It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state sanctioned executions. ... (Michael Victory, END OF THE LINE 1994) Now the sentence of life imprisonment (in some states penal servitude for life', strict security life imprisonment', or for the term of his natural life') has become the most severe sanction authorized by Australian law. In most of the industrialized world, capital punishment is not used to punish criminals, yet debate on this topic has not abated. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the ...

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But given the resources available to the US government for restraining criminals, the carrying out of the death penalty is practically nonjustified and unnecessary. ... The government has the resources necessary to restrain criminals without resorting to the death penalty. ... With our Holy Father, we seek to build a society so committed to human life that it will not sanction the killing of any human person." ... I am against state-sanctioned killing not because of a partisan political position or religious scruple, but because it is illogical and it does not work. ...

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The only criminals who are subjected to the death penalty are capital offenders. Capital offenders are the criminals who commit murder. These criminals go to court. ... It set limits to criminals who murder in an aggravating way. ... It also does not deter criminals as suggested studies show. ...

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Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. ... When arguing for the death penalty examples are incapacitation of the criminal. ... It is obvious that dead criminals can not commit any further crimes, either within prison or after being released from it. ... These expenses are as a result of the lengthy appeal processes that are given to criminals, and also towards any court appointed attorneys. ... Further on, upon prosecution and execution of the criminal, the case remains closed, meanwhile the real criminal is ...

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However, piracy is just the practice of a pirate: these pirates conducted robbery or illegal violence at sea; violence and crimes that killed, hurt, and affected the lives of others.1 Legally, crime is broken into three different parts: mens rea, the mental state of mind the criminal had during the crime; actus reus, the acts that are criminally committed; and locus, when and where the crime happened.2 These three things made the task of classifying a pirate as a criminal an extremely difficult one because the acts committed were inconsistent and the location of the crime was even less consis...

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