Capital punishment in Singapore

Juveniles should not be sentenced to life without parole for first degree murder. We don’t treat kids as adults in society, so why should we punish them as adults. The document video Lost for Life: 2014 tells us stories of kids who are in the juvenile system for mistakes that they deeply regret. Brian and Torey killed a girl because Brian wanted to be known as something and Torey wanted his fantasy of Scream to come to life. Brian and Torey both deeply regret what they did. Jacob killed his mom…

4-year-old Derrick Robie in a park in Steuben County, New York. Eric dropped two big rocks on Derrick's head which caused his death. According to the text, “Eric was tried as an adult and was sentenced for 9 years-to-life in prison”(Mauro 1). Eric’s punishment was fair because his crime was brutal even though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist with intermittent explosive disorder, a mental disorder that causes people to act out violently and…

rather than a form of punishment. Although death is another story, many people do fear that. The United States should use the death penalty because the use of it deters crime, it is cheaper than feeding an inmate for life, and it also gives the families the closure they deserve. The usage of the death penalty deters the crime rate. Using the death penalty shows criminals that their actions will not be tolerated lightly in society. If people can willingly hurt…

At first glance, it seems as though the Old Testament is riddled with numerous examples of hypocrisy when it comes to God's command of prohibiting murder. To address this perceived hypocrisy, one must understand that there is a difference between the acts of murder and killing and its role in balancing the universe. From a legal standpoint, the act of murder is defined as "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought" (Purver, J.M., 1966), whereas, the act of killing is to…

Hey, Pedro, have you ever heard of a famously female named Amanda Knox who was convicted of, and then acquitted of, the same murder twice in 2007? Well, Ms. Knox spent four years in prison before being freed in 2011, for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, Ms. Knox’s roommate. (Brayson, 2016) However, Ms. Knox’s case was re-tried in 2013 for the same murder because of biological evidence for DNA analysis. Ms. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were tied to Kercher's murder…

approached in a different manner all due to the way that the government in a certain country had stated it. For example, in the book, A Tale of Two Cities, the way that people were punished when something bad was done, the guillotine was used as a punishment and was seen as a practice after the first couple of times; people who were innocent were sometimes killed by the guillotine. Charles Dickens writes, “‘Down, Evremonde! To the Guillotine all aristocrats! Down Evremonde!’” (260). This quote…

another human and in 1990 only 2.9% of 2,234 juveniles were sentenced to life. That means that 2,166 murders depending on the actual sentence they received were returned back to society. When a juvenile commits a crime they need to have the same punishment as an adult, especially if it is a life sentence crime. People do not change, humans are creatures of habit, we return to our old ways when something doesn’t go the way we want it. In 26 states, any person found guilty of first-degree murder…

In criminal law, when a person commits an act or fails to act in a certain way, which results in death of another, the former may be charged with what is referred to murder. There are different classifications of homicide, referred to as degrees. There is first degree murder, in which case the circumstances clearly show a premeditated or aforethought intent to end the life of another which attracts a death sentence or life imprisonment. Second degree murder, is a lesser degree form of homicide.…

Lastly, juveniles have a background or grew up in a bad environment that causes them to murder, or cause other heinous crimes. For example, Brandon McInerney was tried as an adult for shooting his former classmate, Larry King. He shot King in the head twice. Sandy Banks first highlights that Brandon McInerney is an athlete, who grew up in a bad environment from his parent’s home and is mostly teased in school by his friends because Larry King had a crush on him. “Brandon was a strapping athlete…

The death penalty is Bias, Costly, and very Ineffective. This is shown by many sources including books, articles, and even government databases yet the death penalty is still used to this day. Tom Robinson case in To Kill a Mockingbird is a prime example to all of these reasons of why the death penalty should be abolished. As Atticus said in the novel “A court is only as is and if the jury is biased in the slightest, the trial is usually ineffective. The death penalty is biased in many ways. In…