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Capital Punishment and the Moral Dilemma It Presents

In ten pages this paper evaluates capital punishment in terms of its societal pros and cons and considers moral dilemma resolution...

Opposing Capital Punishment

In six pages this report presents a moral argument in opposition of the death penalty and also considers how a greater crime deter...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Reasons the U.S. Should Use Capital Punishment

History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider &...

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 ...

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...

Capital Punishment Law Justifications

In five pages this paper discusses how federal capital punishment imposition can be justified. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

In Favor of Capital Punishment

In six pages this paper assesses the debate from both sides before arguing in favor of the morality and effectiveness of capital p...

U.S. and Saudi Arabia on Capital Punishiment

In six pages this paper compares and contrasts capital punishment implementation between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in a discussion...

US and New Jersey's Capital Punishment History

the Supreme Court decision of Furman v. Georgia (Freitas PG). This decision stated that the death penalty constituted cruel and u...

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...

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 ...

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...

Juvenile Offenders and Capital Punishment

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

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...

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...

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...