Whether the death penalty should be abolished in Taiwan is an ongoing debate. ... The first argument in support of the death penalty is that it helps to deter crime. ... The death penalty is an ultimate cruel, immoral and inhuman punishment. ... Many statistics has failed to prove that death penalty can deter crimes. ... Since death penalty will only do more harm than good to our society, so I firmly commit to the point that Taiwan should abolish death penalty as soon as possible....

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With this change, more youth capital offenders are subject to death penalty sentencing. ... Debate about the use of the death penalty for juveniles has grown more intense because of the demand for harsher punishment for serious and violent juvenile offenders and challenges to the death penalty's legality. ... Georgia (1972), the United States Supreme Court first defended the Constitutionality of the death penalty. ... Justice O'Connor concurred, but pointed out that Oklahoma's death penalty statute set no minimum age at which the death penalty could be imposed. ... In both case...

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The average death case resulting in death penalty costs about three million dollars in Maryland (Urban Institute 2008). ... In addition, the cost has been the biggest argument for the Pro-death penalty. ... "I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I think the reason to the death penalty is to save other people's lives". ... For the Pro-death penalty side, the justice has no price, even the cost is harmful. ...

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Reform of the death penalty began in Europe by the 1750's. ... The most common form used for the death penalty is the electric chair. ... There are many arguments for and against the death penalty. ... But does the death penalty deter? ... Anti death penalty campaigners always argue that death is not a deterrent. ...

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The death penalty conflicts with this statement because it denies the sacredness of human life. ... In this sense, the death penalty is discriminating against minorities and the poor. ... Eighteen states prohibit the death penalty for people with mental retardation. ... The death penalty is hypocritical and perpetuates the unending cycle of violence that destroys hope for a peaceful society. ... If our country truly believes that killing is wrong, the death penalty must be abolished....

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After a surge of food-related scandals surfaced in China recently, the country's highest court ordered judges across the nation to impose harsher sentences in food-related cases, including the death penalty. ... In a notice on Friday, the Supreme People's Court urged harsher penalties for both corrupt manufacturers and food inspectors. ... Interestingly, the Supreme People's Court's order to deliver harsher punishments to food safety criminals comes just after they announced another initiative to limit the use of the death penalty. Just last week they instructed lower co...

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Its work mainly consists of acting on behave of the individual, works to abolish specific practices that vary from torture to the death penalty. ... AI is also a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which is a coalition that unites national and international human rights organizations, trade unions, bar associations, and local and regional authorities in an effort to rid the world of the death penalty. AI Campaigns have proved to be very effective, such as in "The Death Penalty- Campaign which works to end executions and to abolish the death penalty globally. Over seventy-...

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., penalties were disproportionate in relation to the crime and the focus was on deterrence of crime. ... Statistics show that death penalty sentences are disproportionately imposed on racial minorities and the poor (Dambrun, 2007). ... Amnesty International also revealed, according to a 2007 study of Connecticut sentences that were examined by Yale University School of Law, African-American defendants receive the death penalty at three times the rate of white defendants in cases where the victims are white. ... Despite the fact that African Americans make up only 13 percent of the nation'...

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That is why they need to be put to death so they could never be released in hurt and kill another individual. Child molesters are like serial killers they will never stop molesting children so they should also be put to death. ... Although we all ask a question when someone rapes a child, however, does not kill that child should he/she be put to death? Alternatively, if he/she is put to death does it violate the eighth amendment if we use this type of punishment the answer would be yes. ... The government put serial killers to death to keep people safe they should also keep our children safe b...

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