Death row

Humans with their ancestor have perhaps engaged in murder as individuals and in groups for a thousand of years. And atleast the history says everything , violence and politics is directly related. Nation states use violence against internal and external foes. Some authors see the violence as a way to achieve political goals such as territory, safety and glory. Carl Von Clausewitz famously referred to war as a way of achieving things in politics. But on the other hand, a second group of writers…

Throughout the history of time, there have been many different types of serial killers and psychopaths. They have ranged in age, location, gender, religion, and upbringing. The great debate of nature vs nurture always arises when asked what caused the people to do it. Was it because of nature of the beast, or did the person have a traumatic up bringing? Nature vs nurture is not a black and white statement, it is a combination of both that makes the person do and act out the way they did.…

In this essay, I will argue that it is permissible to kill a villainous aggressor, an innocent aggressor, and an innocent threat, but not an innocent bystander. According to Judith Jarvis Thompson, it is morally permissible for person A to kill person B in self-defense if and only if (1) B will kill A unless A kills B, and (2) if B kills A, the B will violate A’s right that B not kill A (Handout #16). The villainous aggressor is someone who is intentionally trying to kill you and who is morally…

The Sacco and Vanzetti case was one of the U.S’s first case with immigrants. After being accused of killing a guard and a paymaster, Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death, after a seven-week trial convicting both of first-degree murder, though not being executed until 1927 (Frankfurter). Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial in the 1920s American’s view of Sacco and Vanzetti's criminality derived from their status as Italian-immigrants, Anarchist beliefs, and the country's social divisiveness, and…

Chapter Four, Show Trial, of Amy Bach’s Ordinary Injustice depicts a case of wrongful conviction that occurred over twenty years ago. Michael Evans and Paul Terry, both ages seventeen, had been charged with raping and murdering nine-year-old Lisa Cabassa. The crime occurred the evening of January 14, 1976, when Lisa and her eleven year old brother Ricky were walking to a friend’s house and got separated. Later when Ricky returned home he and his family realized Lisa never made it home. The only…

you facts from both sides of the death penalty. The death penalty is a very controversial subject. Some people believe that it is wrong to kill a man ever and some believe that if a person kills that they should be killed as well. The arguments that we will see are whether the value of life is enough to not execute a convicted person, if the reason the person is being kills is for vengeance or justice and whether the crime decreases or stays the same if the death penalty is in place. Many…

topic to undertake, I believe the death penalty is one that should be dealt methodically in ordered to reach my desired point. It is excepted that death penalty laws were first set in place in eighteenth century B.C., there were many discrepancies along the way. However, in the present day twenty first century or the first century of the third millennium, the death penalty is becoming less and less know in the United States. It is customarily thought that the death penalty counterbalances Human…

According to the FBI, there were 1,490 murders involving knives in 2013. On the other hand, the number of amazing dishes produced by Gordon Ramsay was numerous. The point being, a knife can be used to cook or to kill. Its utility is wholly dependent on who uses it. Similarly, a mask is only as good as the person who uses it. There are several cultures with rich history involving ceremonies with masks; meanwhile, they have gained a negative connotation after years of popular culture’s misuse. In…

Tokyo Tribunal The International Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Tribunal), on the other hand, did convict Japanese war criminals on charges of rape. However, it stopped short of considering the military sexual slavery of comfort women . In the case before the Tokyo Tribunal , General Matsui Iwane was indicted for charges that included “mass murder, rape, pillage…”, as he had been the commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces, and was commander of Japan’s Central China Expeditionary Force.…

the person who killed the young man was tried by a jury, and the accused was acquitted of the crime. In essence, the criminal justice system worked when viewing this case from that overarching perspective, but when we consider how we got from the death of Trayvon Martin to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, I am of the opinion the case was not handled properly and this brings me to the challenge of explaining "Why not." Neither Zimmerman following Martin, nor Martin walking through the…