Police brutality is a problem in our country today. There are many instances where the police have gone too far in dealing with criminals. There are many things that people are doing to stop police brutality. More and more bad cops are being caught in their wrong doings. There are many ca...

AN ANALYSIS OF HECTOR BABENCO'S FILM, PIXOTE This film takes place in Brazil during the early eighties. At first appearance, Brazil seems to be a modern day paradise. Large and exotic beaches line the city where tourists flock all year round. Even the people, at first glance appear to b...

Children and the Death Penalty Today it is very difficult to turn on the TV or pick- up a newspaper without hearing about someone being killed or someone on trial for killing. With the increasing number of people committing crimes it is not surprising to read that an increasing number have been com...

Capital Punishment While capital punishment has been one of the most feared things in our time, it is still being questioned if it's unconstitutional. The death penalty is being enforced in more than 100 countries. And throughout the history, the death penalty is usually a result of ...

Virtually every major program designed to address the underlying causes of violence and to support the poor, vulnerable, powerless victims of crime is being cut even further to the bone... In this context, the proposition that the death penalty is a needed addition to our arsenal of weapons lacks cr...

The fallibility of man and of his decisions is an inevitability for which society has had to make allowances. Due to this mundane imperfection, humanity, by necessity, has acquired tolerance for the accidental and imprudent. Thankfully, these indiscretions and lapses of good judgment are typically m...

Conflict in the Outsider – A Man in Revolt The major source of conflict in the text, The Outsider written by Albert Camus, is ultimately Meursault's rebellion against the expectations of society. This conflict, caused be rebellion, controls the plot line of the text from the time of ...

In the waning hours of September 21, 1998, it appeared that there was no hope for Anthony Porter. It seemed that all the legal avenues for a reprieve on his death sentence had been exhausted. Granted, his legal counsels throughout his attempts at a new trial or a new ruling on his present case wer...

Death PenaltyThe death penalty is a major issue that brings up a lot of arguments in our society. The most important question concerning the death penalty is whether it should beabolished or not. I think that the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. Itviolates the right to lif...

The topic I chose for my research paper is Capital punishment. I chose this topic because I think Capital punishment should be banned in all states. The death penalty violates religious beliefs about killing, remains unfair to minorities and is therefore unconstitutional, and is inhumane and barba...

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with an intentional or criminal intent. In today's world, terrible crimes are being committed daily. Many believe that these criminals deserve one fate: death. Capital punishment, the death penalty, is the maximum sentence used in punishing peopl...

Against Capital Punishment"At 8:00 p.m. it was nearing the end of John Evans' last day on death row. He had spent most of the day with his minister and family, praying and talking of what was to come. At 8:20 he was walked from his cell down to the long hall to the execution room and strapped in the...