A Working Alternative To Capital Punishment
.... the NAACP. During 1977 and 1994, Texas executed the highest number of prisoners, a total of 85. As of 1996 there were 3,122 inmates on death row. These convicts could help with government labor with a hope that they might be free someday. Figures show that, with men, 80% decide in favor of the death penalty, and women the vote was 74%.. White populations vote 81% for capital punishment and blacks only 53% (Doan, 2). This information means that the general public will resolve to end the lives of these killers. By offering an alternative, these figures may alter themselves significantly.
Those opposing the death penalty would obtai .....
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Capital Punishment Is Murder
.... are no two ways to look at it. When one human loses their life due entirely to another human, what would it be called beyond murder? Capital Punishment does just that.
These people that are on death row in the United States are criminals. There is no disputing that fact. They have been tried an convicted. It is not what they have done that is up for discussion so much as how they are to be punished. The way that these criminals are executed is morally incorrect. There is actually a choice on how the convicted criminal is to be put to death. He, or even she, can chose anything from hanging, to being shot or electrocu .....
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Capital Punishment And Issues
.... commonly authorized for a wide variety of crimes. Blacks, whether slave or free, were threatened with death for many crimes that were punished less severely when committed by whites.
The Reform Movement
Efforts to abolish the death penalty did not gather momentum until the end of the 18th century; in England and America this reform was led by the Quakers (Society of Friends). In Europe, a short treatise, On Crimes and Punishments (1764), by the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, inspired influential thinkers such as the French philosopher Voltaire to oppose torture, flogging, and the death penalty. Encouraged by the writings of .....
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"Legalization Of Marijuana"
.... groups like "N.O.R.M.A.L." were still around. Although the people weren’t so strong-willed to legalize it they still fought. New and harder drugs were now popular and marijuana wasn’t as "popular." In the early 1990’s the drug was once again popular after the side effects of the new drugs were seen. The drug’s popularity still increases today. Only there is more violence surrounding it in drug deals and gang wars. Although there would need to be regulations on it and new laws made. The legalization of marijuana would not only benefit the government but also the people.
Although the government and people would benefit, it w .....
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Hate Crimes And Punishment
.... 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 people or groups feel as if others are more protected or valued than they are. This whole concept is hypocritical. If all Ame .....
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Capital Punishment
.... that it is up to the inmate to pay for his or her own lawyer. Now, after exhausting state appeals, most prisoners are allowed only one appeal in the federal courts (Regoli and Hewitt 544). I think if the inmate wants to appeal his or her case they should have to pay for it from the beginning. Society has to pay enough money as it is for inmates. Capital punishment is less costly than maintaining a criminal in prison for his or her entire life.
Next, society has a right to protect itself from criminals. If it is obvious that a person is guilty of murder, then that person should be sentenced to death. Justice must be served. Placin .....
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No Speed Limit In Virginia
.... limit, which is set at 55 miles per hour around the area, causes many problems and traffic. The traffic in the Washington, DC metropolitan area is one of the worst in the United States. Especially on highway 66 where there is always a lot of traffic because people are worried about going the right speed due to all the highway patrol on the road. So, taking this into consideration, by lifting the state speed limit all together, the majority of drivers will still drive at 55 or 65 (depending on location) miles per hour. However, no speed limit would allow those drivers in a hurry to take advantage of this privilege. But, tough .....
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Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
.... weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help so many suffering victims of these ailments, then why keep it out of use? Marijuana ranked ninth in order of preference for the treatment of mild to moderate nausea and vomiting, and sixth for treatment of more severe symptoms induced by chemotherapy (8, p.1). Forty-four percent of oncologists have recommended cannabis sativa, marijuana, to at least one patient (4, p.2).
Of the respondents who had prescribed marijuana thought that it .....
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Marijuana: Controversial Smoke
.... AIDS patients. The cloud of suspicion would disappear, and doctors could get on with investigating marijuana's medical uses without fear of controversy.
If you think about it marijuana is just like all of those cigarettes behind the counter. Legalizing it will create problems, but we can control those problems. We would treat it as a prescription drug, not like cigarettes. Let get the hospitals making money not the drug lords. Legalizing it passed as a proposition, but the Federal government still treats it as an illegal drug. I do not think that the federal government sees the benefits. We got to push it because if nothin .....
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The Death Penalty For Justice And Safety
.... He once slashed a cab driver’s throat and left him for dead. Yet he was out on mandatory parole. Twenty-five years’ worth of victims, but Virginia set him free. Murray now faces life without parole.
Jonathan was denied his life because a killer was turned loose rather than executed. If Murray had faced justice after his first slaughter, Jonathan would still be a boy with another day inside him, another jest, and another chance at making his mother proud. All he is now is a tragic memory. No system of justice in recorded history has ever equated the life of a murdered innocent child with that of a homicidal, depraved predato .....
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Capital Punishment
.... that it is up to the inmate to pay for his or her own lawyer. Now, after exhausting state appeals, most prisoners are allowed only one appeal in the federal courts (Regoli and Hewitt 544). I think if the inmate wants to appeal his or her case they should have to pay for it from the beginning. Society has to pay enough money as it is for inmates. Capital punishment is less costly than maintaining a criminal in prison for his or her entire life.
Next, society has a right to protect itself from criminals. If it is obvious that a person is guilty of murder, then that person should be sentenced to death. Justice must be served. Placin .....
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Howard Roark's Testimony At The Cortlandt Trial
.... 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 project. The reason is that the Cortlandt project was no longer his own. This is true both legally as well as individualistic st .....
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