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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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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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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This is in stark contrast to the idea that there must be some sort of natural law which governs all human beings. 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...

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The Law says that humans have inalienable rights that existed outside of and before government. ... It is evident, then that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder," (Bastiat 24-26). ... After all, if the law is set up to protect our right to live, it seems as though it should be able to keep convicted murderers from murdering again. ... Of course, there is a possibility of wrongly sending an innocent man to prison, or wrongly fining an...

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Do you remember your childhood? Growing up was exciting and fun. We had the terrible two's, starting school, going through puberty, etc. Life was a test and we learned from our mistakes. "Keep your hands off the stove! ...

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