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Death Penalty Overview

favors cessation of capital punishment worldwide, but the United States has objections to this. They cite numerous reasons for th...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

also recognized that the "overburdened public defense attorneys" who often represent the poor may be a part of the problem that ha...

Discussion of the Death Penalty

In a paper consisting of seven pages the social standards that define capital punishment in America are considered in terms of whi...

Arguments Regarding Capital Punishment

In five pages capital punishment is examined in terms of pro and con arguments with no conclusions drawn. Seven sources are cited...

Crime Deterrence and the Effectiveness of Capital Punishment

In five pages this paper examines the deterrence effectiveness of capital punishment and also considers any minority population im...

Death Penalty Supporting Argument

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

Support for the Death Penalty

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

Why Capital Punishment is Necessary

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

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 ...

Death Penalty Debate

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

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 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 ...

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...

Moral Issues Involving the Death Penalty

innocent person to be found guilty. On the other hand proponents of the death penalty look on DNA technology as a powerful safegua...

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...

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...

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...

History of Capital Punishment

In ten pages this paper examines capital punishment in an overview that includes its history, public opinion, and the ongoing cont...

A Capital Punishment Overview

This paper discusses the death penalty or capital punishment in ten pages and considers the issue within historical and contempora...

Death Penalty and Various Perspectives

In eleven pages 3 differing liberal and Green Party perspectives on capital punishment are presented in an argument that the death...

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...

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...

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...

Sophism and Apology by Plato

In five pages this paper examines Socrates' arguments regarding capital punishment and the sophist foundation that cements them....

Letter to the Editor and Utilitarian Philosophy

In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...

Argumentative Death Penalty Paper

the study results that support their position and ignore other research. Studies that compare homicide trends in states and countr...

The Case Against Capital Punishment

applied, was arbitrary and capricious" (67). While it seemed as if the death penalty was beginning to become less popular, this ca...

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...