Although there is no harsher crime then murdering someone, more then half the United States still uses the death penalty as a way to "serve justice.... Brennan of the US Supreme Court, agreed to this thought when he stated "Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality, and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment"(Gregg v. ... These problems have made the justice system make the process to appeal a death penalty conviction extremely long and very time consuming. ... If the death penal...

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However, some argue this is a euphemism for vengeance, but, for example, "[how] can death by lethal injection "equal" the death by raping and strangulation or the torture of mutilation" (The Death Penalty Can Ease the Suffering of Victims' Families). ... Jack Collins, whose daughter was brutally raped, beaten, tortured, and murdered, says "even if this retribution doesn't bring complete closure, it shows us that society, the jury, and the entire criminal justice system care enough about us to see to it that our daughter's killer receives his appropriate ...

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Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is the execution of a person found guilty of murder. Average citizens are now becoming more aware that capital punishment, if it is correctly used, could be a solution to many of today's most pressing criminal problems. Not only is capital punishment a d...

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Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is the execution of a person found guilty of murder. Average citizens are now becoming more aware that capital punishment, if it is correctly used, could be a solution to many of today's most pressing criminal problems. Not only is capital punishment a...

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House arrest programs could be proposed, in order to ease the criminals back into the community. ... It required long prison sentences for people convicted of three serious felonies (California's prisons). ... They believe that prison construction and long, harsh sentences are the only way to rehabilitate criminals. ... Drug-related offenders should be sent through treatment programs, rather than serving long sentences (Overcrowding, Issues and Controversies). ... Funding these programs would be much cheaper than incarceration and would help offenders ease back into the community (Overcro...

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Opponents believe not only are those untrue but that it is cruel and each human, no matter how heinous deserves the right to live. ... In the act of preserving due process of justice, the court appeals involved with the death penalty becomes long, drawn-out and very expensive. The supporters think that if you put a criminal to death then no legal services are necessary and then we do not have the expense of housing and well-being care. ... Is it really worth the hassle and money to kill a criminal, when we can put them away for life for less money and a great deal more ease? ... How...

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Robert Harris was a man with no conscious he was unaware of what he did and why. ... He showed no mercy therefore we shall show none, the reason I strongly believe this because we do it for the right reason we end the life of Harris who was a beast who did nothing but bring pain and suffering into this world and who showed no regret. 'When they execute that beast' this is a quotation how's he is described by the mother of his victim, the fact that he was described as a beast implies that Harris isn't human; he was creature with no moralities or ethics; described as a mytho...

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A number of candidly established applications have been created which quickens and eases the process of uploading, searching and downloading digital content illegally and without granted permission. ... The concept of online piracy has unfortunately existed for a long period of time. ... Unavoidably, it didn't take long for the hosts of the website to identify the copyrighted files and delete them. ... Supports also believe that online piracy and file sharing has no impact on the economy what so ever, which is terrible, as individuals have worked very hard to achieve films for example. ....

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Nevertheless, when execution day arrives, the pain is not eased. No relief can be gained, for their pain is an unavoidable, natural process of life. ... However, when a life is at stake, there is no room for error. ... There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. ... Some people are so bad that they commit crimes of such a calibre that causes people to think that they no longer deserve to live. ...

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Nevertheless, when execution day arrives, the pain is not eased. No relief can be gained, for their pain is an unavoidable, natural process of life. ... However, when a life is at stake, there is no room for error. ... There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. ... Some people are so bad that they commit crimes of such a calibre that causes some people to think that they no longer deserve to live. ...

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" No person, government-affiliated or not, has the right to decide if another human is worthy or unworthy of life. ... Humans are not cold metal coins that lose value; no act, no matter how heinous, can make a person less of a human being. ... Losing a loved one, no matter how that person is lost, is unbearable, irrevocable, and shattering. ... Nevertheless, when execution day arrives, the pain is not eased. No relief can be gained, for their pain is an unavoidable, natural process of life. ...

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I strongly believe that when someone takes away the rights of an innocent victim they no longer have rights and they should not be of concern for society. ... Although we have come a long way, it is not a perfect world and there are still murderers roaming around looking for their next victim. ... Thanks to the advancement of technology, DNA testing has helped ease this burden. ... There is no way to replace the years behind bars. ... There is no "perfect world....

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

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The annihilation of alien peoples as a means of conquest and supremacy-long the leitmotif of history-is increasingly an aberration, albeit one that still haunts our conscience with disturbing frequency. ... Although the scope of ICC action may, to that extent, be constrained, there is no dearth of actual or prospective atrocities of a sufficient scale or gravity among signatory states to warrant international prosecutions. ... The ICC prosecutor has already indicated his decision to "closely follow" the situation in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which involves an esti...

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The waiting period should be as long as it takes to conduct an extensive search of the prospective gun owner's background, including mental health records, but should be no less than five days. ... A waiting period would dramatically lower the instances of crimes of passion because the seeker of a handgun would no longer be able to purchase one instantaneously. ... "Accidents are directly attributable to three factors: gun availability or density(the number of guns in a locality), the accessibility of guns(the ease or difficulty in operating a gun), and conduct(how guns are actually ha...

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It is not a good way to live and many kids just give up their lives to crime because they think that there is no way out of the life they are living. ... Recently, in the aftermath of the Columbine High School Massacre, the House of Representatives passed a "Juvenile Crime Bill" to limit the ease in which juvenile can get their hands on guns (Lazare 57). ... Former Attorney General William P Barr has some very good ideas as far as the long-term solutions for juvenile crime. "The long-term solution to the problem of juvenile crime falls largely outside of the law enforcement syst...

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If someone wants to use drugs, they should be allowed to, as long if they don't harm anyone else. ... It eases pain and someone could be addicted to it. ... If drugs were legalized, no one would be selling drugs on the black market and creating violence. ... There would be no such thing as a drug-dealer. ...

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By the end of the 1990s, all states had enacted laws to make their juvenile justice systems more punitive or to ease transfer of more juveniles to the criminal justice system and adult prisons. ... Criminologists have long assumed that arrests contribute to desistance during and after the juvenile years (Blumstein, Cohen, Roth et al., 1986). ...

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The death penalty makes no sense. ... If we did sink to the level of the criminal, it shows that we have no morals. ... Furthermore, the death penalty does not help ease the pain of the victim's family. ...

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It makes people wonder what some factors are that can increase or decrease a criminal in getting a longer or shorter sentence. ... A judge incentive to accept a plea bargain is to ease the need to schedule and hold a trial on an overcrowded docket. ...

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