Punishments

Punishment For Hate Crime And Crime Motivated By Anger A crime always remains a criminal offense committed either a hate crime or a crime motivated by anger or revenge. The problem arises in deciding the kind of punishment and its severity for a crime. Should a hate crime be punished more severely ? Should the crime motivated by anger or greed be more severe? And why are hate crimes more heinous than crime motivated by revenge? Criminal Laws are different for states or countries .When it…

Capital punishment is an outdated method to deal with prisoners that have committed dreadful felonies. Currently 32 states have the death penalty in the United States. The U.S. is the only country on the western hemisphere with this punishment while countries in the middle east still have it. Since 1970, 1,400 felonies have been executed and 28 death penalties this past year. In due time the death penalty will be removed and with America’s luck that’s going to be the same era, where crime levels…

A very debatable topic in America, and the world is capital punishment. To me personally killing someone no matter what the crime is wrong. It has been around since the early colonization of America. In 1608 Captain George Kendall became the first recorded execution.“The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller took place around this time. The setting of this play takes place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem witch trials. In the play whether or not the accused were actually guilty or…

The death penalty is a quick, socially acceptable, population reducing and effective method of execution for criminals. This essay will cover five specific topics which are: euthanasia if crime is serious, if found guilty of serious crime capital punishment is required, populations of prisons would be reduced, cheaper than life in prison and if a killer kills someone then death should be the consequence. The death penalty is an important matter to talk about because no matter where in the world…

argue that white-collar criminals are a different breed of criminals altogether and, therefore, would not benefit for incarceration and would merely overload an already overburdened prison system. With these arguments in place, it appears that the punishment for white-collar criminals should not be the same as that of traditional criminals. This is not to favor a specific type of crime over the other; on the contrary, I believe that both forms of crimes should be punished but in different…

The use of capital punishment is a very touchy subject, as the author’s comment, the emotional suffering involved in such cases interfere with logic, scientific facts and true justice. How can you tell someone that has lost a loved one that the convicted murderer’s life should be spared? Religious beliefs have for centuries guided American’s moral boundaries, for instance the eye for an eye statement has been a constant staple in the justice arena. To further add, the author’s also point out the…

beliefs and custom of a group of people, begins to shape a person from the second that they are born on to the rest of their life. Customs can affect how a child is raised, which in turn affects their thoughts and actions. In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky the main character, Raskolnikov, is pushed to commit a murder due to his beliefs on power and class. The strict class and power based Russian society directly affected Raskolnikov’s psychological and moral traits. The…

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has been practiced and used as early as the eighteenth century as evidence indicates (Issitt and Newton). This process is carried out only by government authority with convicted criminals. Although many other countries around the world completely eradicated the idea of capital punishment, the United States, still to this day, uses this way of punishment for executing convicted criminals. All over the world, there are ongoing debates pertaining…

Alternatives to Capital Punishment One of the larger topics of debate in the United States has consistently been the death penalty. The debate generally is on whether or not the death penalty should be used and or if the practice of executing criminals is being done in a relatively safe and effective way. The main reasons behind the support of the death penalty generally are a sense of justice to the families of the victim and or a sense of security for society from any potential danger. Many…

Capital Punishment What would happen if capital punishment were illegal? There are 3,002 death row inmates in the United States as of April 25, 2015 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_death_row_inmates). The United States is highly ranked when it comes to executing prisoners. It is a highly debated issue in America for various reasons, but capital punishment is unnecessary, unproductive and should be terminated. It is more beneficial to keep death row prisoners in prison…