His law states, "an eye for an eye and a life for a life" (Ellis and Esler 40). ... Capital punishment questions the morality of humans. ... Under common law the killing of another human being is justifiable only in self-defense. ... By the laws of America, the person responsible for killing the accused is committing murder, be it the state or another person. ... The people in power by the state write out their existence as a citizen and believe they are superior to all citizens and do not fall under the laws that all the citizens of America live by. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thousands will die. They are victims of senseless murder, but should the murderous felons die as well? Capital Punishment is a major controversy. Debating whether they receive execution or spend the rest of their ruined lives rotting in a jail cell seems pointless. The government throws away these h...

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Robertson a young lawyer who knew all about the law, but nothing about justice was a stagehand in the defence. ... Obscenity before the law required much more than something shocking and disgusting it required some seductive invitation to depravity. ... Robertson never at any stage questions the guilt of his clients, what he does questions is the morality and social efficacy of the death penalty. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, can killing a murderer be justified as an act of morality? ... More states began to reduce the number of capital crimes and made laws more flexible. ... So many people were appalled by the execution that it led to the 1911 repeal of Minnesota's death laws. Some people in the states where capital punishment no longer existed took the law into their own hands and killed criminals with guns and beatings. ... New York later reinstated the death penalty law with death by lethal injection. ...

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Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Act of 1994. ... Without the conviction of morality, the easily frightened will not break the law, but the fearless will break the law, the irrational will break the law, and all others will break the law. ... Jana Wofford: Use of the death penalty as intended by law could actually reduce the number of violent murders by eliminating some of the repeat offenders thus being used as a system of justice, not just a method of deterrence. ... These safeguards are: 1. " Capital punishment may be imposed only for a...

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• Grade Level: High School

English Law recognized seven major crimes by the end of the 15th century: treason, murder, larceny, burglary, rape and arson. ... In the Philippines, a law was passed in 1993 re-imposing the death penalty after its abolition. ...

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