There has to be a set of moral and ethical standards that even our all knowing government can not supercede, otherwise how can any nation or let alone any state expect its citizens not to follow in its foot steps. ... There are also other people that quote the Sixth Commandment which reads, "Thou Shall Not Commit Murder." ... In 1987, there was a study conducted by Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet that appeared in the Standford Law Review that was concerning the execution of innocent people. The study concluded that in a period of eighty years from 1900 to 1980, that about "350 people were w...

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Quality of education can be severely impeded by widespread fear among students, teachers and the general school community; if people are afraid to go to school, including school staff, there can be very negative impacts on the school environment (Mulhern, 1994). ... As a federal mandate, schools reliant on federal funding had to adopt this strict, no-nonsense policy and thus Zero-Tolerance Policies became a reality in 94% of school across America (Cerrone, 1999). ... By 1997, 3.1 million students were suspended annually as a result of zero tolerance policies; and in 1998, 87,000 students wer...

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