How ironic it is that in such a climate, our nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps pushing for the death penalty in federal cases, often overriding the recommendations of his local federal prosecutors - despite the fact that, as of this writing, jurors in 20 of the last 21 federal capital trials have refused to return death verdicts. ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. 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. Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use...

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1 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."" It is one of the most known verses in the Christian Bible. For many, it is interpreted simply as revenge. If someone deliberately takes a person's life, then that person's life should be taken to create justice. But is this reall...

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Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Act of 1994. ... New capital offenses include the murder of a federal prisoner serving a life sentence, and drive by shootings in the course of certain drug offenses" (Internet 3/8/95). ...

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ATL 130 04/12/2001 Capital Punishment: The Abolitionist View "Historically, the death penalty always has been with us in some fashion. In ancient times, it was meted out of those who propagated radical ideas that threatened the political establishment. The death penalty has existed througho...

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A great number of people would argue that there are very few things, which our American society holds dear. However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically based republic. It is this ability to choose, and the mutual respect of other people's right to choose based in their own beliefs which makes picking and finding one single, moral, and ethical law to govern any situation a difficult task. Too often people see morality and ethics as a clear c...

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