-Socrates (Plato 577) Socrates" argument moves from one of a general moral decision to the morality of his specific case. ... Socrates chose to honor his commitment to truth and morality, even though it cost him his life. ... If he does escape, the state will lose some of that morality, and his children will be looked down upon. ... Socrates was a man who chose his commitment to truth, morality and philosophy over life. ... Socrates" conclusion to stay in the prison may have cost him his life, but saved the morality and truth of Athens. ...

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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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According to the theory of natural law, our laws are merely a reflection of this foggy, grander conceptual law which exists somewhere in the minds of all people. In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. ... The problem is that there is no great consensus on what this ideal law is, and until we reach that point, we must fall back on trusting that other people's ethics and morality are just as valid as our own, and allow them to make their own choices within the bounds of the laws the majority of society has alread...

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The government should abolish this law for the sake of people's lives. ... Others protest that if a person commits a moral wrong doing, they should be punished to balance the morality of society. ... "Morality can only be assessed in practice."" Many questions have to be answered before making a final judgment about the morality of the death penalty (Williams, 2000). ... That is why they feel the death penalty is a good law. ...

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Numerous intellectuals as well as the general public often debate the morality of capital punishment and whether or not it should be legal. ... Thousands of convicted murderers sit securely in jail sucking up the tax money of people who choose to abide by the laws. ...

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Numerous intellectuals as well as the general public often debate the morality of capital punishment and whether or not it should be legal. ... Thousands of convicted murderers sit securely in jail sucking up the tax money of people who choose to abide by the laws. ...

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In this situation they would look at the severity of the crime and basically use morality as the standard of measure. ... They will look at the act of the murder itself, the rules, or laws that were broken, and the traditional policy that is normally taken when this sort of thing happens. ...

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If he had any morality left in him, he would have calmed down, and rethought the actions and results beforehand. ... They should be the way that law states it, because they were involved in this murder somehow. ... It states in our law that to be found guilty of a crime, you must be without a doubt not guilty. ...

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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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The same is true for the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints, who say that it should be left to "the prescribed processes of civil law.... The Islamic Qur'an states: "and take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law (6:151).... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... The morality of the death penalty is not the result of executing a prisoner; it is the obligations of the person doing the execution, in accordance to the rule, which must be followed...

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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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During the 1850's abolitionists in the North questioned the morality of southern slavery by writing and preaching about the rights blacks were denied. ... The old Jim Crow laws governed all aspects of their existence, from the schoolroom to the rest room. ... The civil rights movement during the late 1800's and early 1900's provided the foundations for the current civil rights laws achieved throughout the 1960's. ... In the South, the Jim Crow laws emerged, segregating blacks...

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Amendments were made to reflect the changes in the society's views on the morality of capital punishment. ... (Ivers434) "The justices issued a short per curiam order declaring the Georgia and Texas laws unconstitutional, each justice wrote a separate opinion explaining his vote."(Ivers434) This case temporarily suspended the death penalty, showing that the laws that were established for the death penalty needed to be fixed, because they were in violation of the eighth and fourteenth amendments, therefore suspending the death penalty... Seven justices voted to uphold the Georgia, Texas, ...

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The same is true for the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints, who say that it should be left to " the prescribed processes of civil law. ... The Islamic Qur'an states: " and take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law (6:151). " Even the official policies of various religions do not always reflect the views of individual members. ... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... The morality of the death penalty is not the result of executing a prisoner; it is...

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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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