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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…

Death penalty jeopardize the innocent life. In United States of America in 1976, 138 innocent persons has released from the death penalty. Which may kill the innocent person for a crime he did not committed. For example the court may accuse innocent person to be guilty based on the evidence they got, which sometimes its not enough to determine the criminal or that he could not defend himself enough to convince the judge that he is innocents, furthermore it gives the rich people the upper hand…

Death Sentence The death sentence is a sentence issued to effect the killing of a person as punishment for crimes, which is called the death penalty. The death penalty or capital punishment is an act of the government in which a person is executed to punish them for a crime after a law court finds them guilty of the charges brought against them. Many crimes could lead to a death penalty. Offenses such as murder, espionage, treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing such…

Ever since the conviction of Leonard Peltier of first degree murder, there have been numerous arguments over the idea of a pardon. Some believe that political factors may have influenced the way in which the case was prosecuted. Others believe he is completely guilty and the punishment is proportionate. On April 18, 1977, Leonard Peltier was convicted of two counts of first degree murder of FBI Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. Peltier was sentenced to serve two consecutive…

With regards to the question I believe that the death penalty is an effective deterrent. The death penalty has always been a topic that is debated thoroughly. The main theory is if the death penalty was favoured by a country is that it would dissuade people from carrying violent crimes if they will face the ultimate punishment and they know everyone is treated the same so they would go through the pain they caused to other people. Statistics had clearly proven this because in the UK between…

Dr. Freeman was an idealist doctor hungry for fame who would champion the century’s most infamous procedure the lobotomy. He wanted to solve all of the problems of psychiatry and he wanted to do it fast. The lesson here is not how man can go off the rails but how science can go off the rails. Elina was the first patient to undergo the procedure that the doctor had only perfected weeks before he called it transorbital lobotomy. In a transorbital lobotomy, Freeman would first have the patient…

Elena and Joaquin don’t have an ideal relationship. Elena idolized Joaquin throughout her childhood, but while at college she learned all the horrible things he did during the Spanish Civil War. However, her hate for Joaquin subsides when he opens up to her about why he did what he did. He explains to her that he was a “killer of killers”. He was a psychologist for soldiers who were experiencing PTSD and other mental issues that result from war. Patients that were deemed “incurable” would be…

Imagine this, you are just getting home and notice some of your things are gone you see someone exiting your house with your things, you see that it's your neighbor, you take him to court and explain what happened and your neighbor confesses to the crime. All seems normal so far until you realize a new trial begins against you. This is because you “accused” this man of doing a federal crime. The judge the decides to cut your hands off while the criminal goes free. This is an example of…

The Charleston Shooting has been front and center in the news world lately. Not only has it been relevant because of the atrocity of the crime like it has previously, but because Dylan Roof’s trial has been postponed to at least January and the jury will be appointed in November. Roof, a white man killed nine African Americans in the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church an establishment that meant a great deal to the community and its congregation. This case is relevant because it deals…

The death penalty. It’s the highest punishment that can be dished to a convicted person. The problem is that the system of condemning one to that sentence is highly inaccurate. As the article said, “...around 120 of the 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty.” That’s much to high of a number to tolerate. Even one is too much. This punishment is supposed to end the most dangerous and effective criminals. How then are innocent people being killed for the sake of ‘justice’?…