Anyway of executing someone is unjust. According to Amnesty International's website against the death penalty the latest information shows that: 55 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, 15 countries have abolished the death penalty for all but exceptional crimes such as the wartime crimes, 27 countries can be considered abolitionists because they maintain the death penalty in law but have not carried out any executions for the past 10 years. A total of 97 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. ...

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What jurisdiction does the law have over life? ... Not only is it an expensive method, it does not deter crime and it is unjust and bias. ... Most believe that the method is completely useless and unjust. ...

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Presently, laws enforced upon society create controversy over if the rulings made are the morally correct decisions. ... While utilitarianism would view the consequence of killing the criminal as unjust because it makes the criminal suffer, I think a utilitarian would still think the death penalty is moral because the benefit it creates is greater than its consequences. ... In order to decide if the death penalty is just or unjust; utilitarianism has to question whether the death penalty is effective in preventing future crimes compared to life imprisonment. ...

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The debate between just and unjust is forever arguable because our society is so diverse. ... Our laws can and must take every responsible step to prevent others from enduring the heartache by families of the victim. ... The Eighth Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" and the Fourteenth Amendment requires "the equal protection of the laws" for all inhabitants. The Fifth Amendment states that "no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without the due process of law." ... When the life of an individual is unjustly taken by another individual, the horror of the commu...

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We may not like the death penalty, but it must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, cases in which any other form of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust. ... Koch argues, justice requires that the law be applied equally to all. ...

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But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its cruel and unjust way of punishment. ... If someone is executed, our court system is deliberately defying our Lord's laws. ... But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its cruel and unjust way of punishment. ... If someone is executed, our court system is deliberately defying our Lord's laws. ...

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This law was passed on March 7, 1994. ... Arguments opposing the law will be given first. ... A third strike is a third strike under the law. This is highly unjust. ... The "three strikes" law does not deter crime. ...

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This strongly supports his belief that even though the constitution states we have the "right to bear arms", other laws may be added alter or enhance it. ... If the government did not compensate for the fact that times change, no law would serve its purpose correctly. As new inventions or concepts are revealed, laws must be altered so that they do not become unjust. ...

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The death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape [or] treason. ( Zimring, 1994, P.1 )But who is really being unjust in this situation? ... Even though almost everything and everybody speaks against capital punishment, people still believe, those who commit violent crimes should be punished to the fullest extend of law, which capital punishment basically is. ... (C) The Catholic religion believes that it unjust to solve a crime of violence with violence. ... support the death penalty laws. ...

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The code, adopted in the late fifth and early sixth centuries, is a reflection of the Burgundians strict attachment to God, separation of social groups, and unjust treatment of women. ... Almost each set of laws differs for what social group or sex the Burgundian is. ... To illustrate the importance placed on women, of the nine law titles (i.e. ... The Burgundian laws in this excerpt do, however, touch on the values that are evident throughout history. ... Without a set of laws, society has trouble finding legitimacy. ...

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A bill to restore the death penalty almost passed as law in 1987; however Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had opposed the bill and it has not been brought back up since. ... The need for capital punishment is vital in our society, it is in the best interest of the majority of the population and it supports positive law. ... This will make it more likely for people to follow the law, if they know that they too might be sentenced to death. ... "There is no sin in administering punishment for those individuals who refuse to obey God's law" (Thomas Aquinas), any action necessary to ...

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In the first soliloquy, Hamlet talks about how aggravated at life he is and that if it weren't for God's laws he would commit suicide. ... If he does he will himself be making a morally unjust decision that would weigh down his own conscience. ...

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They should be the way that law states it, because they were involved in this murder somehow. ... It states in our law that to be found guilty of a crime, you must be without a doubt not guilty. The few questions I have asked you are examples of these doubts within a case, and therefore it should be unjust to use such a punishment in this country. ...

