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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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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In the 13th century, England replaced mutilation with hanging, as there method of execution. ... So capital punishment in America started with the belief, that to maintain control there must be some kind of justice system set up to where the Nation as well as the individual State has the power to punish the most serious of criminals without regard or hesitation. ... Some equate the American death penalty with the Nazi holocaust. ... There is also the argument over the cost of death row prisoners compare prisoners who have been given a sentence of life without parole. ... Not only were they at ...

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The risks do not stop people from proceeding with their actions. ... Of the 3,054 prisoners sentenced to death in 1995, only 56 have thus far been executed (Notis 121). The arbitrariness of the sentencing process when dealing with the death penalty and juvenile offenders from state to state, combined with the extensive appeals process, renders the capital punishment laws incapable of deterring crime. ... He lived with his aunt, his grandmother, and friends of the family until he eventually moved back home to live with his mother and stepfather at the age of 14. He started developing an in...

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Rideau also argues that prisoners tend to stay the same with their criminal lifestyle, because being behind bars is their life or a large portion of it. ... All of the people who commit these moderately serious crimes could all have could a chance to change their ways in life and start moving on a different path with rehabilitation. ... Even though the prison system has flaws with dealing people who have committed mid-level crimes, it has even bigger insufficiencies with dealing with people who have molested or taken the lives away from others. ... People who have committed these types of rel...

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This complex yet important sentence is the definition of a tragedy, according to Aristotle. ... Because of Macbeth's violent, volatile nature, it is very difficult for one to like him. ... /Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me."" ... He did not, however, because he also wanted Duncan killed. ... Macbeth is therefore not a tragedy because Macbeth is a violent, self-centered character who makes it difficult for himself to be loved by others because of his personal qualities. ...

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