Introduction The American public has long been favorably disposed toward capital punishment for convicted murderers, and that support continues to grow. ... Although these poll results need to be interpreted with extreme caution, it is clear that there are few issues on which more Americans agree: in at least some circumstances, death is seen as a justifiable punishment for the worst sorts of criminal homicides. ... Money that could be better spent elsewhere is wasted on people that have been given due process and now must answer for their crimes against society. ... The re-i...

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The debate on wheather or not people with mental illnesses should receive the same treatement or punishment as normal people is one of the most heated conflicts in modern society. ... They feel any person should have the same punishment no matter what the circumstances. People also say that if people with mental illnesses are pardoned from punishment two things will happen. People with mental illness will commite more crimes beucase they know they can get away with it and people that do get in trouble for their crimes will start saying they have mental illness so they can be excused from charg...

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Paul Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance has no clear definition of a hate crime. ... Hate crimes should have a greater punishment because of the reasons for why the crime was committed. ... The intent of the person's actions is the main deciding factor behind convicting a person of a hate crime or any crime and that intent should be determined if at all possible. ... The punishment should be less maybe, but they should still be punished, therefore the ordinance does not seem unconstitutional. ... R.A.V. should have been punished for a hate crime. ...

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In my opinion a crime is a crime. Whether or not you smoke illegally or commit murder, a crime is a crime. ... One question that really seems to trigger through people mind is, is double-celling a cruel and unusual punishment? ... However at the same time, the Court pertains that prisoners do have fewer rights than free citizens simply because stripping away rights is a reasonable punishment. ...

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The Constitution of the United States says that we have certain rights and those rights include due process and no cruel and unusual punishment. ... Many of the people who hold this view point are either defense attorneys or people who are accused and/or convicted of crimes. ... All the Constitution says is that cruel and unusual punishment is not allowed. It does not define what cruel and unusual punishment is. The Supreme Court has to decide what cruel and unusual punishment defines. ...

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He went as far as created a unit within his office to handle such crimes. He, also, worked hard to crack down on hate crimes and crimes that involved weapons. His initiative literally showed when he began initiatives to help in all these areas of crime and punishment. ...

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Ideally, the insanity defense echoes a societal inclination to provide alternative sentencing by providing mental health treatment for mentally ill criminals, rather than utilizing traditional incapacitation punishment for criminals whose mental illness was the direct cause of their criminal behavior. ... Hence, the insanity defense reflects a crime sentencing policy that that identifies there are unique situations in which the need for treatment over punishment is preferable (Butler, 2011). ... At the time of the index offense the defendant was laboring under such a defect of reason, from dis...

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I guess that could be one of the consequences of committing a crime. ... Granted they are paying for their crime, but that is not helping them stay clean from drugs and alcohol when they get out. ... Most of the offenders are under the influence at the time of their crime. ... The Eighth amendment protects inmates from large amounts of bail, fines, and unusual punishments. ...

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In addition to the Eighth Amendment, the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. ... Simmons (2005) held that the Eighth Amendment bars capital punishment for children under the age of eighteen. ... Florida recognized that lack of intent normally diminishes the "moral culpability" that attaches to the crime. ... Furthermore, the second requires individualized sentencing in the capital punishment context. However, neither line is consistent with the original understanding of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause. ...

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Of the approximate one hundred demonstrators, Johnson alone was charged with a crime, the desecration of a venerated object in violation of the Texas Penal Code. ... The flag has occupied the position as the symbol of our Nation for more the two hundred years; moreover, to desecrate such a symbol without punishment would be unjust. Also dissenting, Justice Stevens questions, "Is it the power of the state or the federal government to decide the punishment on such an act?" ... The way to preserve the flag's special role would not be suited in the punishment of those who feel differently, bu...

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Each year, thousands of adolescents in the United States have been tried and sentenced to life in prison without parole, a punishment that has many of its own controversies. ... Other justices argue that if these children are capable of committing murder, they are also capable of undergoing the same punishment that an adult would undergo. However, the Supreme Court has ruled that sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole is unconstitutional because it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. ... Regardless of this type of tissue loss and brain development in general, teens...

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It said that it was a crime to say or write anything "false, scandalous and malicious" against the government, Congress, or the President." Which didn't sit well with the general population, who thought it was directly a hit against the first amendment, however, "Congress had a convenient legal basis for the laws it had enacted since that time, making certain kinds of speech a crime. And since punishment after the fact is an excellent deterrent to the exercise of free expression, the claim of "no prior restraint" itself is destroyed."...

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Roman government is exactly like ours today. The Roman government is not exactly like ours today. The Romans had emperors that did not exactly exist at the start of the empire, but then the Romans felt that one man was needed to be the leader of the empire. Julius Caesar was not just a ruler ...

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If a person truly believes they have been falsely accused of a crime they can appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. ... (Unless you are in the military) Freedom from excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishment. ...

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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 with the United states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ...

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