Capital punishment, to many people, seem cruel and unusual, but its purpose is to punish those who committed such horrendous crimes as murder and to make people who would otherwise commit these violent acts think twice before they go out and commit crimes such as murder. ... (Cavanagh4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that " people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes ...

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Since the turn of the century, 343 people have been wrongly convicted. ... These figures raise the question: how many innocent people are on death row right now? ... "In an execution in this country the test ought not to be reasonable doubt; the test ought to be is there any doubt." ... Lastly, most of the people charged in capital cases cannot afford defense attorneys. ... Later a DNA test would exonerate Williams and the other men. ...

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Key tools of drug courts are frequent monitoring, education, alcohol and drug testing, and rehabilitation programs (Casey 2005), which participants frequently appear before the drug court judge, and meetings with court-affiliated case managers regarding progress. ...

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The United States is known for the safety and security over its people. ... People had more understanding of what punishment should be like. ... "For example, the HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement) program, started by a former federal prosecutor in Hawaii, conducts frequent drug tests backed-up by swift and certain sanctions for violations, usually a few days in jail" (ROC). ... "Prisons do little to help people make amends for what they have done and change lives" (THLPR). ... Many people out there are trying to help those in need of guidance. ...

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(http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk) However some people saw this as being 'soft' on offenders and in 1979 Margaret Thatcher attacked the 'permissive society' and the 1960s liberal values. ... There are more people being sent to prison than any other Western and Southern European country, current statistics show that for every 100,000 people, 151 of them are jailed. ...

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