There is no evidence to say that capital punishment is more effective than life imprisonment. ... Then why take another life for a life that a person took. ... There is no representation of what crimes capital punishment would include. ... A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three of these people were executed. We have to allow room for mistakes as no one or no system is perfect. ...

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"No! ... They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... About two-thirds of the alcohol-involved crimes were characterized as simple assaults."" ... Arrests for DUI peaked in 1983 when there were 1.9 million arrests. ... If it were legalized, situations would become out of control; crime and death rates from car crashes and suicide would skyrocket. ...

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If it is going to stop a crazy man from killing again then so be it Were not supposed to kill others. ... No matter where you are there is going to be murder and crime. ... As a remedy for crime, it has no purpose and no effect. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930; nearly half were people of color. ... I think that in no way it would ever be ok for anyone to die unless it is just there time to go. ...

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People are suppose to live and die, we can't make someone live if there no life. ... No matter where you are there is going to be death. ... There is no real way to replace one life with the death on another. ... More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930, nearly half were people of color. ... I think that in no way it would ever be ok for anyone to die unless it is just there time to go. ...

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There are many things that could happen to children out on the streets. ... Also, if her parents were not able to pick her up, then there must have not been someone home to meet her. Since Carlie's parents were not being responsible, Smith was able to take advantage of their poor little girl. ... There are many ways that this horrible incident could have been prevented. ... If everyone works together, in no time at all, the crimes against children could decrease dramatically. ...

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Wilkerson acknowledges in depth how they were both from homes where they were born to mothers who first gave birth at the age of fourteen and who were not financially stable to take care of their children without the assistance of welfare (326). ... If there is no opportunity in your neighborhoods then how can people support themselves or their families? ... They no longer could borrow after awhile because there was nowhere to borrow from, leaving them to beg and steal. Once begging damaged their ego and no one had anything to spare, the only thing left to do was steal. ... Imagine being ...

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Capital punishment is wrong and unjust and there is no place for it in a modern humane society. ... Capital punishment is barbaric no matter how it is administered. ... Throughout the history of the death penalty, there have been numerous cases where people have been executed and then later found to be innocent. ... However, new evidence about crimes is often found years later, and if the person has already been put to death there is no way of bringing that person back to life. ... If he were to be locked up in prison for life he would have paid his price by living a hard life in jail with ...

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I think if there not violent then they should get more than three strikes. ... If they were behind bars then there is a chance of less crimes being committed and people being hurt someway. ... There is no reason anyone should be able to commit a crime, any type of crime no matter the circumstances. ... No more chances. ... If there not smart enough not to commit that many crimes then they shouldn't be in society with normal people....

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As William Hearst said it "There is no deterrent in the menace of the gallows. ... Many people in jail would like to die rather then sit. ... Put them to hard work, you can make use out of them, if you kill them, they are no use. In the past there have been many ways of execution. ... There have been many more cases then I have stated. ...

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There were obviously the crucifixions, but there was also stoning, beheading, hanging, shootings from a firing squad, the electric chair, gas chambers, and now they have lethal injections. ... Aren't they just doing there job though? No, if we let that slide, then we would have to let the murder slide too because they could have been doing a job for somebody else such as a mob boss or gangster of some sort. ... I mean if there is no threat of death to one who commits murder, then that person is guaranteed to be provided with a descent living environment un...

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There is no standard definition of a gang.' ... (URL: Howell) Recent studies have shown that the average gang member stays in the group less then a year. ... It is estimated that by the year 2000 there will be 250,000 gang members in Los Angeles alone. ... In other words, gang members represented one-third of the juveniles interviewed for the studies yet were responsible for more then one-third of the delinquent acts. ... (Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential) There are numerous opinions as the causes of juvenile violence. ...

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However, things have changed since then. ... There is no way of knowing how many other innocent lives have been lost due to capital punishment. ... To counter one of the points made by the pro argument, there is no proof that the death penalty actually deters crime. ... Capital punishment is a final sentence; there is no way to repent afterwards. ... There is no way to possibly calculate the number of innocent lives that have been sacrificed at the hands of unfair judgment. ...

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Who Needs the Death Penalty Anyway There is no way any person could tell me that the death penalty is a form of justice. ... I also feel as humans we have no right to take a human life. ... There are also those out there who believe that the death penalty is a deterrent. ... If that is true then we all are contributing to the death of a human being, that's a scary thought. ... Gutierrez 3 While doing all this death penalty research I often wondered if there were really innocent people on death row? ...

