Capital punishment in Singapore

don't believe we should give death penalties to criminals because it’s going against the Eighth Amendment, violating human rights and government is going into a economic decline. Even though the Eighth Amendment states that cruel and unusual punishment should not be allowed in the United Stated, we still have death penalties. Executing someone is considered cruel. The Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, had invalidated most of the statutes allowing the death penalty in…

prevent it, human has created the punishment system to scare others from sin, and the ultimate payment for a crime is death sentence. Death penalty was and still thought to be the most effective and definitive way of examples for crimes’ consequences. Since 1976, the death penalty was re-instituted in the U.S: Texas has executed the total of 529 criminals (DPIC 1). Although death penalty is one of the solutions for crimes, there are some opinions debate that this punishment is cruel and immoral.…

John Grisham, the author of The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, explores a legitimate criminal case that rattled the small town of Ada, Oklahoma from 1982 and on. Debbie Carter, a 21-year-old woman who worked at a bar called the Coachlight, was brutally murdered in her own home on December 7, 1982. She was found in her bedroom, covered in bruises and messages written in ketchup and surrounded by evidence, such as a bloody palm print, hair, fingerprints, and more messages. The…

Life in Prison Should a person be sentenced to life in prison for providing heroin to someone who died? The answer to that question depends on so many factors that it cannot be answered without more information. Although state and federal laws have been put in place for drug violations, they are only meant to be guidelines with the judge given discretion as to the final sentence. These guidelines are continually changing as drugs and crimes evolve. I don’t believe there is enough…

It is very interesting to read how two important articles have different ideas, opinions, and information about the Dharun Ravi case. The Merciful End of the Trial of Dharun Ravi article was written by Emily Bazelon an American journalist and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine. On the other hand, Steven Goldstein a civil rights activist, professor, and the founder of Garden State Equality, wrote Dharun Ravi is Sentenced. Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, and was a former…

have committed these unforgivable crimes should not be given a way out, and should have to feel the pain that they have dished out to their victims. I myself support the death penalty. The people who commit these horrible acts should face the worst punishment, which is death. If these people continued living in the normal world, they would create havoc. First off,…

society, as imperfect and naturally chaotic humans decide to end the life of another? By being human, it means that we are naturally chaotic and vengeance-seeking. Humans should not dictate whether or not someone should leave this world. All capital punishment is is a Machiavellian way for…

1,264 people have legally been killed and counting by our very own government asserts the Death Penalty Information Center. What are we teaching our children? Killing people is wrong, so we should kill murders. Does this make any sense? There are so many aspects of the death penalty that citizens do not know about nor understand. It is such a controversial topic and widely debated, mainly for moral reasons, yet the facts are rarely used as evidence. As I speak to you ladies and gentlemen in…

Throughout history, the death penalty has remained a longstanding decision with no likely end in sight. As it stands, capital sentencing is still highly discretionary allowing for the affluence of extra legal factors in determining its imposition. As a capital punishment, the death penalty is only applied in cases that involve murder and some form of aggravating factor that heightens the seriousness of the crime or a crime against the state. In the 1970s, the landmark case of Furman v. Georgia…

Even though there are a multiplicity of people who hold the opposite side of the opinion about random locker searches, there are fascinating number of individuals who believe that random locker searches should be manacled. Above all, random locker searches will be an invader to students penetralia. Random locker searches can be a huge invader to the student private items. If a student of the school has some kind of distemper has to have medicine and want to keep the disease a secret, then he…