In turn, this lack of fear will result in an abundance of horrific crimes. ... For example, all of the original thirteen colonies used the death penalty for punishment of crimes, not limited to murder, during the colonial era and even after the Constitution was written (Elliot). ... At the time the death penalty was extremely widespread and went unquestioned on the morals and ethics of the punishment. ... People who commit awful crimes deserve to die, and their execution can be used as a deterrent to other criminals to show them their future fate if they commit such a horrid crime. ... Capital...

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Capital Punishment Capital punishment is the most severe and absolute form of punishment handed down to an individual who has been convicted of a crime. ... Next, with more strict and harsh punishments it is likely that some of these crimes may be prevented if the potential criminal is aware of the consequences. For example, if a criminal was contemplating on whether to commit a certain crime, and thought about the punishments if he were to get caught, it is much more likely that if the punishment was death the criminal would highly 2 reconsider committing the crime....

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One of the forms of public humiliation in medieval times was to convict the person who committed the crime was to wear a mask or hood depending on the type of crime they committed. ... When a person comments a crime the punishment today is to lock them in jail. ... Having the mask or hood has a punishment of crime would lower costs of housing criminals. ... Torture is not the answer to stop crime. If humiliation were considered as a punishment today instead of being sent to jail, crime rates would decrease. ...

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The only way to make sure these murderers don't commit more crimes is by capital punishment. ... The ultimate penalty ,death, is necessary for the punishment of terrible crimes because it provides the most complete retribution and condemnation. ... Because of the use of the death penalty and capital punishments there was a decrease in crime and murder rates. ... Using capital punishment prevents many unnecessary deaths and crimes. ... If they were successful they would have the opportunity to commit more serious crimes, to prevent all of this from happening, we must enforce the usag...

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Capital punishment is a social institution whereby a goveronment punishes a certain crime by putting the offender to death. ... or cruel and unusual punishment'' shall not be inflicted upon a defendant. How can one argue that taking anothers life is not cruel and unusual punishment? ... These cases prove that death by any means is a " Cruel and Unusual" punishment for any crime. ... Capital punishment is a bad policy and does not benifit anyone in the long haul. ...

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Advocates of capital punishment claim that it is an effective deterrent against crime and that it is morally just. The statistics, however, point the opposite direction, indicating that capital punishment has little to no effect on the occurrence of crime and is a profoundly discriminatory and a morally conflicting practice. ... Capital punishment simply bears little effect on the occurrence of such crimes. ... The claim that deterrence of crime is an effect of the practice of capital punishment is simply statistically invalid. ... For the crime of murder, 3,343 w...

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Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. ... This along with capital punishment's usage as a deterrent for crime is what many people use as arguments for either the opening or maintenance of capital punishment in many countries including Australia. ... It is believed that fear of execution discourages people from committing crimes. ... Historically, many people have been wrongfully executed for crimes that they did not commit. ...

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Some feel it is appropriate punishment for certain crimes against society. ... People convicted of a crime that is punishable by death have later been found to be innocent. ... Capital punishment is prejudiced against men as well. ... Sorrowfully, in addition, thirteen persons who committed a crime under the age of eighteen have been executed ("Five"). Another compelling argument against capital punishment is the belief that abolishing it would help deter crime. ...

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Capital punishment is the highest form of punishment in the United States of America. ... (It is the belief of many that capital punishment is morally wrong,) - I believe that capital punishment is morally wrong- .It can be inflicted upon the innocent; It does not deter crime; there is prejudice involved and therefore it should be abolished. ... Also, it has not been proven to deter crime. ... Capital punishment is not the answer. It does not deter crime, it does not bring back the victim of a crime, and it is cruel and inhumane. ...

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The four primary justifications for criminal punishment include retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. ... Punishment must be administered to re-balance the scales of justice. ... - The latter punishment attempt to instill fear in society in general so that the rest of us will not want to commit crimes. For punishment to deter would be offenders, it must be certain (or at least likely), swift (or at least not delayed by months or years), and severe enough to outweigh the pleasures associated with crimes. ... Is this really teaching a le...

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There are too many crimes committed by youths and more severe punishments would most likely result in a major decrease in juvenile offenses. ... If punishments were made more severe, the use of illegal drugs and alcohol among the juvenile population who commit crimes would also decrease, as shown proven in a 1995 Annual Report on Drug's and Alcohol published by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Colombia University. ... For example, if the juvenile who commits a crime truly regrets doing so, he will still be sentenced to a severe punishment. ... The statistics of ...

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A psychologist by the name of Karl Menninger says that criminals should be psychologically evaluated because they are "sick not bad" and treated for their crimes instead of punished because nothing good ever comes from punishment. ... Hetter and Graeme Newman who are for the punishment of criminals and believe that the state of the legal system of today is diminishing, that if laws were stricter, the crime rate would or could very well decrease as stated by Newman. ... With punishment the legal system dares the criminal to commit another act of crime and if they commit a crime the punis...

