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- 16341: Adult Punishments For Children
- ... never be formed correctly because he would never be able to learn society's moral standards. When, and if these children are released from prison, they won't know how to react in the adult world they failed to learn about. Children need to learn what is right from wrong, and they can't learn correctly in types of correctional facilities made for adults. When that little boy shot his sister ...
- 16342: The Death Penalty Is An Inappropriate Punishment That Must Be Abolished
- ... if the leaders do not act responsibly, then the citizens have no moral obligation to act responsibly either (Porter n.pag.). In addition, the United States is one of only six countries throughout the entire world that still allows capital punishment. The United Nations criticized the U.S. for monitoring other countries' human rights violations when the U.N. considers capital punishment just as serious as any other violation (Death 72 ...
- 16343: Albert Camus
- ... later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation. Dr. Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms Camus's words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them". Other well-known works ...
- 16344: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment The United States is one of the few countries left in the world to practice the savage and immoral punishment of death. Retentionists argue that the consequence of death prevents persons from committing the heinous crime of murder. It is proven that the death penalty does not deter ...
- 16345: The Death Penalty for Justice and Safety
- ... spent staring up and being brutally violated for someones lust. And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest. Gasping, thrashing, his life in this world about to end, he must have twisted frantically, like a trapped dog being smothered. Struggling, panic then darkness, and finally only a limp childs body, no longer worth the pleasure, thrown into a drainage ...
- 16346: "Legalization of Marijuana"
- ... side. After many years of fighting to keep it illegal, the government would have to spend millions on new laws, regulations, and plans. Also the government has made treaties with other countries on keeping the world drug-free. America being the largest supporter of a drug-free society would be absolutely hypocritical to go and legalize. Other countries would become angry and think of us as money greedy, drug smoking fools ...
- 16347: Capital Punishment and Issues
- ... burning alive, crushing, tearing asunder, stoning, and drowning are examples. In the U.S., the death penalty is currently authorized in one of five ways: hanging (the traditional method of execution throughout the English-speaking world), electrocution (introduced by New York State in 1890), the gas chamber (adopted in Nevada in 1923), firing squad (used only in Utah), or lethal injection (introduced in 1977 by Oklahoma). In most nations that still ...
- 16348: Crime and Gangs In America
- ... the "ghosts" of crime. If lack of education was a cause for one turning to crime, then we would have to account for the tens of thousands, of people throughout history in America and the world who never turned to crime, but who had very little education. The same holds true for environment. The early American settlers lived in poverty but it did not turn them to crime. Crime was comparatively ...
- 16349: Drug Trafficking In Mexico
- ... analysis of the effort's failure comes as some members of Congress gear up to try to overturn the Clinton administration's decision last week to certify Mexico as fully cooperating in the anti-drug war. These opponents argue that Mexico has not taken significant steps to fight drug trafficking or related corruption. Every attempt to organize binational law enforcement units along the border has failed since DEA agent Enrique "Kiki ...
- 16350: The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered to Eighteen
- ... would still be young people that would abuse this privilege; however, with time there would be fewer abuses. In a land built on individual freedom, it is strange that we are sent out in the world as adults, yet denied the opportunity to make such a simple choice. I think eighteen-year-olds should be granted this opportunity.
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