Use of capital punishment by nation

In The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo he writes that Lincoln was a dictator who flagrantly violated constitutional freedoms, and violated civil liberties. Lincoln justified his actions by claiming their necessity because of the war, and permitted because of war powers. What those powers were was never clearly defined except in putting down a rebellion. His real motive was to centralize power under his tyrannical government. Lincoln's violations of civil liberties included the suspending…

Opening Remarks: Good morning church! It is on this beautiful morning that I would like to speak to you from a rather different passage. This message stems from the book of Nahum. If you are unfamiliar with this book, it consists of three chapters and is tucked in between Micah and Habakkuk in the Old Testament. The general overview of the book of Nahum is the description of God’s wrath toward Nineveh and how He will destroy it. (Dramatic Pause) Now before you check out on me, do not be dismayed…

itself. Where the modern promises of a rational society with amazing technological advances were consumed for a social collapse as a consequence of a new totalitarian and oppressive system. Meanwhile, the ambition, consumerism, inequality, irresponsible use of the natural resources, and the excessive power of governments and business led society to its own annihilation. Therefore, the initial desire of society to accomplish a utopia was destroyed leaving…

Is Islam and violence like a peanut butter and jelly combination? Do they always get along with each other? The growth of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, who have Muslims as their group members, baffle the non-Islamic people regarding the true nature of Islam. Most analysts argue that the terrorist threat is unquestionably Islamic and is not much a deviation from Muslim tradition, whereas others defend that…

after the Babylonians destroyed her in 586 BCE and exiled her people, leaving behind only the poor. In Lamentations 1:1, someone cries “How lonely sits the city/ that once was full of people!/ How like a widow she has become,/ she was great among the nations!/ She that was a princess among the provinces/ has become a vassal.” (NRSV). In this first verse, the kinetic aspect of Jerusalem is seen with the contrasting imagery of the city before its destruction and afterwards. TWEED In Chapter 1 of…

For many of us, our female role models are our moms, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, and for our nation, its exactly the same. We have countless number of women to thank for everything we have. Things that were once only dreamed of now taken for granted. many of us are lucky to be in the United States, to have the freedom we have, to even have the parents we have. Not only have these women worked hard for the female gender equality but many brave souls have fought for their people as a…

and even physically. Regardless of the system of polity in place, the sole purpose of the government is to serve the governed. To protect the rights of people all around the globe, the Declaration of Human Rights (D.H.R.) was created by the United Nations. The document cites three basic rights that all people are entitled to.These include Article 7 which states that every human has the right to “equality before the law,” Article 5 which condemns “torture and [degrading] treatments of people,”…

practice. An outspoken protestor of the death penalty, John Paul Stevens, a retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, “criticized the death penalty as a ‘wasteful enterprise’” (Sanger, 2016). He states that “continuing to prosecute capital cases [is] "unacceptable," saying the expense of capital trials is ‘particularly outrageous in light of the lack of evidence supporting the death penalty’s purported justifications…Citing the wrongful execution of Carlos Deluna, ‘a man who was unquestionably…

In this event, China lost its political independence as it cannot use its Chinese Law to punish the criminal Europeans in China. For example, as what we discussed in lecture, if a British raped a Chinese girl in China, he will be charged based on British Law and punished in British. The criminals, therefore, may escape from the Chinese punishment that they deserve. As a result, Europeans became dominative group and bold to do anything such as commit crime…

moral issues in today’s society. The argument over the right to bear arms according to the second amendment has been a challenging conflict for many years in America. It has been a contentious concern along with other issues such as abortion and capital punishment (Saenz, 476). There have been numerous senseless gun-related incidents such as the one in Colorado. Incidents…