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The debate on whether the death penalty should continue is an argument fought strongly on both sides. The phrase an eye for an eye (Exodus 21:24) tells us that if we are done wrong we deserve compensation from the one doing wrong to us. Every state is different on what they feel warrants for the death penalty but the one crime every state agrees on is murder. Society is split saying that the death penalty is inhumane and a legal unjust while others feel as though it is the only way for the…

Do you feel that the death penalty is worth keeping in place or should we remove it and replace it with something else? For those of you who may not know the death penalty is a form of punishment throughout history and largely reserved for perpetrators of a killing of another person or a big enough crime that can get some people killed. Many people do not agree with this type of punishment and today I would be summarizing some author’s thoughts on this matter. In the articles the death penalty…

“Everybody has got good and evil in them. I’d like to be 100% evil, but I can’t. I’m too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.” - (Richard Ramirez/The NIghtStalker)(1). Most serial killers kill because of the rough and unpleasant childhoods, others kill for enjoyment and the desire to kill. In this paper, we have researched about these two’s childhoods.…

Annotated Bibliography Aronson, Jay D., and Simon A. Cole. “Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and The Debate over Capital Punishment in the United States.” Law & Social Inquiry 34.3 (2009): 603-633. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. This article suggests that the possibility of executing an innocent person is the most prominent argument against the capital punishment. Aronson and Cole claim there is a degree of uncertainty in criminal justice practices, which can be…

The most fearful aspect of capital punishment is the possibility of the state or government executing the wrong person. As a previous advocate for the death penalty, the argument of innocent people on death row was hard to swallow. I continuously believed in our capital punishment system and had little doubts that people on death row were innocent. However, with a little research, it became blatantly obvious that was not the case. For instance, 135 people on death row have been exonerated…

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…

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,…

sentences reduced confirms that there are issues with the administration of justice. As a citizen of the State of Texas it is our duty to ensure that our justice system works as equitably as possible because at some point we may be the one in the chair. I would not want efficiency to be the governing principle in that…

Is killing people human? Is taking the life of another an acceptable thing in society? That’s how people go to the chair and sit there to rot correct? Then why do we still have the death penalty in the United States? For years the country has been in a heated debate on whether the death penalty is really a valid form of punishment. Problem with the death penalty being an option of punishment is in fact, that most people sent to death sit there for years on end. Moreover, the argument of…