From the Medieval dark ages of Europe to the present day United States, there have been those in favor and those against the death penalty. ... No-where was this more apparent than in Medieval Europe. ... Since 1976, Texas has executed 163 inmates almost three times more than Virginia, the state with the second- highest number. ...
Men appear to be arrested almost five times more than women. ... This theory goes back to the medieval times, and has been supported by psychologists such as William McDougall who debates that women have a distinctive need to protect and care for the young in the community. ...
Research conducted by the RAND Corporation into alternative treatments for juveniles suggests that "investing in graduation incentives for disadvantaged youth could prevent four times as many crimes as spending the same amount on prisons" (Anonymous 2). ... Another way of gauge the morality of an issue is to look to the example set by others, and the US is currently in the company of countries that are governed according to fundamentalist, medieval standards that deny civil rights to much of their populations. ...
There are other ways to solve this problem rather than to succumb to animalistic and medieval ways of legal rectification. ... The cost of each execution is approximately $3.2 million, or about six times the cost of a life imprisonment sentence. ...
In medieval times deviant populations - such groups as the poor, impotent, aged, mentally ill, intellectually handicapped, beggars, vagrants and minor criminals - were not distinguished, but lumped together in a single ill defined entity and essentially responded to in similar ways. In these times all prisons were nominally the King's and the degree of central control, intervention and responsibility was minimal, more often non-existent even as late as the eighteenth century (Scull 1977, p17). ...
