Capital punishment in the United States

experienced democratic systems of crime and punishment. Crimes against a religious book are nothing new to Christians and those of any faith. The laws in a modern society of a nation that observes Sharia law seems archaic. Even more difficult to accept are the punishments handed out in accordance with the prescribed hudud punishments that are ‘fixed’ punishments handed out and assigned depending on the crime committed. Sharia law has more in common with a tyrannical state like Nazi fascism in…

Inquiry question: what make people participate in such horrible events like the Holocaust, My Lai Massacre, and Abu Ghraib prison along with the conflicts that happened in Iraq, are they naturally evil or the situation that they are put in is evil? Paul Joseph Watson is showing in his article that military soldiers are normal individuals that are put in situations that they can not do anything about but do what they were told. Watson is revealing a story of an Iraq war veteran named Daniel…

On today’s Mythbusters episode they were testing if a bug were to hit you at high speeds on a motorcycle could it kill you before you even hit the ground. The cast members that were on this experiment were Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara, and Jessi Combs. They first started by going to see a physician Dr. Billy Trolan to ask if there was any way or pressure points on the body where an insect could hit and actually killed you before you hit the ground. They were then shown a chart and it showed them…

tend to do; Montresor did not hint at Fortunato's immolation "by word nor deed (p. 212)." Montresor knew enough about Fortunato from their 'frienship' (Montresor probably never actually formed a serious friendship with Fortunato because of his mental state) that he could use Fortunato's characteristics to his advantage. For example, he knew that Fortunato "had a weak point...he prided himself on connoisseurship in wine (p. 212)." Hence, Montresor tricked a drunken and prideful Fortunato into…

however there are many instances in which citizens, being dissatisfied with how the law serves its justice, take matters into their own hands. These citizens however are often providing justice to a crime with more crime and are often not in the right state of mind. Both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Willian Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” deal with crimes that essentially go unpunished and with the emotions that accompany these crimes. The narrator’s point of view in each of these…

When most people think about the French Revolution, they think about the guillotine and the thousands killed by it. Invented by Dr. Guillotine, the guillotine was supposed to slice the head of the person being executed and result in a quick and painless (relatively speaking) death. As far as those who kept their heads can tell, it worked. However, despite the brisk death, those that were killed suffered. Many of them suffered despite being innocent. During the French Revolution, many people…

The Mexican culture which is both collectivistic and masculinity has a higher peak of aggression. These two values may suggest that “Mexican young adults indicate that individuals from Mexico—presumably a relatively collectivist culture—may engage in somewhat more violent acts” (). This study suggests that Mexican adult has more tendency to violence since in collectivist cultures its seems more acceptable of violence. Mexican men are more violent than women since collectivistic “particularly…

Utilitarianism is the philosophy that one’s morality is based on the result of the action. Regardless if the action is morally good or wrong, what matters is if the result was in favored of a good deed. Utilitarianism focus on the well-being of the people. If the result contributes to the betterment of one’s life, then there are no wrongdoings. For example, the death penalty is a justifiable act by the government because criminals have badly injured or killed a member of the community. Another…

This movie portrays the law system as being unjust, and the fact that justice is served by the work of the Haller, the main character not the law system. This film also stresses the flaws of the law system, and all the flaws of the law system are due to current rules and laws. The flaws of the law system include allowing the judge to give a directed verdict, the death penalty, and plea deals. For some these may not seem like flaws but in the movie they are presented as flaws of the legal system,…

American who was sentenced to six strokes of the cane in Singapore for theft and vandalism. I believe that his punishment was justifiable. After all he was in a foreign country, so shouldn’t he have to face the consequences of that country? If you go into a country that is not your home, and commit a crime, then you should have to face the consequences of the country that you are in. Was the punishment for Fay’s crime a bit harsh? Yes it was, but did he deserve it? Yes because if he was not…