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Death Penalty Issues and Problems

murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe that should be the case. This is because they...

Death Penalty's Negative Aspects

about their feelings about the death penalty, 60 to 80 percent believe the death penalty should continue (Robinson). However, when...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Support for the Death Penalty

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Changing Driver’s License Age Limits to Save Lives

description shows the factors that are common in crashes involving teens: a 16-year old boy was driving; he was in an SUV; there w...

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 ...

The Death Penalty is a Good Deterrent

researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...

The Death Penalty, Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System

there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Is the Death Penalty Administered Fairly?

same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...

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...

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...