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    In the film Dead Man Walking they describe the death penalty as a normal punishment. The townspeople were so used to having that punishment that when it came to it they would say it would give them happiness, or make them feel better after the criminal was dead. In my opinion, I could see how it would make them feel better, because to be honest if it was my child that man raped and killed I would kill them with my own hands. But what I don't understand is why give them the freedom of being free…

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    Despite emanating over two thousand year ago, Aristotle’s teachings are still relevant and can be applied to situations in the modern day. Even today people debate whether or not one can know what is truly moral. Certainly, most legal systems are based upon trying to conclude whether people should be held accountable for various actions. Even so, being legally responsible for something does not necessarily imply that the person is, consequently, also morally responsible, or vice versa. According…

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    others? The treatment of Matthew Poncelet in the film Dead Man Walking shows how the Catholic Social Themes Call to Community, Family, and Participation, Life and Dignity of the Human Person, and Rights and Responsibilities have the potential to be ignored in death penalty cases. The Catholic Social Teaching theme Life and Dignity of the Human Person has the potential to be ignored in death penalty cases, which is shown in the film Dead Man Waking. One of the main principles of the theme Life…

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    people, four point one percent of the people actually were innocent of the crime they were killed for. Death row is a harsh punishment for accidental crimes but, the right thing to do for crimes purposely committed. The Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have many similarities and differences. Directed by Alan Parker, The LIfe of David Gale is about a college professor named David Gale who is part of an anti death penalty group. He is sentenced to death for rape and murder of another…

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    of a Dead Man Walking” In order to feel human, there must be factors that drive this feeling. Someone who depends upon another, a connection, the feeling of compassion all give humanizing detail to life. One must not deprive these details from another, for this feeling is longed for by all. Each must make an effort for another to feel these very moments that impact their existence. Compassion and dependency abolish dehumanization. Through analysing sacrifices in “Memories of a Dead Man Walking”,…

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    moral, religious, legal and discriminatory perspectives in the film Dead Man Walking that are further argued in more detail in the novel Capital Punishment on Trial written by David M. Oshinsky. While I am opposed to the death penalty for its historically racist implications, I can understand the desire to use it for extremely horrendous cases. There were many arguments presented in favor of the death penalty in the film Dead Man Walking, specifically from the victim's lawyer who argued Matthew…

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    When Sister Helen Prejean wrote the book Dead Man Walking, she was seeking to unmask the illogical ideas behind the death penalty. Her intent was to save prisoners from the horrors of the death penalty, while exposing the faulty reasoning behind it. Prejean’s novel is a wonderful example of disobedience…

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    opinion loud and clear. There are many different views on the death penalty. The two films, The Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking put these views into perspective. David Gale has a very different background than Matthew Poncelet. They both are accused of similar crimes but, the audience soon discovers how flawed the justice system truly is. The Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have similarities and differences. In The Life of David Gale, a professor, named David Gale, was accused…

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    Helen Prejean Thesis

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    Helen Prejean is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in Louisiana. Now, she is involved with death row inmates at the Louisiana State Prison in Angola. The thesis of her article is “I see the death penalty as connected to the three deepest wounds of our society: racism, poverty, and violence.” Helen Prejean states in her writing that she refuses to believe that God would put hate to hate and violence to violence together. She said she does not believe that God provides human…

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    labor and man. Marx’s concept of alienation stems from man’s activity, went but to toward the goal of production. Marx in Estranged Labour held “the worker to his own activity as an alien activity not belonging to him; it is activity as suffering, strength as weakness, begetting as emasculating,…[thus] Here we have self-estrangement, as previously we had the estrangement of the thing.” Essentially Marx held that as a species-being that production was part of man’s nature…

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