"This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" How true an assessment is this of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? Malcolm said this when he was made King after both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had died. ... At first we see Macbeth afraid at the thought of murdering Duncan, as he considers it he resolves he cannot as Duncan trusts him "First, as I am his kinsman, and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host." ... But Lady Macbeth manipulatively influences his decisions by belittling his manhood as she knows this provokes him "when you durst do it then you were a man" M...

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People must realize that these people need to die for their horrible crimes! ... How would you feel if you were to be wrongly accused for a murder and put on death row? ... Be that as it may, your still going to die. ... The fact is that they are going to die no matter what. ... How is this helping our society? ...

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How has life in jail become known as ten to fifteen years? ... In contrast to this argument though, we have Cynthia Gomez from the Inter-American University who states: "No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ... As it is like this, how can we hold the responsibility of murdering someone just because of humans" natural characteristic of making mistakes?" And she makes a good point: Who are we to say who gets to live and who gets to die? ... No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ...

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People are suppose to live and die, we can't make someone live if there no life. We can stop someone from dying when there alive. ... It is how the death was caused that you should be so worried about. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... People have to die sooner or later. ...

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She will die for it unless he speaks up. ... How I have lived I hardly know But revenge kept me alive; I dared now die, and leave my adversary in being." Victor thinks of how his friends and family are dead and how he lives, and their murderer lives. ... Men and women of America, cheer athletes when their team is down by twenty points, but when a two-year old is dying of a head on collision, we would be just as happy to pull the plug. That is where we are wrong. ...

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Now, it's based on how much money people have. ... J. to die by execution."... If they don't want to be there how are they going to want to put up a good fight. ... Unknowingly, we as a whole pay for the killing of others, through the money we pay for taxes. ... So ponder on this question; How many innocent people have your tax dollars paid to be killed? ...

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He left 20 men to die while in Africa. ... Rogers, the servant, is found to have died in her sleep. ... John Macarther feels sure that he will die next, and goes out to look at the ocean. ... We also learn that Issac Morris, who bought the island and made the arrangements for the visitors, is Wargraves tenth victim. ... He then goes on to describe how he found out about the people, and how he lured them to the island and how he killed each of them except for Vera and Lombard who take care of themselves. ...

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The judge and jury sentence the man to die in the electric chair. ... How can this innocent man be put to death in a system based on fairness, and a theory of innocent until proven guilty. ... We do not commit murder, not because of the existence of the death penalty, but because we are morally developed, life respecting citizens. ... In May of 1992, Roger Keith Coleman died in Virginia's electric chair for a murder he claimed he didn't commit. ... A women identified a different murderer but died a mysterious death the day after giving a television interview. ...

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An execution is one too many because, no matter how it's carried out, the death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... Could it be that as long as the state is killing, we are sending a message that killing is a way to solve problems? ... People have to die sooner or later. It is just like saying that we should put all people that smoke in jail because that is attempt of murder to them. ...

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Thousands will die. ... We control the lives of these criminals and we should not waste them. ... Whether a man should die now or die later should not be the focus of the capital punishment debate. ... Every time we execute someone, we sink to the same level as the common killer. ... Every time we execute someone, we are desensitizing the value of human life. ...

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Many Jews still die from the death penalty and many still administer a needle for putting a criminal to death. ... Many people believe that no matter how sure you are that someone committed a crime, there is always a chance that they didn't. ... How very compassionate of the American government to give him a choice. ... By allowing the government and the legal system to decide who lives and dies is giving them a power not meant for man. ... We should not! ...

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If there is a general deterrent effect and we do execute, then we are saving innocent lives. ... The gas chamber is where the prisoner is placed in a room with sodium cyanide crystals and left to die. ... Christ's statement that those who kill by the sword are subject to die by the sword (Matthew 26:51-52)." ... It could be argued that a criminal is not able to learn a lesson since he dies as an immediate result of the punishment. How can this be called punishment if no lesson is taught? ...

