As a pre-law major, I am always interested in writing essays that are involved in law or any legal issues. This semester, I am taking a class about the Constitutional Law and Civil Rights. ... Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. ... The British colonial government gave the colonist's a bitter memory by abusing their civil rights. ... It is very important to mention the non-government side's argument of capital punishment. ...

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Also, now many people live with constant fear of getting robed, or even killed while walking on the street, but the question here, that you might ask, is what method and actions should the government take to decrease crime? ... Also the Hittites, Athenians, and the Romans codified their laws with the death penalty to punish crimes that ranged from the "publication of libels and offensive songs to the determined murder of a man or a parent, as well as theft by a slave" (Reggio). However, today the government only punishes those that have committed crimes that range from treason to mu...

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Our modern laws are supposed to support our rights to pursuit of happiness, yet the laws that are created have guidelines for people to be welcomed here. ... Secondly, our modern laws do not support our right to life because laws are created like: abortion, and the death penalty. ... Also, modern laws fail to support what the Declaration of Independence grants its citizens, which is the state of being free within a society from restrictions imposed by authority like the government. ... People of certain races seem to have been targeted more, and the governments' justice system is failing....

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Capital punishment - also known as the death penalty - is a legal process through which a person is executed by the government in response to a committed crime. ... Death penalty advocates frequently justify capital punishment under the principle of the Law of Retaliation, commonly known as "Eye for an eye," which is the belief that punishment should fit the crime. ... In other words, while the criminal illicitly takes a life for reasons he deems fit, the government reacts similarly under the pretense of "law.... By authorizing death sentences, the government is solely corruptin...

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In the case if the government may have made a mistake, it is impossible to pardon a corpse. ... Since every state possess different laws concerning capital punishment, state borderlines became a serious criticism. ... There are now newfound laws on mental retardation because of an undeveloped mindset that is unaware of what he or she is actually committing. ... I believe that the concept is highly hypocritical, because if a criminal has taken another's life, the government taking his or hers would only be committing the same inhumane act. ... In the movie, Dead Man Walking, when the c...

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Either way in colonial Massachusetts's laws were made and enforced. ... But, it was more a case of the colony leader's own law rather than God's moral law. ... Branding was not as common a punishment, but if the crime were considered serious and threatened the peace and security if the government, it was available to the courts. ... In Massachusetts the Sabbath laws were enforced frequently. ... Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. ...

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Furthermore, government officials who are found protecting food safety violators or accepting bribes from them will also be handed harsher punishments (Jiang). Pei Xianding, Judge of Supreme People's Court said, "Under the new Criminal Law, anyone involved in food safety crimes will face at least term imprisonment. ... "Those food safety crimes leading to fatalities or any other serious aftermath should be sentenced to death in accordance with the law," the notice said (China Digital Times). ... Before this surge in cases, government had cracked down on food safety violations, backed...

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Following in this report will be the laws and regulations that have been applied to abolish this act in Australia and also some of the debates, history, effects, and opinions on this very sensitive subject. ... Now the worst punishment impoundable by Australian law is life imprisonment, with no parole. ... Some of these problems include; innocence of the perpetrator, the costs of execution for governments and the needs of rehabilitation of society. ... Money is always worried about in any government's budget. ...

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Death through drowning, crucifixion, or hanging, or throwing form a high rock, or being thrown into a fiery furnace, or firing squad, or electric chair or the gas chamber "through the years these methods as well as others not mentioned have been what the world governments have used to instill fear in the populace, in order to maintain control. ... The settlers of the United States of America were from European countries, so naturally the beliefs and methods of government that were present in Europe would be in part the foundation of the beliefs and methods of government here in America. ...

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Liebman's, discredit capital punishment as a flawless and effective system and will lead to a dramatic drop in pro-death penalty supporters, and eventually the reformation of the current capital punishment laws. ... Today, there are widespread agreements among both criminologists and law enforcement officials that capital punishment has little curbing effect on crime rates. ... Instead of trying to use the death penalty as a deterrent, the government should focus on what works in preventing crimes, educating f! ... The failures of the court system may infuriate members of society to ...

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Both the government and the general public have been divided about the moral problems that are raised from this issue. Capital punishment is defined as the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law ("Capital"), but there is a great debate about how just it is. ... Although the law guarantees everyone the right to an attorney, the quality of attorneys whom the court may appoint is often very poor. ... In 1996, President Clinton cut national government funding to twenty legal resource centers that provided aid and provided council to poor defendants. ...

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In Liberia the government is going back and forth on if this issue should be legal or illegal. ... There are multiple laws connected to the death penalty including first-degree murder and genocide. ... Proponents of the practice say the death penalty is an important tool for preserving law and order and deterring crime. ... The death penalty is a very secure method used by the government and is not going anywhere anytime soon. ... The death penalty ensures there will be no further law breaking from an individual. ...

