Opposing the Death Penalty The death penalty has been a controversial issue in American society for the last twenty years, starting back in 1976 during the Furman v. ... It was argued against because two of the men were sentenced to death for rape, even though other people had been given much less severe punishments for murder (Bender 35)! ... To date, no one has ever been sentenced the death penalty, executed, then discovered to be innocent (Draper 35). ... In many of these cases, the convict was proven innocent because somebody confessed to committing the crime. ... Low income people ar...

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By the mid-1900's most states started using either gas chamber or electrocution (Smith). ... That is not only because of the police force but also because serious criminals are having second thoughts about these terrible crimes because they know that they will be executed. ... On the contrary, the opposition might say that in colonial times almost half of those sentenced to death were pardoned but it was too late since the sentence had already been carried out (Posner). ... This argument is invalid because in more recent times there is DNA evidence to convict a killer with almost perfect ...

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Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? For obvious reasons some people feel that a fourteen year old convicted on two counts of second degree murder should not be in the same prison with a forty four year old murderer, which is understandable because they probably would not survive in that environment. ... That is a shame, imagine that you were the parent of one of the victims, would you be satisfied with that sentence? ... Recently gangs have started recruiting kids as young as eleven and twelve to be part of their narcotics dealing. ... These juveniles are committing adult violent crimes an...

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A poorly represented defendant is much more likely convicted and sentenced to the death penalty not necessarily because he was guilty but rather because of insufficient funds. ... In Maryland, a comparison of capitol trial costs with and without the death penalty over a five-year span concluded that a capitol trial costs approximately forty - two percent more than a case resulting in a non-death sentence. ... The death penalty imposes an irreversible sentence. ... There is considerable evidence that many mistakes have been made in sentencing people to death. ... Society today works hard to pre...

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Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? ... degree murder should not be in the same prison with a forty four year old murderer, which is understandable because they probably would not survive in that environment. On the other hand, would you be satisfied with the same fourteen year old murderer getting out of a juvenile detention center when he is eighteen? ... That is a shame, imagine that you were the parent of one of the victims, would you be satisfied with that sentence? ... Recently gangs have started recruiting kids as young as eleven and twelve to be part of their narcotics dealing. ...

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The average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners is two to six years and women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to fifteen years, despite the fact that they did it in self defense (Talvi inthesetimes.com). ... With that responsibility men were given power. ... Women really had no place to go they always had to just deal with the abuse. ... (Domestic violence Statics.com) Battered women who were once threatened by their abuser with a weapon will wind up killing the abuser with the same exact weapon as well (Browne 140). ... Once they do the abusers find t...

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So what could possibly be wrong with classifying a crime with hate, for a larger sentence? ... And don't even get me started on the case of the black street punk who got punched by the cop. ... His attackers were charged with hate crimes and made out to be savage homophobes. ... His attackers should be executed, but not because Shappard was gay, but rather because they committed murder. ... I am pro death penalty, and while I do think these hate crime committers should be executed or prosecuted fully, why should the other regular murders deserve lighter sentences? ...

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As readers and writers, we all start out with a certain affinity to various styles of reading and writing depending on what is presented to us at an early age. ... My very first experiences with writing began with three words: "the new kid". ... Everyday after school, I broke out my favorite box of crayons and went to town scribbling and practicing writing letters, words and simple sentences that I learned in class. ... Also, there's something about posting to random strangers online that makes it a bit simpler for me to gain confidence because of my social anxiety. ... I fou...

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Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. ... With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. ... The new deal had again failed with the creat...

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"Asked to describe the situation in Little Rock that night, the editor of the Arkansas Gazette stated, "I'll give it to you in one sentence. ... Abbie Hoffman's involvement in the media started at an early age. ... He first started listening to the radio as a young kid and loved it. ... Seriously, this was a horrible thing to tell people because it was not true. ... The media with its powers also can sway the audience that is watching it very easily because can show just one side of the story....

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In return, the Native Americans were "sentenced" to the American wasteland, better known as Oklahoma. ... This is when everything started to change. ... In 1675, King Philip and his tribe waged a war against the English because of English encroachment onto their land. ... Even the Iroquois were not English allies because of their unwillingness to fight. (Brinkley, p. 100) In the years that followed, the American Revolution started. ...

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Puritan settlers were often punished because of their religious beliefs. In Europe a man was sentenced to jail for life and hurt badly because he would not follow the rules of the Church of England. ... Another conflict that America has dealt with is the labor system. ... Because of the want to come to America many of these servants would sell themselves to a master, by doing this the servants families were usually split apart. ... In the year 1831 "Nat Turner actually started a rebellion in which a number of white people were killed". ...

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Germany on the other hand has kept stride with the advancements while keeping true to their heritage. ... Children have very close relationships with their parents. ... My nephew once told me a story about a German foreign exchange student he was very good friends with. ... Starting at the age of six every child must enroll in school where they will attend full time up to 10 years. ... We get to vote this person into office with a majority vote. ...

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There were many different events that led up to the start of the American Revolution; some believe that class and economic conflicts were the major cause of the war. ... The British merchants were not pleased with the colonists" behavior and they retaliated with what is known now as the Boston massacre. ... Although many colonists did not like the way the English Parliament was treating them, they still considered themselves English and were in a way somewhat shocked when the war actually started. ... This sentence put extra emphasis on Franklin's main point. ... This did not bode well...

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Police brutality has taken a turn for the worse, as seen with the killings of innocent, unarmed men, such as Mike Brown, Oscar Grant, and Dillon Taylor, all of which their murders were cops who were acquitted of their crimes. ... This basically states that the Officer fired a shot at and killed an unarmed, black teenager simply because he was startled. ... Video footage shows that Taylor was backing away from the police, with his hands in his waistband, facing the cop. ... On April 4, 2007, Ryan Gallagher (a writer for Medill Reports) headlined, saying, "From 2002-2004, over 10,000 com...

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The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. ... Competition for labor with white workers would eventually lead up to the 1871 Chinese Massacre. ... From the first moment Asian immigrants stepped onto the land they were viewed with disdain in California. ... On the other hand, others wanted to start a new life in the new land, but most immigration decisions involved family. As the Chinese took over most of the jobs, complaints about the ...

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Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a handgun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. ... However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... In addition criminals using guns have seen gun control as necessary because of the violence. ... But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving...

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