Also, from 1973 to 1999 there was an average of 3 exonerations per year. In the United States, Florida, on average, has the highest amount of death row exonerations. ... Many families have to suffer because a criminal murdered their relatives and/or friends. With the death penalty, the family can receive closer knowing that the criminal can not hurt their family and friends again. ... Sadly, though, at the same time I feel that if a man came and murdered anyone in my family I would want him to be charged with the death penalty....

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The task force has a job that is exceedingly more difficult than most citizens would understand, unless they have a family member or friend on the force. ... " Westley, an average citizen states. ... The police receive so much negativity it makes their job surmount the average levels of danger and difficulty. ...

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DOJ, the average prison sentence served for the charge of murder is only 5 years and eleven months (Lowe 9). 1. ... The average sentence is 30-40 years for prisoners that receive life w/o parole. 1. ... Concluding Remarks: As for murder, many people think that the death of the murderer is the proper form of justice and a way of vengeance for the victim and their family. ...

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The average age of victims in sex crimes is thirteen years old. ... A typical sex offender abuses on average about one hundred and seventeen children, not including the ones that have not been reported. ... What about the families of the victims? ... How about the families who have lost a child to a sex offender? ...

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Department of Justice, in 1999, states that had the death penalty had murder rates on the average of 5.5 per 100,000, and the average was 3.6 per 100,000 in the states that did not have the death penalty (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). ... After trials and appeals, which take a long time and are pre-requisites to an execution, in 1988 the average cost of an electrocution was $3.2 million, and the average cost of life imprisonment was around 600,000 dollars (Radelet & Borg, 2010). ... The main goal as far as actual trials is to see that true justice is done in the form of pursuing murde...

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They had numbers, were powerful, and could intimidate any of your average day-to-day citizens. ... Many youths that join gangs come from a family that is deemed dysfunctional. ... His father had left the family when he was eight. ... In order to escape from this dysfunction, a youth may turn to the family hierarchy of a gang for family fulfillment. The family hierarchy of a gang that was previously mentioned is distinct and closely resembles that of a non-dysfunctional family, or that of a "normal" family. ...

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Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and horror to such acts. Furthermore, retentionists insist that the deterrent influence of the death penalty reaches across state lines into jurisdictions that have abolished it, and so all benefit by its continued use. Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Ac...

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And those who commit crimes should be handled with death for the sake of the victims and their families comfort. ... It solves nothing except put more hurt and pain into the families of the victims and the criminals. ... The CUADP posted a list of all the wrongly accused people who still have a chance and what readers can do to support the family's of those affected. ... In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. ... Florida spent an estimated $57 m...

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Statistics have shown that the average price in trying, convicting, and sentencing a killer with the added expense of death row for years, equals to around $3 million. ... In California the average cost for the death penalty is $3.2 million and $2.3 million in Texas. ... An alternative to the death penalty should be that the offender is required to compensate the victim's family with the offenders" own income from employment or community service while in jail. ... By working, the criminal inadvertently "pays back" society and also their victim's family. ...

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The Comparison of Sexual and Violent Offenders There are very evident differences between the average sexual offender and the average violent offender, but there are also several similarities between the two. ... Journal of Family Violence, 9, 357-369. ...

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He waited for the family living there to leave for the weekend. ... Then finally the average taxpayer could enjoy a little more of their hard earned money and save us the trouble of giving it away. ... It is also justification for the families of the victims. ... The families of the victims need something to fill the void caused by the murder. ... These families need to see that the criminal gets what he deserves. ...

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Capital Punishment: Is it right or wrong? The death penalty has not remained constant throughout American History . It has undergone numerous changes and reforms in the past two centuries, falling in and out of public favor. The death penalty has been in our legal system since our legal ...

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"More often than not, families of murder victims do not experience the relief they expected to feel at the execution, says Lula Redmond, a Florida therapist." ( Brownlee 28). ... A lifetime of service to the victim and his family may be viewed as equal justice. ... In fact, during the 1980s, states practicing the death penalty averaged an annual rate of 7.5 criminal homicides per 100,000, while abolition states averaged a rate of 7.4 per 100,000. ...

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"Ten of the 12 states without capital punishment have homicide rates below the national average," the Times said, "while half the states with the death penalty have homicide rates above the national average.... It was where my life had really begun, my friends, my family, and my entertainment. ... The family had no type of control, discipline, nor structure. ...

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The death penalty or capital punishment is a very sensitive subject. To take a stand on such a subject is a difficult job. As it stands thirty-eight of the fifty states have taken a stand that says they will enforce the death penalty. When I first started to research this topic I thought the deat...

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Under the Second Amendment to the Constitution, we have a right to protect our families and our property. ... Indeed there is fairly substantial and independent evidence that the average number of guns owned by persons owning any has increased from about three guns 15 years ago to approximately four guns today. ...

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If I"m not mistaken, it takes an average of about ten years from the time a death penalty sentence is handed out to the time the criminal is actually executed. ... One more reason I am pro-death penalty is because I think it gives closure to the families of a person who was a victim of a violent or deadly crime. ...

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A 1997 report from CNN attributes the migration of gangs to family relocation. ... Family structure is something that is pretty hard to influence. ... Their families can't help them out, and finding a good, steady job is hard for inner-city youths. ... The family is the source of love, guidance and protection. If the family is absent it is only logical that the child will need to go elsewhere to fulfill these needs. ...

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In 1959, the average prisoner waiting on death row waited approximately 2 years for their execution to take place. ... In 2012, statistics showed that on average, a prisoner destined for death waits approximately 16 years before actually receiving their execution date. ... The colony even later realized the mistake they had made and tried to compensate the families who had lost innocent loved ones. ...

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Nothing any average person can not do. ... Assuming that they are approved financial support, the family can get money out of the Crime Victims Fund. ... With the unfortunate circumstance that a homicide occurs the victim's surviving family may get the assistance. 4. ...

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After DNA testing became available it caused a spike in exonerations, from 1993 to 2012 there was an average of 23 exonerations each year. ... It does hurt everyone involved: criminals, victims' families, prosecuted innocent and hurts society as a whole. ... Capital punishment does not deter crime, does not guarantee safety for innocent victims, and does not provide closure to the victim's families. ...

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The average gang is composed of males, ages 12 to 21. ... If you try to leave then the people you called your family and friends will either beat you until your almost dead, or they will just kill you. ... The gang also provides some money for these children who quite often need to feed their families. ...

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Girls In Gangs A woman's family life and social environment can lead herself to look for the acceptance and protection of a gang. ... The ladies interviewed from Voices From The Street, two were surrounded by a family member or members with a drug habit. ... Though because of criminal arrest records and low grade point averages (GPAs) most of these women will not go as far as they may have wanted. ...

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When a person takes another person's life the victim's family is subjected to a devastating amount of pain and grief. ... In fact, 10 out of 12 states without the death penalty have crime rates below the national average (Bonner 2000). ... I watched his family walk out of the building and I realized that they were now feeling the same pain and grief I had felt for so long. ...

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The officers surveyed ranked drugs, the decline of family values, and the combination of light prison sentences and early release programs as the top three reasons for the nations upsurge in violent crime. ... Guns kept in the home are 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance than an intruder. ... On the average, one man, woman, or child is killed or wounded by a gun every two and a half minutes in the United States alone. ...

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