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If a government commits murder, does it not commit a crime? Or do we merely accept that because the government is a democratically elected body, that it has legitimacy, and therefore a right to do what is otherwise illegal? ... (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sentence of life imprisonment (in some states penal servitude for life', strict security life imprisonment', or for the term of his natural life') has become the most severe sanction authorized by Australian law. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty...

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"The first person sentenced to death in the U.S was in 1608 for spying for the Spanish government.... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Wouldn't that consider government and us as a society in whole murderers as well? ... Very few countries still use capital punishment as a law and therefore countries who believe this punishment is immoral usually won...

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Furthermore, anybody has no right to deprive of other people's lives, even if governments or courts also can not authorize anyone or any organization to do this. ... It is the fact that any law is possible to have defects; any law is difficult to cover all the aspects of crimes; and anybody is possible to have mistakes. ...

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The death penalty dates as far back as the ancient laws of china, it is currently legal in thirty-two states, and there are five different legal methods used. ... By examining the ideas of deterrence, retribution, and incapacitation, we are able to see how enforcing the death penalty will be good for the government and society. ... Deterrence is the only purpose of the threats of the criminal law, therefore "legal threats of punishment would become incredible and lose their deterrent effectiveness if not carried out by actual punishment" (Capital Punishment Saves Innocent Lives). I...

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On Sunday, November 16, hundreds of people filled the University of California, Berkeley, campus to attend workshops, lectures, and discussions regarding the much disputed case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and prepared to show their support and enlist themselves for the cause of petitioning to government to grant Mumia another trial "a fairer one. ... A former member of the Black Panthers (until the group was dissolved), Mumia worked as both a newspaper and radio reporter, publicizing disruptive information about the violence that the minorities suffer at the hands of the law enforcement officers...

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The death penalty is the murder of a person annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime (Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary). ... In this century, governments have too often attempted to justify their lethal fury by the benefits such killing would bring to the rest of society. ... The first established death penalty laws date back to the eighteenth century B.C in the code of King Hammaurabi. ... The first attempted reforms of the death penalty in the United States occurred when Thomas Jefferson introduced a bill to revise Virginia's death penalty laws. ... Alt...

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The purpose of the commission was to clarify the laws of the Russian state since laws had been put into effect previously, without the knowledge of many Russian citizens. ... By telling them that there is no other form of government that would be able to do a better job than "the ruler of Russia" she is letting them know that she is their best option and giving them no hope of legislative reform. ... However, this was only necessary to force the nobles to join the military, and now that the nobility were entering the service on their own, because of their love for the father land, that this...

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The purpose of the commission was to clarify the laws of the Russian state since laws had been put into effect previously, without the knowledge of many Russian citizens. ... By telling them that there is no other form of government that would be able to do a better job than "the ruler of Russia" she is letting them know that she is their best option and giving them no hope of legislative reform. ... However, this was only necessary to force the nobles to join the military, and now that the nobility were entering the service on their own, because of their love for the father land, that this...

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Theodore Lorraine Sendak, a former Indiana Attorney General, once stated, "Our system of criminal law is to minimize human suffering by works or order primarily to forestall violence or aggression. In the question of the death penalty, we must ask ourselves which action will serve the true humanitarian purpose of criminal law. ... Although there are many complications regarding capital punishment, the states' government should not completely abolish it; the death penalty needs to stay intact in order to keep the multi-offenders and violent criminals off of the streets to protect the socie...

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People against capital punishment argue that the huge budget that it costs for taxpayers is harmful, also how is hypocritical of the government of a civilized country punishing killers by killing themselves. ... The facts have shown that there are some big cities, such as New York and Washington, who have reduced the high crime numbers by using simple methods such as technology, by putting cameras in the high-crime areas, and by hiring more police officers to be around neighborhoods so people feel safer, and criminals feel threatened that they will get caught quickly when they break the law. ....

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In Furman, Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was arbitrarily and capriciously" applied under existing law. ... By 1995, 38 States and the Federal Government had enacted statutes authorizing the death penalty for certain forms of murder. ... Our history is replete with laws and judicial recognition that minors, especially in their earlier years, generally are less mature and responsible than adults."" ... The 5-3 decision vacated the defendant's death sentence (at the age of 15, Thompson had participated in the murder of his former brother-in-law). ... These offenders face a vari...

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(Bedau) Various state governments estimate that a single death penalty case, from the point of arrest to execution, ranges from one million to three million dollars per case. ... (Bedau) So ever since the death penalty was re-instated the government has been spending millions upon millions of dollars on unnecessary murders when it could be spending the taxes on improving law enforcement and trying to lower the homicide rate. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Our laws should show a complete respect for l...

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Ancient Roman and Mosaic laws allowed the notion of retaliation; they believed in the rule of "an eye for an eye." ... In 1794, Pennsylvania adopted a law to determine the degrees of murder and only used the death penalty for premeditated first-degree murder. ... Throughout history, governments have been extremely inventive in finding ways to execute people. ...

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