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Juvenile crime is a rapidly growing problem in the United States. We are seeing more and more "kids" committing horrible crimes. ... Young people are committing serious crimes now more than ever. ... There needs to be a threat of serious punishment for serious crimes. ... These juveniles must pay the price for their crimes. ...

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Juvenile crime is a rapidly growing problem in the United States. We are seeing more and more "kids" committing horrible crimes. ... Young people are committing serious crimes now more than ever. ... Recent reports of juvenile crime dropping are of little comfort in light of the coming demographic surge of juveniles in their crime-prone years from dysfunctional families. ... There needs to be a threat of serious punishment for serious crimes. ...

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By 1967, capital punishment had virtually halted in the United States, pending the outcome of several court challenges. ... Punishment, on the other hand, is defined as the rough handling or penalization for a wrong doing. ... Does the Death Penalty deter crime, especially murder? ... And states that have abolished capital punishment, or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. ... The crimes ranged from any between murder and fornication. ...

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Some insist that the death penalty acts to prevent a capital crime, while others feel that it has no effect whether a capital crime is still committed. Is it right or is it wrong to take the life of someone who has committed a capital crime? ... It is said that every case is different, but if every case involved with a person committing a capital crime is considered different then how will it be just if everyone who is tried does not have the same consequence of the ultimate punishment? ... Justice requires that as many of the guilty as possible be punished, regardless of whether others have a...

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In many of these cases, the convict was proven innocent because somebody confessed to committing the crime. ... Wrongful execution is the most disturbing aspect of Capital Punishment. ... Statistics show that race, income, and geography have greatly affected the sentence of people that commit the same crime (www.2facts.com). Studies show that a black person who commits the same crime as a white person is much more likely to get the death penalty. ... The 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which is defined as penalties being issued arbitrarily, or if the punishment is as ...

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Hate crime legislation is discrimination. ... He committed a violent act, and received the right punishment - execution. ... This case received no pressure to prosecute fully or classify the crime as a hate crime. ... Meaning by percentage of population and crime rate, blacks commit far more crimes. ... Yet black crimes, as listed above receive no media attention. ...

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Capital Punishment Capital punishment is not a new concept. ... In reality, executions are seen as the appropriate punishment for certain criminals committing specific crimes. ... It has been the main recourse against those who commit the most serious crimes. ... Georgia, struck down the capital punishment statutes of 39 states. ... Bedau and Radelet already knew that plea-bargains, the juries, the evidence, the prosecutors, judicial review and/or the legal statutes had put these crimes in the "no capital punishment" category. ...

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Capital punishment wastes resources. ... It warranted the death penalty for twenty five different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the seventh century's Draconian code of Athens which made death the only punishment for all crimes and in the fifth century B.C's Roman Law of Twelve Tablets. ... The bill proposed that capital punishment be utilized only for crimes of murder and treason but was defeated by a single vote. ... Although some U.S states had begun abolishing the death penalty most states held on to their capital punishment laws. ...

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The average prison sentence for a violent crime is about one year longer for African-Americans than for Caucasians ("Racial Inequalities in" 1). Many cases in America have been concluded in which a white man gets less prison time than a black man for the same crime. ... A study has shown that 58,000 criminal cases have found disparities in the sentencing for blacks and whites arrested for the same crime ("Black Americans Given" 1). ... Blacks and whites should be treated equally when it comes to making a sentence of the same crime. ... Also, people might think that white cr...

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It is unjust that someone in one state receives the death penalty, but someone who commits an analogous crime in another state they are given a life sentence. ... These statistics are just one example of how the system of capitol punishment has proven to be unreliable. A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Through these students and the false testimony the police were able to find the bona fide killer, who confessed the entire crime on videotape.... In actuality many families denounce the use of capitol punishm...

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In today's world however, courts not only have to deal with the "Mickey mouse" crimes executed by rambunctious youths, but cold-blooded, violent crimes that may even be deserving of capital punishment in the adult court system. American society likes to use the common phrase "what is in the best interest of the child" when justifying the punishment they deploy on juvenile delinquents. ... They have all these great things going for them, and are still young enough to commit many more crimes. ... (Talbot 9) Criminals, no matter how old they are, need to be punished when they commit viol...

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A plea bargain is an agreement to plead guilty to a lesser charge with less-severe punishments. ... This gives the defendant a set punishment, which is usually to good to pass up. ... The main problem with this is that the government made strict punishment for crimes and then 90% of the time the punishments do not get enforced. ... Plea bargains leave no real uniformity giving some people a lesser punishment than others who committed the same crime. "If all criminals cases went through a court with a set sentence for the nature of a crime, there would not be so many people getting out of th...

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ... When you look back, slavery was a form of punishment in itself. ... The latter amendments ban slavery except for punishment for a crime, and they also line out the rights of citizens. ... Such as: "Germany paid reparations to Israel for the crimes of the Nazi Holocaust. ... She apologized for the crime and recognized a long-standing grievance of the Maori people. ...

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