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In Stephen Nathanson’s book, An Eye for an Eye, he argues against capital punishment by discussing the problems of the most common argument for the death penalty: the Equal Punishment Principle. He also discusses the problems with sub-category theories of the Equal Punishment Principle: quality/proportional retributivism, and ends by offering the reader what abolishing the death penalty would grant to society. Nathanson believes the Equal Punishment Principle if fallible, because it is difficult…

Forensics is defined as scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime. The chemical advancements developed in this field stem from hundreds of years ago, where poisons, especially arsenic, were an extremely popular way of killing people. This led to the first organized criminal investigation using a chemical test in 1752. This was the Blandy Trail, where the suspected poison was arsenic, and tests were conducted to prove so. Some of these early tests include…

death, to its failure to fulfill the state’s responsibility in the least harmful way possible, to its assumption of absolute certainty. The means of carrying out executions has changed significantly over time. Hanging, firing squads, and the electric chair have given way to lethal injection as society has sought to make execution as humane as possible, in part to avoid accusations that capital punishment is in violation of the eighth amendment’s…

for centuries. Each state uses different forms of the death penalty. The most commonly used form of the death penalty is given through lethal injection. Other forms of the death penalty include, a firing squad, hanging, gas chambers and the electric chair. Many will argue that any form of the death penalty is morally wrong. They believe taking a person’s life does not justify them for the crime in the first place. Others will argue the opposite and say the punishment should fit the crime. While…

One of the most important and controversial part of the Eighth Amendment is the cruel and unusual clause. Not only because it is focused on the death penalty. When think about the cruel and unusual punishment clause you can think about how it is measured and what are the types of punishments that are considered to be unusual. Throughout the year the procedures of the capital punishment has changed depending on what was considered to be a violation to the Eight Amendment. This not only affect the…

Theodore Robert Bundy or widely known as Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer in the 1970s, in which he raped and murdered young women in several states. Report states that his murder episodes begin in the 1975 when he moved away from his home to Salt Lake City (McCall, 1980). It is said that he lured young women into his car before driving to a secluded place, he will raped them before beating them to death (McCall, 1980). His victims were usually young women from ordinary household (Gehrke,…

methods used in America today for executions: lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electrocution, and hanging. Most executions in America started off as hanging. Prior to the 1890's hanging was the most common method, followed by the electric chair and now it is mostly lethal injection. 32 states plus the federal government use lethal injection as the primary method. Lethal is a three-step process. Once the inmate is strapped down with ankle and wrist restraints on a gurney in the…

The Presence of Physicians for Lethal Injection Summary of Major Ethical Positions Physician participation is required in 17 of the 35 states that currently use lethal injection as their main form of execution (Giby, 34). Whether or not this requirement is ethically acceptable as deemed by many medical associations becomes a conflict with the state laws in which these executions are taking place, and also with the federal rulings regarding capital punishment. The American Medical Asssociation…

these public gatherings to watch people being executed. Just like the evolution of technology for executions, they started from hangings, firing squads, or the electric chair to now lethal injections, we need to keep the way we administer executions the same. An example would be the Shaw case, according to Bruck, “The electric chair was Shaw’s platform…while Shaw died, the TV crews recorded another “curiosity” of the death penalty the crowd gathered outside the death house to cheer on the…

Serial Killer’s have been present in our society for centries. Furthermore, the term evil has no fluent meaning throughout humans history, today that changes. The definition of evil is not one that is easily defined nor readily available to us as a human species. However through the study of serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Albert Fish. and their treatment in the court system, one facet of a very large topic can be explored in an attempt to place a…