The Death Penalty Is An Inappropriate Punishment That Must Be Abolished
.... that must be abolished.
It is true that the death penalty is becoming increasingly more popular and widely used in the United States. Ever since the death penalty was ruled constitutional again in 1976, the rate of executions per year has risen tremendously fast, especially in the last few years. There were no more than 30 executions nationwide in a single year until 1992, and that number jumped up to 74 in 1997 (“Execution” n.pag.). These 74 executions in the 38 states in which capital punishm .....
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Gun Control: Simple Solution Or Ticket To Trouble
.... State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Hofstadter, 1970)
This brings us to the question: what is gun control and how far should our government go with these laws? You want to make the nation a safe place to live, but you also need to abide by the Constitution, which is the basis of our nation.
As you can probably expect, there are many arguments on the pro side that are sound and quite relevant. Many of them are merely statistics that will help you see why many .....
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Adult Punishments For Children
.... young people haven't even attended school, and here they are, being tried as adults. A person's childhood is where one learns about life. One learns right from wrong, good from evil, and how to control one's emotions. What would happen if the courts took away this precious learning time from a youth? The youth wouldn't learn exactly why he was imprisoned. His morals would never be formed correctly because he would never be able to learn society's moral standards. When, and if these children are re .....
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The Effects Of Organized Crime
.... When the Fascists
fled Sicily during the Allied invasion of World War II, the Mafia--the only
remaining governing structure--worked closely with U.S. forces. Today it
dominates much of the business and industry in Sicily's cities.
With the Sicilian immigrations of the late 19th century, the Mafia
began to operate in several large U.S. cities. Two of the strongest mafia
gangs in New York where controlled by Joe "The Boss" Masseria and Salvatore
Maranzano. They were known as the "Mustache Petes".
Durin .....
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Crime And The Death Penalty
.... cruel it is for them. But, shouldn’t we think of the
families that are broken apart now because of the merciless acts of these
criminals. Think of Susan Smith, how she knowingly drove her car off into
a lake with her two children strapped to the seats. Think of how they must
have felt as the cold water started to fill the cabin of the car, and then
ultimately drown them. Barbaric is exactly the word I would use to
describe her actions. But yet, the jury rejected the death penalty and
chose a life sentence .....
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Attacks On The Insanity Defense
.... In all, I believe
that these problems, as well as others which will be mentioned later, lead
us to the conclusion that the insanity defense is useless and should be
abolished entirely. Insanity is a legal, not a medical definition.
Therefore, mental illness and insanity are not synonymous: only some mental
illness constitutes insanity. Insanity, however, includes not only mental
illness but also mental deficiencies. Due to this, there are problems in
exactly how to apply a medical theory to a legal matte .....
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Prohibition...A Waste?
.... where with
prayer and song they demanded—with transitory results—that saloonkeepers
give up their businesses. By 1900, millions of men and women were beginning
to share this hostility toward the saloon and to regard it as the most
dangerous social institution then threatening the family. The Anti-Saloon
League of America (ASL), organized in Ohio, effectively marshaled such
people into political action. State chapters of the ASL endorsed candidates
for public office and demanded of their state govern .....
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The Mafia
.... Sicilian approach to crime was metastasizing, sending out its aberrant
cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the United
States” (True Crime).
Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. “
Of the approximately 5.3 million that have followed, approximately 25
percent came from Sicily” (Italian 4). The mass immigration took place
for many reasons. Many wanted to move because of poverty and rampant
inflation. Others wanted to move because of social and ec .....
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Decriminalizing Prostitution
.... whose
primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities, often
surviving on fear and corruption,” (“Interpool” by Fenton Bresler, page 1).
A person engaging in organized crime has the sole purpose of generating
profits from his/her victims. His crime is consciously and deliberately
thought out in order to make earnings as quickly as possible. The United
States Officials believe that the easiest form of organized crime is
prostitution due to the number of men/woman willing to be custome .....
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Capital Punishment
.... By the 1850s these reform efforts began to bear fruit. Venezuela (1853)
and Portugal (1867) were the first nations to abolish the death penalty
altogether. In the United States Michigan was first state to abolish it
for murder in 1847. Today, it is virtually abolished in all of Western
Europe and most of Latin America.
In America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (except Israel) most
countries still retain the death penalty for various crimes and impose it
with varying frequency.
Shooti .....
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Capital Punishment
.... have the right to live, but have to face each day with
the fact that they killed someone weighing on their conscience. On the
other hand, such as with a voluntary murder, the ideas are somewhat similar.
They believe the murderer doesn’t deserve the death penalty. Chances are
if a person is insane enough to kill another human being in the first
place, they aren’t going to care what happens to them. They realize that
their execution, in most cases, is going to be short and painless. This isn’
t a just p .....
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The Issue Of Gun Control
.... the second amendment of the
Constitution of the United States of America and licensing restrictions
penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of
handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be
bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the
personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the
sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate
involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handg .....
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Pros And Cons Of Capital Punishment
.... a sermon at the Martha Vineyards
Tabernacle in New Hampshire. He told his congregation, which included the
vacationing President Clinton and his wife, that capital punishment is
wrong. "I invite you to look at a picture of Timothy McVeigh and to
forgive him," said Miller. "If we profess to be Christians, then we are
called to love and forgive." Once the sermon ended, Rev. Miller, Clinton,
and their wives got together for brunch at the Sweet Life Cafi.
What the Rev. did not know was that 24-year-old .....
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Differences Between Various Crimes
.... of carrying out a felony. An example of this would be
when a person breaks into your house and steals money or possessions from
you. Robbery is when the perpetrator takes personal property from another
against their will while threatening to do bodily harm or damage. An
example of this would be when a bank robber holds up a bank and orders the
tellers to hand over money to them while holding a gun in their hand. The
robber is threatening to harm the workers while steeling the money.
Define discovery .....
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The Impact The Death Penalty Has On The Global Community
.... death penalty.(The
Death Penalty In America) One qoute I found that I agree with is this "No
matter how careful courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony
mistaken honest testimony and human error remain all too real. We have no
way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be
certain there were some."(The Death Penalty In America) Now days there are
a lot more advanced technology such as the DNA testing that they can use
to prove someone's innocence. The criminals ha .....
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