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Capital Punishment or Life in Prison

executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...

Abolishing Capital Punishment

In ten pages this paper presents an argument if favor of abolishing the death penalty in case studies that include Dr. Jack Kevork...

Death Penalty Overview

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

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...

The Death Penalty and Juveniles

(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

International Law Matters

centralized law-maker, a centralized executive enforcer, and a centralized, authoritative decisionmaker," it seems that there is n...

Rape and the Death Penalty

This paper argues that the death penalty is appropriate for murder, but not for rape. There are two sources listed in the bibliogr...

DEATH PENALTY: ARGUMENT AGAINST

Presents arguments against the death penalty in the United States. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography of this 7-page ...

English Social Critique Utopia by Thomas More

"For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to refrain men from theft," because there is no pu...

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...

Constitutionality and Capital Punishment

During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

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...

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...

Positive and Negative Aspects of the Death Penalty

than the death penalty, noting that life without parole is more effective than death (participial phrase), partly because the conv...

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...

Determinate Proposal on Death Penalty Propensity and a Juror's Gender

juror was a woman. Although only one woman serving on the panel of one jury in only one of the many criminal cases tried daily th...

Death Penalty and the Views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, and Plato

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

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...

Proposing Texas Abolishment of the Death Penalty

In this paper consisting of five pages the accomplishments of abolishing the Texas death penalty and necessary actions to do so ar...

Capital Punishment History

In five pages this report examines the history of the death penalty in the U.S. in a presentation of background material to be use...

Aspects of the Death Penalty

In eleven pages the various factors relevant to the death penalty are considered in an argument against it along with some inclusi...

The Death Penalty and the Catholic Church

the church flip flops but it seems to skirt the issue. The Church does not order deaths, but the church often looks the other way....

Financial Perspectives on the Cost of the Death Penalty

With many states teetering on the brink of fiscal bankruptcy, banning capital punishment is an extremely cost-effective way of low...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Juveniles and the Death Penalty

turmoil and chaos and argument concerning the morality of the practice and the constitutionality. One must also understand the a...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Death Penalty for Juveniles

has been, and is, a great deal of talk and controversy about the death penalty in the United States. There are many people who fee...

Abolish Capital Punishment

row inmates, it performs its most solemn duty. However, if the state makes a mistake, there is no possible way it can rectify its ...

The Juvenile Justice System and Violent Juvenile Offenders

The latter part of the Twentieth Century was characterized by a growing concern over what was perceived as a growing propensity...