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Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

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...

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 ...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Capital Gains and Ordinary Income as They Relate to Australian Tax Issues

usual trading of income creation hen it will be classified as ordinary income. One of or irregular payment are treated as a capita...

Death Penalty Cases and Sentencing

proposals to standardize this and other sentencing issues so as to increases in criminal activity in certain areas of the country ...

Opposition to the Death Penalty

be involved with the law when a capital case comes forth. Citizens are faced with ethical dilemmas that they would not come close ...

In Support of Capital Punishment

The death penalty, as controversial as it may be, should be valid option in todays criminal justice system. Unless such a radical...

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 ...

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 ...

The Commercial Choice between Equity and Debt As Capital

source of security is a mortgage on real estate. If the firm already has outstanding debts secured on property then this s...

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...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

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...

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...

Writers and the Importance of Audience

This paper examines the importance of selecting a proper audience for essays on the death penalty and abortion in 8 pages. The bi...