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Three Strikes Law Twenty Five Years
1,208 wordsCruel and Unusual Punishment is a fundamental right given to us by the United States (U. S. ) Constitution. The 8 th amendment states, Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Last year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative. Proposition 184, also known as the three strikes and you " re out law, was passed on November 9, 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders, upon committing their third fel...
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King Creon Choices In The Play Antigone
977 wordsPeople of power such as kings are often forced to chose between family and law. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, King Creon has to make such a decision. He issues the edict to outlaw the burial of his traitor nephew, Poleneices. In reaction, his niece Antigone disobeys the law and bury's her brother out of loyalty to her family. Creon is now faced with the decision to uphold the law or pardon his family. Despite Creon's right decision to uphold the law, his family perishes at their own hand. C...
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Internet Service Provider Child Pornography
1,535 wordsI am Nancy Cohen, wife of Ivan Cohen, who was charged and convicted of possession and distribution of Child Pornography. Last week, Radio, TV and the newspapers stated the court of Appeal decision to uphold the conviction, but, to reduce the sentence from 14 months in jail, to 14 months of house arrest. After 4 years of silence, I, my husband and our children want our side of the story told. This wont change what has happened, but, as a family, we want the community to know the facts that were n...
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Equal Protection And Supreme Court Cases
1,200 words... of Brown by using precedents which, according to Strauss, the Equal Protection Clause prohibits only explicit classifications... facially neutral actions that are in fact not based on race (Glennon. 486). The institutional role of the Court in this case is that the Court adheres to its policy that strict scrutiny will only be used in cases where discrimination is evident in a statute. Concerning the slippery slope that the Court in cautious about, by favoring a minority who did not gain an a...
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Issues Of Capital Punishment And The Death Penalty
979 wordsTwenty-six years ago, on July 2, 1976, the U. S. Supreme Court voted 7 - 2 in Gregg v. Georgia to reinstate the death penalty after a brief official break. Implicit in the Gregg decision was the optimistic belief that the many problems identified by a previous Supreme Court decision, Furman v. Georgia, could be fixed. In 1972, the Furman Court had struck down hundreds of state laws that the justices deemed illogical. But the majority in Gregg argued that objective standards would minimize impuls...
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Plea Bargaining System Plea Bargaining Defendant
1,074 wordsThe plea bargain was a tool rarely used before the 19 th century in prosecution. "In America, it can be traced almost to the very emergence of public prosecution, although not exclusive to the U. S. , developed earlier and more broadly here than most places. " Plea-bargaining was limited because judges controlled most sentencing. Judges did not appreciate the workload relief until personal injury cases skyrocketed during the industrial era. A plea bargain can be defined as, "a negotiation betwee...
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Trial By Jury Juvenile Offenders
1,009 wordsGANGS AND JUVENILES Gang violence is most pervasive in large cities like Los Angeles or Chicago. But now, smaller towns have been pinpointed as having several gang-related activities such as Lee, Massachusetts. The reason for this is that gangs are forced to seek other territories where there is little pressure from authorities. (Thou). The term inner-city gang strikes fear in the minds of most middle class Americans. Gangs to them are by definition lawless and deviant, perpetrators of often bru...
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Violent Crime Crime Victims
342 wordsVictimology Theory Victimology theory "explains the universal rejection of victims. There appears to be resistance to believing the innocence of victims. People feel helpless and vulnerable when exposed to senseless violence and need to find rational explanations for the incident. Blaming the victim helps by providing an explanation. People also have an irrational fear of contamination by the victim. Rejection of the victim becomes a defensive maneuver. " (Moss, 1991, cited in Sideleau, 1992). T...
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Years In Prison Chesney Lind
1,999 wordsFemale Criminals Western domination of women and nature was conceptually linked into the processes of making them inferior and had mutually reinforced each other. For example, Merchant (op. cit. p. 165) argues that from its beginning the discourse of modern science in the West was informed by imagery that portrayed nature as female. Given womens status this both aided and made erotic the domination of nature for men of science. Woman was interconnected with the exploration of nature having love ...
