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    I am writing to you regarding your article about the execution of Robert Harris who murdered two young guys for no reason. In my opinion, Harris deserved to die because he had very aggressive behaviour. Murdering people is not a good thing and he had to die. He didn’t deserve even the life imprisonment because it is very expensive to keep him alive. I am shocked at your anti-death penalty attitude, demonstrated in your article ‘I see a killer die’. Do you think that Baker family would be…

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    Stojcevski Case Study

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    32-year-old David Stojcevski was put under suicide watch for erratic behavior. Negligence of prison guards in a high observation unit caused him to die in custody, under their ‘watchful’ eye. David had been fined $772 for careless driving. He was financially unable to pay the fines, so instead he was sentenced to spend 30 days in Macomb County Jail (Michigan). His family did not expect that to become a life sentence. The video procured via freedom of information requests (FOIA) by Kevin Dietz,…

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    Behind closed door deals, bribes, scandal, trades, mass corporations, sounds like the next top crime show, but this is no show. This is the Oil Reserves Scandal also known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Teapot Dome Scandal took place in the early 1920s. It was the secret leasing of federal oils by the Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall. After President Harding switched the oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of Interior in 1921, Albert Fall secretly gave Harry F. Sinclair from…

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    Allie Durbin AP Language and Composition Mrs. Smith August 18, 2016 The Grapes of Wrath Comparison Ethics vs Laws "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"(Harriet Tubman). Harriet Tubman was known for breaking the law for all the right reasons, simply to save the lives of the innocent. In the novels The Adventures of Huck Finn written by Mark Twain, and The Grapes of Wrath written by…

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    The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, July of 1776, released by the Second Continental Congress.People fought and killed to gain their Independence from Great makes everyone in peace and stop arguing and fighting each other theirs a few things Is.The Mock Trials , The Pursuit of Happiness , and All Men are created equal If the Declaration of Independence was written today, I would change “All Men are created equal " to " All Race created equal ". My reason why is…

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    Weldon Angelo was a 22 year old music producer, whose music career was bringing him a lot of nationwide recognition. He was the organizer of the Utah-based rap mark, Extravagant Record. While at Extravagant Record he composed and created tunes with well- known artist. Angelo sold weed to a childhood friend who ended up being a police source. Today, Angelo sits in government jail 10 years into a 55 year sentence. Since the required sentence was excessively brutal the sentencing judge called…

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    Hammurabi Era

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    It is well known worldwide and in our country of the United States of America that if a civilian commits an act of crime, there will be a consequence to pay. The type of crime that a civilian commit will determine the type of consequence the civilian will have to pay. Most of the consequences here in the United States are tolerable, either by being punished in prison, pay a fine, or the worst one being the death penalty. Now if we take it back to the Babylon King Hammurabi era, they perceived…

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    Serving Life Documentary

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    I really enjoyed watching this documentary in class. A few years ago I watched a documentary Oprah produced called Serving Life. The story followed prisoners inside Louisiana’s maximum-security prison Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. In the prison they have a hospice program where inmates get to take care of other dying inmates. The movie is moving and shows the personalities and human side of the men serving their time. Much like the documentary I just mentioned, I…

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    A convicted felon is a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. So the United States have restrictions for convicted felons to vote. But it is up to your state which restrictions they want to put on convicted felons. So there are five things that your state can do for convicted felons to vote. One is that your state can pick that some felons may vote depending on the state, crime committed, time elapsed since…

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    Do batman have to kill the joker? For many of us think that joker have to be killed and for others not. According to “should batman kill the joker?” article that written by Mark White a professor in several majors in Collage of Staten Island of the city University of New York and Robert Arp a specialist in biomedical ethics and philosophy, mention a several point about this topic in The Dark Knight of the Soul (2008). The main idea of the article is to figure our how the pop culture helps us in…

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