A Hanging

On September 10th, Earl Ringer Jr. was executed in Missouri. In July of 1998, Ringer and his accomplice robbed a restaurant where two people were killed. Ringer was charged with two first degree murders and sentenced to death. His actions were indeed heinous but his punishment was discussable. The death penalty or capital punishment is a sentence that is looked appalled on and agreed with. Capital punishment is seen by not only many people but also states immorally just and a waste. The…

Although Elizabethan-Era torture and executions aren’t talked about much in school it was a part of history that should be taught. Through out the centuries there have been many changes in torture and executions. Neither are used much today since laws have changed so much. In this paper I will explain a few of the torture and execution techniques used back then, how torture and execution changed throughout the time period, and the reasonings behind torture and executions. One type of execution…

punishment. Capital punishment is a state-authorized killing of an individual who committed a capital crime. Dating back to 1608 in the United States, capital punishment has been employed through various methods, this includes, “firing squads, hanging, electrocution, gas asphyxiation and lethal injection” (Boehnlein, 2013, 240). The purpose of capital punishment is twofold, retribution and…

¨I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty seems appropriate¨ (Kevorkian). In the eighteenth century the death penalty was established by King Hammurabi. Back then the death penalty was the only punishment for a crime. Drowning, beating and burning where some of the methods that were used. Today, society is torn between whether capital punishment is cruel and should not be used or that it is effective in…

The death penalty has continuously been used ever since European settlers brought it over in the seventeenth century. “The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608” (“Part I: History of the Death Penalty”). He was executed for being a spy for Spain. The death penalty varied and each colony had different laws regarding it during colonial times. In Virginia, Governor Sir Thomas Dale enacted the Divine, Moral, and…

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is one the partners responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. His actions killed three people and injured 260 other spectators who were watching runners cross the finish line on this mournfully historic day. Now almost two years later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is giving his jury a hard decision between sentencing him to life in prison and sentencing him to death. The New York Times article entitled, “Question in Boston Bombing Trial: For Tsarnaev to Testify or Not,”…

Mahatma Gandhi once said “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”. There has always been controversy revolving around whether capital punishment is the proper way to serve justice upon certain circumstances. There are more humane ways of dealing with crime and conflict rather than the death penalty. There are multiple reasons why there is controversy revolving around capital punishment. There have been too many cases where the wrongly accused have been sentenced to death…

Human life is arguably the most precious thing on this planet, and the decision to take that life away should not be taken lightly. Nearly every major country in the world has abolished the use of capital punishment in their legal system. The United States, however, has not. In America, thirty-four states allow the death penalty, most of whom use lethal injection when executing these cases. But, the question isn’t is lethal injection humane, but rather, is execution itself humane and is the…

In criminal law, a guilty conviction means that the defendant has been found beyond any reasonable doubt to be guilty of the crime. In cases of homicide not all of them are considered crimes the only case when it is regarded as a "not guilty" is the plaintiff proves beyond any reasonable doubt that it was a self-defense act that led to death. This means that the murder was not premeditated, intentional, followed by malice aforethought to kill an individual. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet follows the…

War is a word that usually has a negative connotation associated with it. When people think of war, most will think of death and destruction. However, some people also associate war with self-sacrifice and honour. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson are the two poems that can show these two different point of views on war. These two poems share the same topic which is war but each view the topic in its own different way. Wilfred…