Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor was born on March 26,1930 in El Paso, Texas. As a child, she lived on her family's 155,000 acre cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona. Her parents sent her to live with her grandmother when she was five to get a ...

The Death Penalty The death penalty is a punishment, given by a court, to be carried out for a serious crime that has been committed. Since it is the most serious kind of punishment, it is called capital punishment (Mappes and Zembaty, 108). I do not believe this is the right verdict for the foll...

Capital punishment is a very controversial issue. Many people have differing opinions about how a criminal should be disciplined, but there is no one right or correct answer. According to a USA today poll, eighty percent of Americans are currently in favor of the death penalty (USA Today). Presen...