Capital Punishment: Pro
.... 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, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island abandoned the practice altogethe .....
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Legalizing Marijuana Legislation
.... use in treatment in the United States. He added that it was "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." This request was overruled not by medical authority, but by the DEA itself. This shows the little amount of government knowledge on the subject matter. Presently, the main chemical in marijuana which is THC is being used or in some states being proposed for medical purposes. Marinol, which is another chemical in marijuana, is used to counteract nausea, which accompanies most patients going through the chemotherapy process. It is also used for patients who suffer from glaucoma. Patients with glaucoma .....
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Capital Punishment: Right Or Wrong?
.... policy for murderers. Since this policy went into effect, the murder rate has been cut in half. This is because the killer knows he himself will be killed if he committs the crime. Also, no one has been put to death in New York State since 1976. This proves that the death penalty can help prevent murders, and kill the murderers. It also proves that just because a state has the death penalty, people don’t get executed every other day. Another reason killers should be dealt with by the death penalty is money. It costs $20,000 a year for a murderer to live in jail. If a murderer stayed in jail for 40 years, it would cost .....
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Prohibition
.... physicians and ministers, became concerned about the extent of alcohol use. They believed that drinking alcohol damaged people’s health and moral behavior, and promoted poverty. People concerned about alcohol use urged temperance- that is, the reduction or elimination of the use of alcoholic beverages. At first, supporters of temperance urged drinkers to drink only moderate amounts. But the supporters later became convinced that alcoholic beverages were addictive. In the 1820’s and 1830’s, the first temperance crusade reduced the average annual intake of pure alcohol per person to about 3 gallons.() Support for prohibit .....
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Asian Organized Crime
.... strong belief that woman are weak in that they were not born to fight. To a Yakuza member, the most substantial trait is courage, in that these members must be willing to die for their boss, and women, it is believed, do not possess this trait. Additionally, another reason that women are excluded from these groups is that there is a strong code of silence. There is a notion that many Japanese women are not able to withhold information that they learn and that if such information leaked out, it may spell the demise of the particular group. The origin of the term Yakuza comes from a Japanese card game, similar to blackjack, call .....
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The Death Of A Criminal
.... (Academic American Encyclopedia "Capital Punishment").
Yet, in 1976, the Supreme Court in Gregg V. Georgia declared the death penalty for murder is constitutional (AAE "Capital Punishment"). The death penalty is also fair and serves it justice -- surveyed police chiefs and sheriffs choose the death penalty as a primary method to combat violent crime (Montgomery 2-25-95). It cost less in the long run as well.
How does the economy benefit from the death penalty? First of all, the American economy has enough problems as it is. The government is trying to cut spending left and right. State and Federal prisons are overcrowded. W .....
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Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
.... lessen crime. They point out that the legalization of drugs would deter future criminal acts. They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse?
However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible to people who previously had not tried drugs, because of the high price or the legal risk. .....
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Religion And Capital Punishment
.... from the Holy Bible. It suggests to the reader that God did not make death and He doesn’t delight in the death of a human being, regardless of the cause. The Holy Bible is one of the best places to find information about death and how to treat capital punishment. In setting out the ten commandments, one of its best known passages, in the Bible it is stated that: "Thou shalt not kill." (Dt. 5:17). This is not a conditional statement. Rather, it is direct, to the point, and does not incorporate any modifiers. God does not say, thou shalt not kill…unless the person you are killing has killed someone else. In this context, one .....
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Legalizing Marijuana
.... in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions against the use of marijuana for " legitiment medical use." City council women Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana.; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. '' Many agencies which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments argue that marijuana shouldn't be legalized. These agencies believe that marijuana shouldn't be legalized .....
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Gun Control In The U.S.
.... of gun control is that it stops the ordinary citizen from purchasing a gun on the whim, but it actually protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim (who can't get a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago) is simply a victim of a law that supports black market trade. There are over 200 million registered guns in circulation (Larson), and they are the ones that will not b .....
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Rockefeller Drug Laws
.... you can have the chance to appeal and get out on good behavior. Seriously what can be the good of keeping these laws?
The worst thing about the Rockefeller drug laws is that they just don’t work. The enactment of these laws has not stopped the use or the sale of drugs, an new method for dealing with drug crimes is needed. This may mean more education, or more rehab facilities, or even still sending the criminals to jail, but for a more reasonable amount of time, or at least for an amount of time that corresponds to what their crime was. If their is no faith in the system then the system will have little or no chance of w .....
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Cannabis
.... it. "The 1937 U.S. dispensatory said:"Cannabis is used in medicine to relieve pain, encourage sleep, and to soothe restlessness. We have very little definite knowledge of the effects of therapeutic quantities, but in some persons it appears to produce a euphoria and will often relieve migrainic headaches. One of the great hindrances to the wider use of this drug is the great variability and the potency of different samples of Cannabis which renders it impossible to approximate the proper dose of any individual smaple except by clinical trial. Because of occasional unpleasant symptoms from unusually potent preparations, p .....
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