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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... are rarely sentenced to death and executed (27). The poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsels, are most likely to be executed. For example, Orenthial James Simpson had the money to afford the best lawyers and was “guilty as sin,” but he was acquitted. According to Alison Coope, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death. Also, when the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white man was executed for raping a nonwhite woman; whereas, most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed (24).
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Common Sense Control, Not Gun Control
Number of Words: 1272 / Number of Pages: 5
... the door in, sending
splinters of wood flying about the room. The time has come, you raise from the
side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire just as the
intruder is raising his weapon. He flies back against the wall and slumps into
a lifeless pile. You then proceed to call 911.
Now, that is not an uncommon scenario in the present state of society.
Now what I ask you to picture is that same scenario, but this time only the
intruder has a weapon because all guns have been outlawed and the criminal is
the only person who can get their hands on them. It's a rather scary tho ...
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Capital Punishment: For And Against
Number of Words: 2560 / Number of Pages: 10
... the nature of a moral community. The essential basis on
which community is built requires each citizen to honor the rightful claims of
others. The utter and deliberate denial of life and opportunity to others
forfeits ones own claim to continued membership in the community, whose
standards have been so flagrantly violated. The preservation of moral community
demands that the shattering of the foundation of its existence must be taken
with utmost seriousness. The preciousness of life in a moral community must be
so highly honored that those who do not honor the life of others make null and
void their o ...
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Gun Control And Why People Think It Is Unfair
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the ...
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Howard Roark's Testimony At The Cortlandt Trial
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... as the unique design of the building. In other words, he did not realize that allowing Keating to propose the project to be a threat to his individualistic ideals.
Roark’s unnoticed failure greatly changes the logic of his testimony. He explains how the great scientists and thinkers were condemned for their new ideas. He is obviously paralleling this to the Cortlandt project. It is incredibly true that as the ideas endured criticism and condemnation, they were eventually seen as good and very useful. This is a perfect argument for all his buildings in general, but not for the Cortlandt pr ...
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Illegal Drugs
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... at home
in the office and on the road. Everybody pays the price of drug abuse: more cops
and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost.
But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are
supporting violent crimes in the drug world.
Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are
already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime often
means that drug users go on to commit crimes like robbery,burglary,assult, and
murder.
Drug addiction means that the brain is saying I need drugs now it must
have drugs. This offten mean ...
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Hate Crimes And Punishment
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... out of hate or prejudice, the fact still remains that he or she has been killed. With hate crime laws, the hate is being looked at, more so than the crime itself. Even though hate is a terrible thing to have in your heart, all Americans have the right to hate whatever or who ever they want (Hudson 1). Besides, if officials start punishing hate or unholy thoughts, they might as well make a new category of crime— thought crime. If this line of thinking were acted upon, then half of America would be behind bars.
As stated above, the idea of punishing crimes differently based on the victim might make some ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... murders by juviniles has tripled since 1980
while the number of teen murders by all other means has stayed the same."
C. Black Market is a great sorce of gun trading
Munsey, 96' (Christopher, March 31)
"Firearms stolen from residents and gun stores are the number one outlet for for
criminals. 'They are traded on the street in the brisk black-market whirl that
includes drugs & cash.' state police said.
D. Guns kill more teens than all diseases conbined.
Neergaad, 96'(AP, July 13)
"Guns kill more teen-agers than all other diseases combined. Gun related
homicides & suicides are rising. Firearm ...
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Don't Talk To Cops
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... material, etc., but
also tends to prolong the conversation. The longer the conversation, the
more chance there is for a skill investigator to find out what he wants to
know.
Many times a police officer will ask you to accompany him to the
police station to answer a few questions. In that case, simply thank him
for the invitation and indicate that you are not disposed to accept it at
this time. Often the authorities simply want to photograph a person for
identification purposes, a procedure which is easily accomplished by
placing him in a private room with a two-way mirror at the station, aski ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 2083 / Number of Pages: 8
... reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies.
Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen century, opposition to the death penalty gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions on the use of the death penalty in several northern states, while in the United States, Michigan, Wisconsi ...
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