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Capital Punishment, Should It Or Should It Not Be Used In Today's Criminal Judging System
Number of Words: 1584 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the U.S. Constitution "prohibits cruel and unusual
punishments" and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital
Punishment ensures Americans equality for all . The abolitionists also did a
poll which ensured that there was "no support for the view that the death
penalty provides a more effective deterrent to police homicides than alternative
sanctions. Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in
jurisdictions that provide for capital punishment" The highest homicide rates
were also in Death Penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000
people as compar ...
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Against Gun Control
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... they were not; in cities with fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons.(5)The best available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the general adult population, indicates that guns are used about as often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6 The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7) Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) ...
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Freedom Of Speech: Censorship On The Internet
Number of Words: 2186 / Number of Pages: 8
... the Internet. The question of censorship may also be raised in some unexpected places: one newsgroup is the rec.humor list, which is a collection of jokes submitted to subscribers. There are straightforwardly rude jokes but others are politically incorrect, focusing on sexual stereotypes, mothers-in-law, women and so on. It has been suggested (Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 1994) that discretionary warning labels could be attached to potentially offensive material. With warning labels like those on records this may serve to whet appetites. Warning labels involve some sort of judging and t ...
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A Few Media Commandments
Number of Words: 681 / Number of Pages: 3
... about the addictive properties of the nicotine and refused to inform the public. Magazines, newspapers and billboard owners should be held accountable for promoting these types of products and are just as guilty as the cigarette manufactures themselves.
THOU SHALL NOT PROBE INTO PEOPLE’S PRIVATE LIVES
Another region where the media needs to be much less involved is in that of people’s private lives. Take for instance the Clinton sex scandal. This is clearly a personal matter between him and his wife, not that of the President and the public’s right to know his every action. A further issue involving ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 2290 / Number of Pages: 9
... Many countries, including most European and Latin-American nations, have
abolished the death penalty since 1900 - including Canada, which did so in 1976.
In the early 1990's, the United States was the only Western industrialized
nation where executions still took place.
History
Capital punishment was common among all ancient civilizations. It was used
for a variety of offenses that today aren't crimes at all, like stealing the
keys to someone's wine cellar.
There were many different methods of executions, and they all had a
barbaric quality. Some of the more vicious methods wer ...
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Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment Of A Criminal
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... In the 18th century more than two hundred
capital crimes were recognized, and as a result over one thousand people a year
were faced with the sentence of death.
Now at modern time, the death penalty, has been rekindled. Although,
it is not as barbaric as it was. Now the law only allows itself the use
certain types of “disciplining”. In the early 18th and 19th century the death
penalty was inflicted in many ways. Some ways were, crucifixion, boiling in oil,
drawing and quartering, impalement, beheading, burning alive, crushing, tearing
asunder, stoning and drowning. In the late 19th century the ty ...
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Murder
Number of Words: 1828 / Number of Pages: 7
... continues to be an extremely indecisive and complicated
issue. Adversaries of capital punishment point to the Marshalls and the
Millgards, while proponents point to the Dahmers and Gacys. Society must be kept
safe from the monstrous barbaric acts of these individuals and other killers by
taking their ability to function and perform in our society away from them. At
the same time, we must insure that innocent people such as Marshall and Millgard
are never convicted or sentenced to death for a crime that they did not commit.
In February 1963, Gary McCorkell, a 19 year old sex offender, was scheduled to ...
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Should Gambling Be Legalized?
Number of Words: 3862 / Number of Pages: 15
... longer, and loose as much money as possible.
Gamblers who come to casinos with the intention of winning money are
habitually disappointed. As casino crime lord, Meyer Lansky's universal
gambling truth states; "Gamblers never win, the house never loses"2 Slot
Machines and most table games allow players to make bets where the probability
of winning is relatively high. Frequent wins are characterized by low payouts.
These frequent wins encourage further gambles with low payouts.
Frequent winning, low paying games are not the only way casinos get
people to keep playing. Nothing less that psycho ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... any types of crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught
some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as
to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital
punish ...
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The Death Of Brian Deneke
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... As in most places, the people with similar interests are drawn to each other and different groups are formed. In every town or city, there will always be the popular group. The preps, the jocks, the cool kids, they inevitably seem to hang out together. At the same time, there will always be a group that doesn’t quite fit in, but never really wants to. There is quite often rivalry between different groups. In the city of
Amarillo, there was a long-standing feud between the punks and the preps. On December 12, 1997, the feud erupted into a deadly brawl.
The outcast groups in Amarillo could often be f ...
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