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If these are some of the things that you're into, then this is your kind of movie. ... Tarantinos' characters chop off ears then talk into them as if they were using ma bell. ... They could give a shit if you were the cousin of the president or a nanny. ... No holes barred, no questions asked, no thought given to actions or consequences. ... There is a certain comfort level in belonging to something, anything. ...

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There may be dangers to drug use, but there are also dangers in using alcohol and tobacco. ... As far as overdosing, there is no scientifically valid evidence of anyone dying of an overdose of marijuana smoke (Marshall 82). ... All of these could be avoided if drugs were legalized, and the black market would vanish not too long after. ... unity, then it is not a problem for society. ... If the results from legalizing marijuana were positive, then perhaps other drugs can be sold later. ...

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Within East Side High, there was a teacher named Joe Clark. ... The students were then shown walking through the halls dealing drugs, fighting and completely out of control. ... They simply refused to do school work and there was a major lack of discipline because the teachers had no control over the students. ... He then decided to bring back Joe Clark because they new that Joe possessed the qualities that were needed to get the job done. ... He then put locked chains on all of the doors to keep them out. ...

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As of this moment there are many juveniles being sentenced to detention facilities as harsh punishments. ... The juvenile justice system was first set in place to provide rehabilitation for the juveniles seeing that there were more issues other than them just being a bad apple. Juvenile courts were designed to be flexible, informal, and they were also focusing on the rehabilitation of the delinquents. ... People wonder why the juveniles come out of these detention centers worst off then when they went in, and that is because there was no rehabilitation. The justice system is incarcerating the ...

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There were several religions that stepped up to oppose the death penalty, most notable the Roman Catholic Church. ... These were just some of the opposing viewpoints. ... Carmical does not make a real strong case but what Carmical states is that there is no proof an innocent man has ever died. ... He then dies from cardiac and respiratory arrest. ... There maybe a few changes necessary to the death penalty but no person has the right to take the life of another and deserves to sit in an air-conditioned prison, watching television, eating his dinner. ...

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If drugs were made legal then it would cause a threat to the good of society. ... If drugs were made legal, then a large amount of under age consumers would be able to easily get their hands on them. ... This is more understandable and possible then legalizing the use of all drugs. But then you have to ask the question: if we legalize marijuana where does it stop? ... When it comes to legalizing illicit drugs there can be no medium. ...

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It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later found to be innocent. ... A cover story in the "Time"3 presents a report about a man called Doug McCray, then 32. ... A study made in the U.S., of death row inmates has found that 62 percent were unskilled workers, 60 percent were unemployed and a majority of these people were represented by lawyers with less than five years experience. ... It can be seen that there is no logical reason for reintroducing capital punishment. The fact that there is ...

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IN the United States alone there have been 4047 executions since 1930 and 188 were from 1977-1996. In 1996, there were a total of 15,168,100 arrests; 33,050 for forcible rape; 1,506,200 involving drug violations and 19,020 for murder and non-negligent manslaughter [Don Death Penalty San Diego: "Lucent Books Inc."]. ... The number of people on the death row in t967 were in 1972: 200 and in 1997 3,100. ... The only way to deter crime is to prevent it from happening, rather then enforcing harsh punishment to "scare" off potential crimes. Studies show that there is no relation between crime rate...

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The truth is there are no hard facts to confirm those allegations. ... There have been many horrible occurrences in schools recently. ... These crimes were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were going to wear to school. ... These rights are taken advantage by just about everyone, but that is no reason to take them away from children. ... If students can't express themselves through fashion then they will find another way, which may not be as harmless....

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There are many people who believe in the theory of an eye for an eye (les talinois). ... The police were bullying him. ... The police feel he has no respect for their authority however; the irony is they themselves have no respect for their authority. ... The police were able to amass several false statements in a relatively short period of time. ... He then became the saboteur. ...

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In 1990, 15% of fatal road accidents were alcohol related and 32% of all pedestrians killed in road accidents were over the legal blood-alcohol level for driving. ... There are no cases of death by Cannabis use. If made legal consumption of alcohol would no doubt go down, and with it, alcohol related crime. ... There is overwhelming evidence that medical use is beneficial. ... No one can predict the effect that on increase in availability (and promotion) cannabis would have on these figures. ...

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These laws were influenced by a 1972 U.S. ... The court had banned the death penalty as it was then imposed. ... Most were abolished in the 1800's. ... Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate.'' ... In earlier times, there would have been no possible way for the court to see that they were innocent, leading to their likely execution. ...

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