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was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...
The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...
prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...
be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...
have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...
generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...
death penalty to be Constitutional (White, 2006). It is interesting to note that many nations around the world, democratic...
foremost and absolutely critical to the success of any community cohesiveness; oftentimes just the presence of too many patrol off...
"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...
and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...
that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...
actions if they involve pedophilia, rape or murder. The families of murder victims often wait for a verdict of death and believe t...
there will not be the endless appeals that follow the death sentence (Neumann, 2009). In addition, Wanzenreid notes that capital...
and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...
death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...
history of Arkansas, the first Republican governor for some time, almost a hundred years, and he was a man who believed in many po...
same crime, although clearly the crimes and criminals were different. This is not necessarily fair. When one looks into the trut...
researching this subject it seems that studies are scant at best. Also, there is a practical problem in researching the topic as m...
great damage to people and offers them little in the way of help. These people that are helped are not criminals perse, they are n...
objection to the death penalty is that it is inhumane for one human being to kill another. That, however, is precisely the point ...
another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...
arguments about the death penalty run the gamut and include rhetoric embracing issues of constitutionality to morality to fairness...
(Lithwick, 2002). But five justices would not look at the issue again, so the 1989 decision would stand (Lithwick, 2002). The iss...
centralized law-maker, a centralized executive enforcer, and a centralized, authoritative decisionmaker," it seems that there is n...
row inmates, it performs its most solemn duty. However, if the state makes a mistake, there is no possible way it can rectify its ...
This paper argues that the death penalty is appropriate for murder, but not for rape. There are two sources listed in the bibliogr...