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violence on Pine Ridge, as evidence that justice in this case was not impartial but deliberately weighted against him. As Robideau and Butler and already been cleared, Peltier was the government’s last opportunity to see someone pay the price for the deaths of the two FBI agents. Regardless of whether this trial may be used as evidence for governmental bias, it does portray the governmental view of AIM. Before the hearing even began FBI agents would regularly scan the judge’s rooms for…

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…

Especially on the parts that one ‘tribe’ was hunting and killing its members– in any means I would never thought a kid would do. This is when, according to Stallcup, “young characters meet violent punishments and even death because they transgress social boundaries and challenge adult authority” (125, quoted in Abate, p.8). In the story, the boys characters in the story challenge the rules they knew were made by adults, without the existence of adults, resulting in a…

One death penalty case, one single case, costs around $2.4 million (Statistic Brain). Is it worth it? Do lives really need to be taken as retribution for crimes that were committed? Capital Punishment has been around for a very long time, and so has the split between people on the topic. Way back in the day, the death penalty originated as hanging criminals and we gradually moved up as technology did. Now we use forms of execution like lethal injection, and the electric chair. The United States…

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 with the old ‘sovereign power’ which arose in the Middle Ages and manifested its power by administrating death, exercising its right of life only by exercising its right to kill, or by refraining from…

known as “Jimmy the Greek,” was found dead Oct. 18, 1977 inside his bar at closing time, Brown said. Anagnos was stabbed 20 times with a steak knife and had been hit four times in the head with a blunt object, Brown said, adding that the cause of death was from injuries to his head. The hair was found clenched in Anagnos hand, and was believed to have come from the suspect, but the laboratory at the time was not able to match the hair samples to Wright who was 50 at the time of his death.The DNA…

appeals allows a certain point to be made and presented to its reader and/or audience. In his 2015 article, Brad Bushman uses a variety of appeals in order to get his message across: the death penalty is flawed. The first use of appeal he makes is pathos. He grabs the audience’s attention by claiming that the death penalty sometimes takes an innocent person’s life. He writes in his article: “ It is difficult to know for sure how many innocent people have been executed, but it appears at least…

and author of The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. He takes the standpoint in favor of the death penalty and that those who oppose it, whatever the intention, cannot hold against the argument. A minor point of his would be that opponents tend to avoid cases where the audience would not sympathize with their argument. After reading his article “Why Death Penalty Opponents Can’t Win,” I agree with his opinion because it deters crime, there are cases where uncertainty is…

phrase, “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” due to the laws stating that if a man takes another man’s eye or knocks out his teeth, he too must lose an eye or have the same number of teeth knocked out. Additionally, robbers were to be given the death penalty and unruly sons who struck their fathers were to have their hands sawn off. But as a result of these laws and the steep punishments for violating them, one can imagine that the Mesopotamian region saw fewer eyeless men, rarely felt the…

Most states have enacted statutes, which limit the time in which crimes can be prosecuted. These time limits are referred to as "Statutes of Limitations." Once the statute of limitations has expired, it becomes an absolute bar to prosecution. Out of the fifty states in the nation, only two do not have a statute of limitations when it comes to criminal cases. South Carolina and Wyoming. What is a Statute of Limitations? A statute of limitation is a law that prevents a person or government…