First of all, the punishment of the death penalty is needed to deter crime. ... The death penalty is an extreme punishment that creates fear in the mind of any sane person. Research shows that the death penalty deters every kind of murder that has been studied. After conducted research, "all categories of murder are deterred by the death penalty, even so-called crimes of passion. ... Secondly, the death penalty should be used for retribution. ...

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Now lets talk about the penalties of drinking and driving. ... These penalties are the same for the following offences. ... The maximum penalties for impaired driving causing death is up to 14 years and a 10 year prohabition from driving. The maximum penalty for manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death is up to life in prison and up to a lifetime prohabition from driving. I think that these penalties for all the drinking and driving offences are very appropriate, but I think impaired driving causing death should be a lifetime imprisonment. ...

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At the sentencing hearing counsel argued the respondent's acceptance of his actions justified sparing him the death penalty. In the judge's decision he found more aggravating circumstances than minagating circumstances and sentenced Washington to death on three separate counts of murder. ... For a convicted defendant to receive a reversal of a death penalty sentence they must show counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as guaranteed in the sixth amendment. ...

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Anthony Sowell, the sex offender who was convicted of murdering 11 women, faces the death penalty unless his defense team can successfully convince the jury that Sowell was provoked by post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. ...

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Types of punishment included revenge, social ridicule, ostracism, insulting, spearing (aimed at the leg, but sometimes resulted in death) and death by sorcery. ... There are numerous penalties regarding criminal offences in Australia, ranging from fines and charges, to community service and prison. ...

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Fifty percent of all highway deaths are alcohol related. 1. ... Driving while intoxicated penalties include $500-1000 fines, a possibility of up to one year in prison, and license suspension for 6 months. ... If injury or death results from a collision in which the driver has been drinking, the driver can be prosecuted for serious offenses, such as vehicular homicide. 4. ...

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Fine paid to the government: or, 3). execution of the defendant by the death penalty, in an exceptional case. ... The victim's family can file a civil lawsuit requesting monetary damages under the premise of wrongful death. ... The families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman filed a wrongful death civil suit against O. ...

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With deterrence and punishment among the goals for the "three strikes and you are out" law, it was also to ensure the toughest sentences excluding the death penalty, was given to habitual offenders to promote public safety. ...

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The organization dealt with conventions against torture i.e. the death penalty, prison violence (inmates v. inmates, guards v. inmates), inhumane conditions at social institutions like schools, prisons, etc.   ...

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