Introduction This morning more than 20,000 Australians will wake up in a prison cell. What will their day bring? In Australia a person over the age of 18 who offends or who is apprehended for allegedly doing so, is dealt with in the adult criminal justice system. Once convicted the prisoner c...

Interest groups dealing with Capital Punishment Interest 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...

Capital Punishment Against Is trying to teach criminals the lesson that killing is wrong by, in turn, killing them right? Capital punishment has now been abolished in most countries and should not be introduced into Australia. The probability of wrongfully executing a person and later finding th...

I still remember the day clearly. It wasn't what he had done that changed my mind at first. It wasn't even the verdict. It was the moment of his actual death.. seeing & hearing about it on television.. that made me firmly re-think my own beliefs on the subject and endorse the death penalt...