According to the theory of natural law, our laws are merely a reflection of this foggy, grander conceptual law which exists somewhere in the minds of all people. In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. ... The problem is that there is no great consensus on what this ideal law is, and until we reach that point, we must fall back on trusting that other people's ethics and morality are just as valid as our own, and allow them to make their own choices within the bounds of the laws the majority of society has alread...

• Word Count: 4097
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The government should abolish this law for the sake of people's lives. ... Others protest that if a person commits a moral wrong doing, they should be punished to balance the morality of society. ... "Morality can only be assessed in practice."" Many questions have to be answered before making a final judgment about the morality of the death penalty (Williams, 2000). ... That is why they feel the death penalty is a good law. ...

• Word Count: 2712
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Amendments were made to reflect the changes in the society's views on the morality of capital punishment. ... (Ivers434) "The justices issued a short per curiam order declaring the Georgia and Texas laws unconstitutional, each justice wrote a separate opinion explaining his vote."(Ivers434) This case temporarily suspended the death penalty, showing that the laws that were established for the death penalty needed to be fixed, because they were in violation of the eighth and fourteenth amendments, therefore suspending the death penalty... Seven justices voted to uphold the Georgia, Texas, ...

• Word Count: 2831
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Violent crime abhors most of us, and outrages our sense of morality. ... (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. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 1973.( Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and criminal justice 1993) Although Australia has abandoned capital punishment...

• Word Count: 2841
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Act of 1994. ... Without the conviction of morality, the easily frightened will not break the law, but the fearless will break the law, the irrational will break the law, and all others will break the law. ... Jana Wofford: Use of the death penalty as intended by law could actually reduce the number of violent murders by eliminating some of the repeat offenders thus being used as a system of justice, not just a method of deterrence. ... These safeguards are: 1. " Capital punishment may be imposed only for a...

• Word Count: 4694
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. Davis, Angela, et al. If They Come in the Morning Voices of Resistance. The Third Press: New Yor...

• Word Count: 3043
• Approx Pages: 12