Cruel and unusual punishment

pseudo environment in peoples minds paints a perfect world of what they believe is equal treatment and punishment, but in the environment, or better known as the real world, racial inequalities and disparities are achingly present in the forms of prison sentencing and capital punishment policies. The capital punishment policy, or better known as the death penalty, is the policy…

“While some may argue that the Death Penalty is cheaper to invoke than to incarcerate an offender in prison for life, studies do not bear that out.” (Allen, Latessa, Ponder, 2013) However on the same note there has never been an adult sentenced to life without parole in the United States that has ever gotten released out on parole. Prisoners that are actually serving life without parole actually remain in prison for the rest of their lives and actually end up dying in prison. There are several…

Picture a time where you were alone and snowed in at your house. Initially, you enjoy the relaxation, sleep, and peacefulness until you develop cabin fever and mild claustrophobia. Now imagine how you would feel after spending months, or even years trapped in this environment. That is what prisoners endure when they are placed in solitary confinement. The only difference is that they are trapped in a windowless concrete room. Since 1980, the number of incarcerations in America has more than…

The Cruel and Unusual Reign of Rafael Trujillo In reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, one can observe the dictator present in the novel is a cruel, Iron-fisted ruler. This Dictator, Rafael Trujillo, was dictator of The Dominican Republic for over 30 years. From 1930 to 1961, the year of his assassination, Trujillo held a threatening presence throughout the country. Because of the many ways he would instill fear into the population, it is identifiable that Trujillo…

Brianna Green POS 101 01 10/14/14 Position paper How do liberals and conservatives feel about abortion? Liberals say that a women has the right to choose what she does to her baby and body. They believe that a fetus is not a human life until birth, so it does not have any rights. The government should fund abortions for any women that cannot afford the procedure. They believe that it’s the women’s personal choice to do as she pleases with her own body and the government has to protect this…

murders, homicides, serial killers, and other tragedies. It is an uncommon occurrence to make it through a day in this world and not hear of these tragedies. So what can be done about these crimes? Today, there is an ongoing debate over capital punishment, questioning whether it is morally right or wrong. We, as human beings, have an undeniable privilege on our own lives, but do the lives of others belong to us as well? Do we, as members of society have the right to decide if someone lives or…

Dill is to be punished by death penalty changing his sentence from prison time to death. However it is to be noted that “Mr. Dill should have been shielded from the death penalty because of his intellectual disability”-(pg 284). This punishment was unjust and cruel as Jimmy was suffering from mental illness and also was not proven to be the actual cause of the death of the victim. Also capital murder “requires the intent to kill, and there was a persuasive argument that there was no intent to…

restore victims, and to return offenders who leave prison to be self-sufficient and law-abiding, but prisons are seen today, as instruments of punishment instead of methods to rehabilitate. What the criminal justice system has become is an enormous failure that…

alone is projected to spend around one billion dollars in the next five years on the death penalty. Capital punishments adds up to be 24 million for every individual person in the United States(Source). This ends up costing more than keeping a person in prison for the duration of their life. Do people agree with capital punishment? Whether individuals are for, against, or only for capital punishment in heinous crimes, everyone will agree it needs to be more cost efficient. A study conducted in…

This question concerns the comparative Nature of constitutions specifically the UK’s constitution which is uncodified and the constitutions of nearly all other countries in the world that have a codified constitution. Consequently this essay will examine the characteristics of the Codified constitution it will then go on two discuss the United Kingdom’s constitution and the way in which law’s may be changed in the UK as compared to elsewhere. Prior to discussing the Nature of constitutions…