Capital punishment in Singapore

The opposition believes that juveniles should be allowed to be sentenced to mandatory life in prison.the opposition claims that recent brain research made on teen brains has nothing to do with teens committing crime. Author of On Punishment and Teen Killers, Jennifer Jenkins claims that, “ Advocates often repeat, but truly misunderstand brain research on this issue. The actual science does not… in any way negate criminal culpability” (Jenkins). The idea behind this statement is that…

Trey Hawkins October 17, 2017 Hsia, R. Po-Chia. Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, In Trent 1475, R. Po-Chia Hsia writes about the persecution of three Jewish families. The families of Samuel, Tobias, and Engel were accused, arrested, tortured, and some executed by the local Church of Trent for the murder of a small, Christian boy named Simon Unferdorben, son of Andreas, for the use in a Jewish religious ritual. The corpse of…

Responses to Crime The case I chose was Pedro Espinoza trial in the Murder of Jamiel Shaw because it has been such a hot topic in the media and I wanted to know more about it. Espinoza was an Illegal alien from Mexico with a long and violent criminal history and part of the 18 St gang and had just been released from serving 4 months of an 8-month sentence. Within 28 hours he murdered 17-year-old high school football star being recruited by Stanford Jamiel Shaw with one shot to the stomach and…

of solitary confinement for extended periods of time, is an inhumane approach to punishing, and causes harm, rather than reform the offender. Research Direction In this paper I will focus on depicting as to why solitary confinement is a cruel punishment for inmates, who themselves should never be placed under such conditions due to their mental health. In addition, I will exemplify the mental and physical effects of solitary confinement with the use of prior research conducted in corrections,…

The Stranger beside Me: “The Stranger beside Me” is a biographical crime book based on a real story and is written by Ann Rule. This book is all about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was well known to Rule as she was quite close to him in several series of murders he committed. The reason for choosing this book is that it provides detailed explanation about how and when was the wrongdoings were committed against the law. It describes how the serial killer, Ted Bundy, executed…

Gerald Scarpelli was the defendant in the case of Gagnon v. Scarpelli. A felon who was out of jail on probation prior to his arrest for burglary. Due to Scarpelli’s arrest for burglary, he admitted to the crime and his probation was revoked by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections for violation of his probation conditions. A habeas corpus was filed two years later by Gerald Scarpelli with the District Court, because he sat in jail without a revocation hearing nor right to an attorney, denying…

2017 NO Redemption, NO Justice, & NO Mercy Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer, found the Equal Justice Initiative in the need of the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the criminal justice system. Stevenson took multiple cases, one considerably drawing his attention; a case of a young man sentenced to death falsely accused by the federal court system. This lead Stevenson to finally think of conspiracy, political machinations, and legal brinksmanship towards the United…

In Arthur Miller’s compelling essay, Get it Right: Privatize Executions, he conveys his perspective on public executions and mocks society. As a matter of fact, public executions are not an out-moded subject that has caused disputable opinions. Executions that can be viewed by the public was once a legal practice and a part of history in the United States. Surprisingly, in some coun-tries around the world public executions is viewed as the norm in their culture. It was not unusual for some…

crimes at least based on the Luke 23. 2) The execution ritual is vital to Early Modern criminal justices as a show of force of the state. Although crimes could be high, with an execution, people are put to fear the law since if caught, they face the punishment based on their crimes from hot iron pokes,…

Imagine being charged with a crime that you did not commit. Now imagine the primary evidence against you is the testimony of a person who was offered money or a lower sentence for testifying against you. In addition to that the jury that will decide your case is unaware that the person testifying was offered an incentive for his or her testimony. Imagine being convicted on this testimony alone. This is an example of informant testimony, where a person provides privileged information to law…