The other side says that it goes against the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the constitution. ... It is also based on the notion that capital punishment is inhumane. ... I believed this because I figured the less knowledge one had on the subject of capital punishment, the more inclined they would be to have one pay for their crime with their life. ... Daniel Frank was put to death in the Colony of Virginia for the crime of theft. ... As Whites advance in their level of education, they find out that the death penalty has been credited as an effective deterrent to serious crimes such a...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
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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. ...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction As quoted by Emile Durkheim, a society without crime is impossible.1 Even if the standard of determining criminal acts is set high, less severe acts will still be considered as crime. As there is no chance of eliminating crime out of society, punishment is an essential tool to create a fair society for it having 4 main goals: deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation and incapacitation. Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among ...

• Word Count: 2471
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blaming the Victim The black inner city community is faced with an alarming number of violent crimes, poverty and is beginning to self-destruct. ... Black on black crime is all you see on the news and the newspaper. ... So we need to quit seeing punishment as the answer. ...

• Word Count: 1355
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• Grade Level: High School

-Pg.125 She denies him the security of punishment following sin. ... However, this is the sort of punishment Joe wants. ... Indeed, Joe is forced to withdraw from the two extremes of his blood and exist apart from race, and only when he sins or commits a crime is he defined as absolutely one race. ...

• Word Count: 1750
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• Grade Level: High School

Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She insists that the law must bring severe punishment to the lynchers, but that it couldn't be done without public demands to take action such as this. ... She feels as though these spectators are just as guilty as the men committing the crime. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person, or race because of color, culture or beliefs. ... Even though all the Japanese people were accused of being traitors not one Japanese American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities, none was ever charged with any kind of crime, except being ethnic Japanese. ...

• Word Count: 2342
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• Grade Level: High School

s 1948 Convention on Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, "a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."...

• Word Count: 2237
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• Grade Level: High School