Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

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    mentally or emotionally. In Sherman Alexie’s “Capital Punishment,” the speaker spends his or her time going through the motions of their job while their mind is elsewhere, namely, on a prisoner with an imminent death sentence. It cannot be assumed that the speaker is the poet, because there is a lack of sufficient evidence to account for this claim; however, certain facts may lead readers to presume that it is the case. The speaker in “Capital Punishment” is a cook at a jail in which the death…

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    In Cahn’s article “God and Morality,” it talks about if people believe the existence of God or not and if they feel safer if there is a God there. It also states that if God does exist, than is killing moral or immoral according to God. There are some people in the world that do believe that God created everything, so if you kill God’s creation than it is immoral because why would God want you to kill something he created. But there are other people out there that think murder is moral because…

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    Did you know that there were 6 million people in the holocaust because Hitler said they caused their problems? Many camps were used to kill jews but there was a special one named Sobibor that killed 250,000. Sobibor wasn’t only a very deceiving place, but it’s arrival tricked you, it's work, and it’s death place tricked the people that went there, and the lifestyle there. The arrival of Sobibor was very cruel. They would make you ride a train with only the food you had brought with you. The…

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    Neutralization Theory

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    Initially, the neutralization theory infuses elements such as blame the victim and appeal to higher loyalties in the prism of violence theory. Neutralization was develop by a couple of sociologist named David Matza, and Gresham Sykes in 1957 while doing research on juvenile delinquency. The two wrote in their article in their article called Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency and it states that “The world of delinquent is the world of law-abiding turned upside down and its norm…

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    I am writing to you regarding your article about the execution of Robert Harris who murdered two young guys for no reason. In my opinion, Harris deserved to die because he had very aggressive behaviour. Murdering people is not a good thing and he had to die. He didn’t deserve even the life imprisonment because it is very expensive to keep him alive. I am shocked at your anti-death penalty attitude, demonstrated in your article ‘I see a killer die’. Do you think that Baker family would be…

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    Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) is a documentary made by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima regarding the brutal murder of Chinese-American engineer, Vincent Chin, and the aftermath of the first judicial decision of the incident. His murderers, Ronald Ebens and Ebens’ stepson, Michael Nitz, faced minimal repercussions (3 years probation and $3700 fine) for clubbing the young man to death after a verbal altercation at a Detroit bar & strip-club. The documentary allows Ronald Ebens and his wife and…

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    On October 22nd, we had a powerful presentation from Chris Sandy and Eric Krug. Chris Sandy shared his story of two fatalities due to drinking and driving. He was charged and convicted on two counts of vehicular homicide by DUI and spent 9 years in prison for his crime. During his imprisonment, Chris wanted to commit himself to preventing others from repeating his mistakes. This decision assisted him in sharing his powerful story now called, “Enduring Regrets”, with the juniors and seniors of…

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    Stojcevski Case Study

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    32-year-old David Stojcevski was put under suicide watch for erratic behavior. Negligence of prison guards in a high observation unit caused him to die in custody, under their ‘watchful’ eye. David had been fined $772 for careless driving. He was financially unable to pay the fines, so instead he was sentenced to spend 30 days in Macomb County Jail (Michigan). His family did not expect that to become a life sentence. The video procured via freedom of information requests (FOIA) by Kevin Dietz,…

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    Allie Durbin AP Language and Composition Mrs. Smith August 18, 2016 The Grapes of Wrath Comparison Ethics vs Laws "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"(Harriet Tubman). Harriet Tubman was known for breaking the law for all the right reasons, simply to save the lives of the innocent. In the novels The Adventures of Huck Finn written by Mark Twain, and The Grapes of Wrath written by…

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    Tupac Assassination

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    Former LAPD, Greg Kading, belives that Sean (Diddy) Combs had Tupac Shakur murdered for 1 million dollars. There are other accusations such as The Illumanti had him killed because of his power, or the Jewish Defense League made death threats towards Tupac and wanted him dead. There are a lot more accusations that could or could not be true. However these have been the most popular. A lot of people are still wondering what happened to Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight went to see an MMA…

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