Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

Capital punishment is a very controversial topic in today’s society and many American states are asking themselves whether they should abolish death penalty or keep it. The Death Penalty has a long history. The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) (2016) shows that while 19 states have abolished the death penalty in the United States, currently, there are 31 states that still implement the death penalty in their legal process. The New York Times article, “California Today: Why Californians…

‘Killing people is wrong’, a statement everyone can stand behind, however, in some arguments, would depend on who did the killing (Koch 483). The death penalty has been under the watchful eye of the United States population for some time now, and has developed an audience on both sides of the argument. Many believe the death penalty is morally wrong, alluding to scriptures from the Bible. Others would argue the death penalty is a way of justice for the murderers and ultimately for the victims.…

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, written by the brilliant Bryan Stevenson is a book that focuses on the controversial topic of the death penalty and racial injustice while weaving in themes of Freedom, Justice, Forgiveness and most importantly Mercy. Bryan Stevenson is an attorney that fights for the freedom of wrongdoing in the American justice system by taking on cases such as wrongly convicted, youth convictions and racial injustices. With Stevenson being an expert in the field,…

refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.” These words were spoken by Albert Camus, a famous philosopher in the 1900’s. The death penalty is an act of execution performed on someone who has been accused of a capital crime. The types of punishments used today are lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, and hanging. Out of the fifty states in the US, only nineteen have abolished the death penalty. In the other thirty-one states, it is still in…

The Murder of Navroze Mody: Race, Violence, and the Search for Order is a journal written by Deborah Misir in 1996. Misir was a third-year law student at the University of Minnesota at the time. Almost a decade passed after this article was published on Navroze Mody in volume 22 number 2 on pages 55-75 (Misir). Mody was 30 years old when he decided to get a drink in Hoboken, NJ with his non-Indian business friend. However, Mody never made it home, he was beaten and mugged by a group of Hispanic…

The execution of Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams caused a considerable amount of controversy, as recounted in the case study “Redemption and Capital Punishment” in the textbook. The execution of Williams was not controversial because he was considered of having been innocent of the crimes he was convicted of or that capital punishment was necessarily too severe for his crimes (for he had been convicted of murdering several people), but rather because he was considered to have repented…

Beyond Reasonable Doubt Adnan Syed was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Hae Min Lee, and sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years on February 25, 2000. But this story started a year earlier, when Hae Min Lee went missing on January 13, 1999. Her disappearance turned into a murder investigation when her strangled body was found February 9, buried in a shallow grave in Leakin Park, Baltimore. This case wasn’t a big news back then, but it was reignited when Serial’s host…

the way we punish people including capital punishment. In addition to this it includes the origin of the presumption of innocence, since it is now required that we have evidence before we convict someone of a crime. Salem laws had a lead role in the cruel and deadly punishments of the Salem Witch trials even though there were ways to escape the punishments. Since then, it has helped change the way of our punishments today, yet we still keep the capital punishment for those more severe crimes.…

The Murder of Emmett Till Getting away with murder is never the right thing. In the biographical story Getting Away With Murder by Chris Crowe, Emmett Till’s killers did just that: they got away with murder. Not only that, but they also got paid for telling stories about how they killed Emmett. I highly recommend this book to people that are into murder stories. This book is very descriptive. Chris Crowe is very descriptive on how his mother was very worried about Emmett going to Mississippi…

unconstitutional under Article I, section 15 of the Oregon constitution. Haselton responds to this claim using ethos stating that “Article I, section 15, of the Oregon Constitution provides a basis for challenging the constitutionality of “[l]aws for the punishment of crime,” not for challenging the length of a particular individual’s sentences” (para. 19). By referencing Article I, section 15 of the Oregon constitution, Haselton demonstrates his credibility and knowledge of the legal system. By…