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Sentenced To Death Death Penalty
1,342 wordsCurrently, the United States is the only western democracy that still has capital punishment on the books. Even South Africa has eliminated it the US is left with such company as Libya, Iran, and Iraq. Only America remains committed to this brutal and archaic form of punishment. Only America, the foothold of freedom and democracy, continues this dehumanizing process. Only America cannot face the facts and remove this evil from its society. Do not let the death lobby deceive youth goal of capital...
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Eye For An Eye Sentenced To Death
1,043 wordsThe problem with capital punishment Dead Man Walking! This sound rings through each and every death row inmate a thousand times a day; But should it? Capital punishment is one of the most controversial topics among Americans today. Since every person has there own opinion on this topic, either for or against, the question always raised is Is it morally right. The number of problems with the death penalty are enormous, ranging from innocence to racism, and these problems will never be resolved un...
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Imposing The Death Penalty Mental Capacity
1,247 wordsThere are five basic reasons that society uses when imposing punishment that Ive been able to conclude from my readings. I will discuss these societal concepts and show that the death penalty does not serve to further them. As a result William Smith should not be subject to the death penalty and in fact the same should be abolished from our system of punishment. Deterrence Deterrence is basically defined as the punishment should fit the crime. Under this concept, the individual committing the cr...
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U S Supreme Court Capital Punishment
762 wordsCapital punishment has been in effect since the 1600 s. However, in 1972 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, which was unconstitutional according to the Eighth amendment. It was public opinion that the current methods of execution, hanging, electrocution, and facing a firing squad, were too slow and painful upon the person to be executed. The U. S. Supreme Court reversed this decision when a " cleaner" way to bring about death was foun...
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State Supreme Court Inmates On Death Row
1,386 wordsCapital Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Capital punishment is the legal infliction the death penalty. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. (Bedau 1) Capital punishment is a controversial way of dealing with violent criminals. The main alternative to the death penalty is life in prison. Capital punishment has been around for thousands of years as a means of eradicating criminals. A giant debate started between supporters and opposers of execution, over the morality a...
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U S Supreme Court Death Penalty
991 wordsCapital punishment has been in effect since the 1600 s (Cole 451). However, in 1972 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, which was unconstitutional according to the Eighth amendment. It was public opinion that the current methods of execution, hanging, electrocution, and facing a firing squad, were too slow and painful upon the person to be executed (Cole 451). The U. S. Supreme Court reversed this decision when a cleaner way to bring about death...
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Cruel And Unusual Sentenced To Death
756 wordsCruel and Unusual? The Eight Amendment of the United States says, Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The anti-federalists who wrote this amendment did not have the death penalty in mind. Executing and individual for a crime committed was a widely excepted practice. But now, over 200 years later most of the western world has abolished the death penalty the United States has not. In 1972, when the United States Supreme Co...
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Guilty By Reason State To State
1,208 wordsThis paper will fallow the process of a capital trial from arrest to execution. It will discus the aspects of federal and state law, trial, appeal, and executions. It will go into further detail on arraignment and the trail details of defense and sentencing. The federal law on capital punishment begins with the constitution, which states in the eighth amendment of the bill of rights that, no person shall be subject to cruel or unusual punishment. Despite this and for the reason that it is the go...
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Lear And Cordelia Act 5 Scene
1,314 wordsKing Lear is a tragedy unlike any other written by William Shakespeare. It focuses on the psychological downfall of a powerful King. It proves that as long as a nation has a king on the throne all is well, but as soon as a king steps off the throne nothing but chaos transpires. The downfall of the king results in the downfall of the kingdom. More importantly, it focuses on the relationship between parent and child. This is proven in two plots with the most important being the relationship betwee...
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Prison Camp Manual Labor
788 wordsFyodor Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on Nov. 11, 1825. As his father was a former military surgeon, Dostoyevsky grew up in the noble class. He entered the military engineering school at St. Petersburg at age 16. Shortly after graduating, he resigned his commission and devoted all his time to writing. However, he soon became caught up in the movement for political and social reform during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I. He began to participat...
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Capital Punishment Cases Court Appointed Attorneys
892 wordsPunishable by Death? A crime that is apparently so heinous that the only conceivable punishment is death. The use of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is as heinous as the crimes that put people on death row. The death penalty is believed to be one rooted in racism and it has continued on in that tradition. The poor are at a disadvantage when it comes to being tried for the death penalty. Lastly the sentencing of the death penalty is not always given with just cause. The penalty of death...
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