation

In nine pages criminal rehabilitation is examined in terms of the crime deterrence of the death penalty and statistics regarding i...

Change of Heart by John Slattery

In seven pages this paper examines the issue of capital punishment and presents an argument strongly opposing it with mention of w...

Massachusetts and the Death Penalty

In five pages Massachusetts' legislation regarding the death penalty is examined in terms of inability for the approval of capital...

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...