Capital punishment in the United States

The Incident Nannie Doss, also known as, “The Giggling Grannie” and “Arsenic Annie” killed 11 people across four states. Doss killed those who were closest to her between the years of 1920 and 1954. She killed four of her husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, her mother-in-law, and her grandson. When she would kill her beloved ones, it would look as if they died of natural causes, not from murder. What Doss did was she would poison them by rat poison or she would use arsenic.…

legislator. The authors main point follows after they address the problem with trying to connect the issue of the death penalty with widely held moral views. They assert that the real question concerning the death penalty is the issue of whether capital punishment can be administered in an acceptable way, not if the death penalty is moral or not. Ultimately, it is evident that Putnam and Reams defend the New Hampshire statutes of the death penalty. Yet, they acknowledge that it is up to the…

Leonard Peltier was not as fortunate as his fellow AIM members. At his trial in 1977 the jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. His trial and verdict are still a contentious issue with people adamantly defending his innocence and others just as sure of his guilt. Peltier’s supporters point to a number of specific events at his trial, for instance, not allowing key witnesses to testify and, unlike the Robideau/Butler trial in Iowa, severely restricting…

"This is not snitching, this is life and death," Priebe-Diaz, an expert of district intervention, said (Rivera). Bullying sometimes end in death of the victims. Bullying is a serious problem all over the world. According to a survey, the percentage of students who are related to the bullying is estimated to be 20 to 30 (Healy 1). Understanding the characteristic of bullying is important to find a solution. However, bullying reflects culture and character of the community. Therefore, the…

The death sentence as capital punishment is an example of how bio-power and necropolitics can be inextricably linked. Discuss. Bio-power is a concept developed by Michel Foucault. Essentially, bio-power looks at ‘docile bodies’ and how they are used by the state to increase the capital and production of the state. It poses the question; how can the health and well-being of the nation benefit the production of the nation state? Necropolitics builds on Foucault’s idea of bio-power. Bio-power is…

The Surprises I am astounded with the comprehensive narration of history of murder in the United States from Prof. Abate’s introduction, especially to the facts that Murder has become so engrained in many aspects of Americans’ lives : from television to video games, from movie cinemas to murder trials, from novels to children’s literatures. The introduction part of the study portrays a long trace of history on how this nation has been exposed to human - taking - other humans’ lives -…

Bland’s death has been widely debated and discussed by many citizens around the United States and also by many experts on crimes and treatment of people. Sandra Bland was a native to the city of Chicago although, she had been in Texas at the time of the traffic stop (Lai, and Park). Ms. Bland was in the state of Texas to accept a recent job offer at Prairie View A&M (Montgomery). On her ride Sandra is stopped by Texas state trooper Encinia for failing to use her signal while driving…

Hickock recruited Perry Smith after he is led to believe the Clutter’s small ranch house bears a safe containing $10,000 by his former cellmate in the Kansas State Penitentiary, Floyd Wells (Capote 161). The duo plan to invade the home, clean out the safe, and retreat to mexico, steadfast in their decision that “anyone they encountered would not live to bear witness,” (Capote…

His punishment was the death penalty, which he served was served on January 24, 1989. His last words were, “”I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends” (344). His friends remained shocked and his mother stood by his side defending him until he was…

Foucault claims that the state is at the centre of modern racism, believing other conceptions of racism are more suited to earlier eras. According to Foucault, modern states exercise their power by administrating life; in contrast to previous centuries, these states are preoccupied with life itself, rather than death. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault attributes the term ‘biopower’ to this idea, meaning states now have the “the right to ‘make’ live and to ‘let’ die.” It is in opposition…