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Capitol punishment Capital Punishment The Argument Against the Death Penalty The feeling of the condemned man was indescribable, as he was minutes away from being executed by an unjust decision. ... While there was physical evidence linking to the rape and murder of his sister-in-law, the case was built with weakness that caused many to question his guilt. ... His lawyer was only two years out of law school when his case was tried. ... The law leaves it up to the judges and juries to determine whether the defendants committing the crime should die or be imprisoned. ... It was claimed that ...

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Justice O"Connor proceeds to say that she was "reluctant to adopt this conclusion as a matter of constitutional law without better evidence than we now possess" (Ewing 153). ... When it came time for the sentencing, the judge "acknowledged that the boy's youth was a substantial mitigating factor but refused, as a matter of law, to consider Monty's disturbed family life and emotional problems as substantial evidence" (Ewing 152). ... Five out of the nine Supreme Court Justices concluded that the "sentencing authority may not "refuse to consider, as a matter of law, any relevant mitiga...

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According to Jewish law, a court punished both religious and non-religious crimes. ... He was unjustly convicted of murder. ... These three men would have been dead and buried years ago if capital punishment were still the law in this country. ... According to this point, we should execute all criminals or offenders of the law and have no prisons! ...

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Sister Helen Prejean argues the death penalty is morally wrong, based on the inequalities of the law. ... How law abiding would I be?." ... It wasn't until Prejean became involved in the plea for Patrick Sonniers life that she began to fully see the social divide within the law. ... Thomas, a New Orleans housing project for poor black residents, she was center to it all, she describes it "like living in another country:" The fear of violence, drugs and guns, law breakers and murder were not new to Prejean what became chilling were the racial inequalities within the law. ... While ple...

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But we can't resort to the revenge of "an eye for an eye", because that only would make the punishment as unjust, as immoral and as barbaric as the original crime itself. ... This quote is from Issues In Society: Law and Order. ...

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Abortion Right or Wrong? Today in America there are about 4,000 abortions performed per day. Did you ever ask yourself if abortion is right or wrong? I hope that after reading this essay you will understand that abortions are totally wrong. We think that it is wrong to kill people in ...

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Abortion Right or Wrong? Today in America there are about 4,000 abortions performed per day. Did you ever ask yourself if abortion is right or wrong? I hope that after reading this essay you will understand that abortions are totally wrong. We think that it is wrong to kill people in ...

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I believe there is too much room for error in this law and it is too serious. ... All of the topics and theories I have covered in this essay, (race, utilitarian theory, retributivism theory and error) portray the negative attributes that contribute to an unjust and unfair system. ...

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America's view on their justice system is very unclear, "we must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. ... The use of the death penalty dates all the way back 1700 B.C. when Iraq implemented The Code of Hammurabi, which was a legal document that contained the first known death penalty laws. ... The solution to avoid unjust death penalties is the jury. ...

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This means passing HR3214 into law and putting resources and technology in place to unmistakably determine the guilt of those on death row. ... We believe the death penalty should be used if it is the only possible way of defending human lives against the unjust aggressor. ... How ironic it is that in such a climate, our nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps pushing for the death penalty in federal cases, often overriding the recommendations of his local federal prosecutors - despite the fact that, as of this writing, jurors in 20 of the last 2...

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It is unjust that someone in one state receives the death penalty, but someone who commits an analogous crime in another state they are given a life sentence. ... (Bedau) So ever since the death penalty was re-instated the government has been spending millions upon millions of dollars on unnecessary murders when it could be spending the taxes on improving law enforcement and trying to lower the homicide rate. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Our laws should show a complete respect for life no matter if...

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Opponents of capital punishment who argue that this crime is improper or constitutional because it is disproportionately used against people of color and the poor mistake an argument against unjust applications of capital punishment for an argument against its use altogether. ... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Why does the government deem murder against the law when, as a solution, they are executing those who commit murder, themselves? ... Very few countries still use capital punishment as a ...

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