The Death PenaltyThe death penalty has always been, and continues to be, a very controversial issue. While opponents of capital punishment are quick to point out that the United States remains to be one of the few Western countries that continue to support the death penalty, American citizens are m...

Position Paper Richard Derr10-10-00CN4999The Death PenaltyIn an article by Amnesty International's Campaign on the United States of America, the author states, "More than 100 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. The USA by contrast has increased its rate of executions and ...

Death Penalty for Juveniles: Is it Right? In October 1989, a month after turning seventeen, Dwayne Wright went on a violent crime spree that lead to a robbery, attempted rape, and shooting of thirty-three year old Saba Tekle. When caught the next day, Dwayne confessed to the police and was t...

Research PaperThe Death Penalty: Justice for All?The first recorded case where the death penalty was implemented as a form of punishment in the United States was in 1622 for theft (Grabowski 52). The system has come a long way since then, but does it issue justice to all? Theft is no longer consid...

Throughout the ages, the death penalty has been used as one of the severe ways to punish or deter people from breaking all range of laws from petty theft to murder; and many times as to set forth an example of a consequence when an individual betrays communal entity such as nationality and kindred...

Many people want to abandon capital punishment and focus on rehabilitating hardened criminals. What happens when a supposedly rehabilitated criminal leaves jail and kills one more person? Capital punishment is an effective and necessary part of the judicial system to punish those who have committe...

Amy York April 24, 2000 Protecting the Innocent Capital punishment should be abolished in the United States. There may have been a time when capital punishment was needed and acceptable, but that time is far behind us. The concepts and beliefs supporting capital punishment are outdated and h...

Capital Punishment Capital punishment is a legal infliction of the death penalty. Capital punishment is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment (Encarta). Capital punishment is a highly controversial and emotional way of dealing with violent criminals (Vila 25). The main alternativ...

The Death Penalty: Life, Liberty and Justice for All.Whenever the words "capital punishment" or "death penalty" arise, extremists both for and against begin to offer reasons concerning whether the punishment serves as justice for the criminal or if it is a barbaric display of the American justice sy...

The Privilege of the PoorThis country is founded centuries ago on the beliefs of a God fearing society. When our laws were first coming about was the "Eye for an eye" attitude taken into consideration? Did our founding fathers look upon the senseless acts of killing another human being as being so...

The Parchman State Penitentiary is considered to be one of the oldest detention institutions in the US. It indeed the first prison to be built in the Mississippi state back in the early 20th century. However, despite the traditional role it has played in the overall institutional system it is not, ...

In 1976, Jesse Tafero and his wife Sophia were convicted of killing a state police officer and sentenced to die In 1990, Jesse Tafero was executed in Florida. In 1981, his wife's penalty was reduced by an appeal to life imprisonment, and 11 years later a federal court released her. The evidence for ...

As a UN member, I must make choices that will be beneficial to not only one nation, but also the entire world. Many of the decisions made will impact the future of the world. The topics being discussed are Torture, AIDS, Death Penalty, and extreme poverty. These topics have been top national concern...

Official Truth or Retribution Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman presents a story that has two sides. On one hand, heinous crimes violating people's human rights have been committed and one woman in particular, Paulina, is still suffering, but looking for justice and the truth. On the ot...

Human rights violations against women have, for too long, been denied the attention and concern of international organizations, national governments, traditional human rights groups and the press. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of girls and women around the world continue to endure debilitati...

Euthanasia Introduction Over the past couple of decades, changes in medical technology have allowed physicians to prolong an individual's life than ever before. Individuals are now able to live a longer and healthier life with the help of respirators and other medical machines. We may consid...

Capital Punishment: Is it meeting its objectives?Is capital punishment meeting its objectives? Capital punishment is being applied to deter crimes that involve homicides and to punish the criminals who commit such crimes. Capital Punishment is not carrying out their intentions in a positive form. On...

In his play, Antigone, Sophocles makes a great interpretation of tragic drama. His genius created a striking conflict between two characters Antigone and Creon that is developed through out the story from the very beginning until the last pages. Both of the characters have their unbreakable ideas an...

An End to Violence against Children Worldwide Children worldwide suffer from abuse everyday. Not too many people are aware of the different kinds of abuse the children undergo-not because they don\'t care, but because it is not publicized enough for anyone to do anything about it. Hu...

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Roe v Wade case that "abortion throughout the duration of pregnancy is legally permissible" (Partial Birth 1). Even though the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is legal there are still many who feel that this type of action is unjust...

When we read reports by the western media or government agencies, such as the Human Rights Watch of the US Department of State, we note that there is a very high degree of bias against social, legal, and political, and religious practices in Arab countries. This bias is primarily due to the insista...

Torture is one of the most barbaric acts of state repression, and it constitutes a direct and deliberate attack on the core of the human personality. Like slavery, it is an expression of the almost unlimited power of one individual over another. In the case of slavery, the human being is degraded ...