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    The Death Penalty History

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    the Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment that any criminal can receive. According to Michael H. Riggio teacher of law in Oklahoma states that during the seventh Century in Athens the death penalty was mandatory for every crime. These crimes varied, some crimes consisted of making fun of the country song, chopping of crops that were planted by another farmer, or disturbing a urban place during night hours. Stealings punishment would also be death but only if the criminal…

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    Most people would agree that laws are something that were created to help people. Most of the help is figuring out who is right, how to handle something, or rules to follow (Behl, 2016). Hardly anyone would argue that this is a bad thing, until the law itself breaks the rules. Many laws can, in fact, contradict themselves. An example of this is the juvenile justice system and being able to wave the juvenile to adult court. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) and parens…

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    reasoning and explanation, provide more cognitive benefits to the child than corporal punishment. The cognitive benefits are the ability of children to learn and their motivation to learn. The definition given of cognition by Merriam-Webster is that cognition involves conscious mental activities which include thinking, learning, understanding and remembering. Straus (2001) claims that if parents use physical punishment instead of inductive discipline, the child 's cognitive skills might suffer.…

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    or capital punishment, is the ending of the lives of those thought to be guilty of a crime, mostly murder. The methods used include: lethal injections, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and hanging. Only thirty-two states practice the death penalty. Ernest van den Haag, author of “The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense,” argues for the use of the death penalty. On the other hand, Jack Greenberg, gives reasons opposing the death penalty in his work “Against the American System of Capital…

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    It does seem biased toward the opposition of the death penalty in some places, but he explains both the pros and cons throughout the article. Similar to other sources, it explains the negatives of the cost of the death penalty and clearly achieves its goal of persuading the reader. By using cold hard facts and statistics, this article reinforced my beliefs of…

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    penalty to gain an advantage in the verdict which means that each member of the jury must express an objection or no objection to the death penalty and they would be willing to sentence someone to death (Schmalleger p.32). Some of the pros and cons of capital punishment are: the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison but one could argue that the safety risks of guards and inmates are high with keeping a violent criminal behind bars for life. The death penalty does not deter crime.…

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    retribution or "an eye for an eye" honors the victim, helps console grieving families, and ensures that the perpetrators of heinous crimes never have an opportunity to cause future tragedy”(ProCon.org, 2016).Taking each point as it applies to the pros and cons enables the person to understand the debate. Seeking understanding of these opposing points of view allows the person to evaluate his own view point while offering insight into the evidence of both sides of the issue. Those that cite…

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    emerged in response to the cruel forms of punishment that dominated the times in which the approach was towards punishment and crime . Bentham was an English philosopher who as a believer of utilitarianism felt that people had the right to happiness and thus on the basis of this he believed that punishment should be in proportionate to the crime committed. According to him, people are rational creatures who will seek pleasure in order to avoid pain thus the punishment given to such people should…

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    criminal is entitled to a rightly and just punishment. A person who has multiple unpaid speeding tickets or has done simple shoplifting is not equivalent to a criminal with multiple convictions of murder and should not be recommended the death penalty. There are criminals who kill for the sake of survival, but there are ones who do it for gratification and satisfaction. I do not advise…

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    it’s safer to be feared than loved” (Machiavelli 679). Now in modern day, fear is still there but in the form of laws. The fear of punishment for defying laws is what keeps citizens in line and from committing crimes. The fear of breaking these laws is what keeps our society from descending into anarchy, in fact, “. . . but fear is maintained by a dread of punishment which never fails” (Machiavelli 680). Although when citizens do stray from the Law’s guidelines and commit crimes, they have to…

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