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Just as long as there's a major overhauling in the way that we treat criminals convicted of capital crimes. ... Since I obviously wasn't moral enough to see how wrong capital punishment was I was also a dope. ... "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? ... In short, we should maintain order by enforcing a death penalty for severe prison violence. ... The people who would die as a result of this would be ...

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It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...

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It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...

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Many of the things we do in our daily life to others we would not like done to us. ... But just like a fashion, the reaction from the criminals will eventually die down. ... Yet if people know they"ll die for crimes such as murder, they will not want to do them. ... What would happen to terrorists if capital punishment was reintroduced, they are willing to die for their cause, so they would become martyrs if executed. ... We all agree that we live in a civilised society, then how can we even consider using something as uncivilised such as death as a penalty. ...

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Some people deserve to die, but does anyone have the right to kill? ... How is the sentence carried out? ... We all knew he came from a screwed up family, but nothing on the surface ever said just how bad it was. ... So what could we do with the millions of dollars we would spend on capital punishment? ... So why do people still say yes to the death penalty when they see how it is crippling societies? ...

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"On April 19, 1995, 168 people, including many young children in the day care center, died in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK.... The sentences might be anywhere from ten to twenty years in prison, but some crimes force the defendant to die for their crime or crimes. ... "No matter how careful courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony, mistaken honest testimony, and human error remain all too real. We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain there were some." ...

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The short sentences represent how much little thought has gone towards her daughter's death and how she almost feels rewarded by the sympathy and kindness that is received. ... In her book, On Death and Dying (1969), Elizabeth Kübler-Ross suggests the 5 stages of grief as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. ... We also witness this when Amma is interrogated by Camille at the end of the novel. Camille comes to the conclusion that 'Ann and Natalie died because Adora paid attention to them', proving that Amma was jealous of the attention that other girls were gi...

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But, who deserves to die, whether it is by accident, murder, or capital punishment. ... There have been approximately two dozen people who have been executed who did not commit the crime they were being accused of, that we know of. ... The American society knows too much about people they don't know and not enough on how to save their tax money. ... One is to learn from ones mistakes, so how can the person learn if they are paying for their mistakes with their life? ... Does a prisoner have the right to die quickly rather than wait for years while the appeals process drags on? ...

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He stated that he could have died because there was no ample air supply, nor was there any food for him to survive on. ... This is how our justice system works. ... There are bound to be mistakes, we are only human. But for the very few who died in a just manner, many more innocent people's lives will be saved. That is the goal in which we shall seek. ...

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We need protection. But we don't need to kill the evil doer in order to provide that protection. ... How about explaining that to the innocent peoples" families, explain to the families that it was alright for their beloved to be wrongly executed. ... Terrorists and assassins already run the risk of dying for their cause. ... The death penalty is the easy way out for criminals because they aren't really learning their lesson, how can they when they are dead? ...

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How can we entrust the power to put a person to death in the hands of these people who are not capable of making decisions in which a person's life very much depends on it? ... How many more cases of wrongful conviction have to occur before we can all agree that the system is broken? There are many more alternatives that we can see and take to count before we throw someone into the gallows or gas chamber. ... The poor old lady said she could not even afford proper grave markers for her grandchildren who died. ... But how serious are they in preventing crime? ...

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The physical mechanics involved in the act of execution are easy to grasp, but the emotions involved in carrying out the death penalty on another person, regardless of how much they deserve it, are beyond my own understanding. ... It seems easy to understand that as Americans we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with equal opportunities. ... , that we must choose life without parole, at a cost of $1 million for 50 years. ... Nailing hands and feet to a cross in the shape of a T and leaving the person to die performed crucifixion, a form most people are familiar wi...

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No person, state, or goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is hypocritical for any society to claim that killing is the most intolerable crime, and then carry out state killings." - www. ... The key argument in support of the death penalty has always been that no offender wants to die, therefore the threat of execution will prevent homicide in society. ... How can one argue that taking anothers life is not cruel and unusual punishment? ... What we must ask our selves is does this man deserve to be put to death, and d...

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