On April 19, 1995, a cold-blooded killer drove up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and left his rented Ryder truck parked outside. But this was not just another rental truck; it was loaded with 4,800-pounds of a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb. This bomb was to event...

Capitol Punishment has been a very controversial and emotionally charged issue in the United State for over two hundreds years. Since we are talking about the irreplaceable act of taking a human being's life it's no doubt that this is a heated topic. In order to justify capitol punishment...

Practitioners of justice, sociologists, and philosophers have long propounded the theory that the ultimate form of justice is the absence of injustice in society. Viewed from this stand point, the main argument of Retentionists for capital punishment that it acts as an effective deterrent in the pre...

Although the death penalty is currently enforced in nearly ¾ of the 50 States, I disagree with it. Capital punishment either puts the guilty out of their misery or the innocent 6 feet under. We could easily be putting people to death who are innocent. Statistics show that during the past 25 year...

I have not made a final decision of how I feel about capital punishment because of the amount of controversy surrounding the subject; I\'m caught somewhere in the middle of being for or against it. On one hand, I support the death penalty because it\'s important to get death row inmates out of court...

Although it is an issue that I find myself torn on, if I have to support one position, I would have to say that ultimately I do not agree with capital punishment. There have been instances where I have supported the decision of the death penalty in relation to certain cases. I have learned of some h...

Capital Punishment is defined as the execution of a criminal by the state. In simpler form: legalized murder. This is an extravagant public policy that produces virtually no benefit. Violence of all kinds has become a part of our cultural routine. The death penalty only encourages vengeance as a...

Capital Punishment Can you imagine getting the death penalty at the age of 16, especially if you are innocent. These things happen in our courts and it is an embarrassment to our country. Capital punishment is, in many ways, a miscarriage of justice. It is wrong to execute people who may be inno...

A crime that is apparently so heinous that the only conceivable punishment is death. The use of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is as heinous as the crimes that put people on death row. The death penalty is believed to be one rooted in racism, and it has continued in that tradition. The po...

Capital punishment or in other words what is so called the death penalty is considered one of the most severe punishments that anyone can receive. As it is generally known executions are one of the most debatable topics around. Even today in the United States and many other nations around the worl...

Capital Punishment- A Matter of Life and Death Capital Punishment: the penalty of death for the commission of a crime When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedie...

The Morality of Capital Punishment According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2003, sixty five inmates were executed (executions). The question being, were these sixty five deaths of moral proportion? This is a question asked by many and answered with many different perspectives. My be...

Abstract There has always been a great deal of controversy over the concept of capital punishment. There are those who believe that the death penalty not only rightfully punishes the criminal but, also, deters future criminals. On the other side of the heated debate are those who feel capital p...

Capitol Punishment the Unsuccessful Deterrent The never ending debate on capital punishment has many arguments, and issues within it's self. Every one has their opinion, whether capital punishment is good or bad, another issue to be pondered and discussed is whether the ...

Introduction It has been more than 50 years since the last person in Canada was executed, but a recent public opinion poll advocates that Canadians are becoming more supportive of the return to capital punishment. The ongoing debate even suggested that murderers should be given a rope to hang thems...

In all societies, many cases occur where a criminal must be punished, so that they can be taught a lesson and they can stop committing crimes. There are many different ways of punishing criminals: one is the death penalty. The issue of the death penalty has been avidly discussed throughout history. ...

Mister Speaker, Honorable Judges, esteemed colleagues, worthy opponents and interested onlookers. I am speaking on behalf of the positive side. Be it resolved that capital punishment be deemed illegal. Capital punishment is cruel and unusual. Officials often defend this punishment as not being crue...

Why does the United States, the Super Power of the free world, find it necessary to continue executing prisoners who have committed the most heinous of crimes when the majority of the industrialized world have abolished Capital Punishment? Most industrialized nations have begun a trend to confine...

Capital Punishment The death penalty or capital punishment is a very sensitive subject. To take a stand on such a subject is a difficult job. As it stands thirty-eight of the fifty states have taken a stand that says they will enforce the death penalty. When I first started to research this top...

Ryan Leslie I would first like to address the main issue involved with capital punishment: human life. The accused possibly guilty, possibly not. The question is should we butcher all of the accused? Are we that sure of our own perfection? The issues I would, as well, like to disc...

Although Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976, the debate over capital punishment continues to surface in Canadian social institutions such as school classrooms and the media. This is not surprising, however, when you consider the fact that the US government, and a vast majority of states sou...

Interest groups dealing with Capital PunishmentInterest groups lobbying hard in Congress play an important role in determining how our society views the term 'capital punishment.' Most people come to know the term capital punishment as the death penalty. Here is a little background information on ...

Capital Punishment Punishment was developed as a form of consequence that has to be met when a law is broken, or when a crime takes place the wrongdoer must be punished. The point of punishment is to teach a lesson to those who commit these crimes and so that everyone will not continue to commit ...

Capital Punishment Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime. It is not intended to inflict any physical pain or any torture. It is only another form of punishment. Not only that, but the cost of capital punishment is highly expensive as ...

Capital Punishment The most severe sentence used in our nation is capital punishment, or execution. Most of the executions were for murder or rape. However, federal, and military laws have conferred the death penalty for other crimes, including robbery, kidnapping, treason, espionage, and de...