Extractions: A 10 page paper focusing on the death penalty arguing for the abolishment of capital punishment. It is presumptuous of humans to think they somehow have the right to decide another's fate. Except in the case of self defense their is no ethical reason why humans should kill one another. Case studies are shown as examples. These studies include Karla Faye Tucker, Susie Jaeger, and Dr. Kevorkian. While the majority of the United States population believes in the death penalty it is still an affront to humanity in general and should be abolished. Bibliography follows containing 20 sources. This 5 page paper opposes capital punishment based on a conflict perspective. The argument includes factual information about the incompetence of court appointed attorneys. The point made is that due to social stratification, the criminal justice system is unfair and thus, the death penalty should be abolished. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Capital Punishment death penalty, execution, death row, capital punishment, murderer, heinouscrime. convict, 'Dead Man Walking', pro, con, moratorium, lethal injection. http://eduscapes.com/42explore/capunish.htm
Extractions: Special Note: This site is intended to be educational. However, some of the images and information included in this project may be disturbing, especially for younger learners. While we encourage all to learn, we hope that parents and teachers will be there to help explain events and guide young learners through the complexities behind what they may read and see. Adults should preview sites before providing access to younger children. Easier - Capital punishment is the penalty or sentence of death for committing a crime. Harder - Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, most executions in the United States have resulted from murder convictions. However, the sentence of death has been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, and treason. People disagree about whether capital punishment is moral or if it is effective in discouraging crime. Many oppose the death penalty because they consider it cruel. Critics also believe that there is a risk of executing mistakenly convicted people. Supporters of the death penalty believe that in some instances, people who take another human life deserve to forfeit their own lives. Many supporters also argue that the threat of death discourages crime.
Internet Guide For Contemporary Issues: Capital Punishment prodeath penalty information and resources including legislation, crime victims,scheduled executions, news, and links. The Economics of capital punishment. http://www.gwc.info/library/internet/issues_capitalpun.htm
Extractions: Death Penalty Controversy (Yahoo) This Yahoo site includes news, latest developments, and links to related sites. Bureau of Justice Statistics - Capital Punishment Statistical information and publications about capital punishment in the U.S. Death Penalty Information and Resources From the American Society of Criminology, which officially opposes the death penalty. Its links, however, include pro-death penalty documents, as well as information on wrongful convictions, religious aspects, and cases in selected states. Death Penalty Information Center State-by-state data, history, and issues. Follow the "information topics" link. Amnesty USA: Death Penalty in the USA Amnesty International report documenting how the death penalty in the United States is applied disproportionately on the basis of race and social status. Death Penalty Links This comprehensive site provides 1000+ links to Web pages related to U.S. and international laws, issues, statistics, economics and history of the death penalty.
NewsHour Extra: Timothy McVeigh And Capital Punishment - May 16, 2001 prodeath penalty.com. Classroom activities Curriculums on the death penalty.PBS Frontline The Executioner . Legal punishment or murder? May 16, 2001. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june01/death_penalty.html
Extractions: This 5 page paper opposes capital punishment based on a conflict perspective. The argument includes factual information about the incompetence of court appointed attorneys. The point made is that due to social stratification, the criminal justice system is unfair and thus, the death penalty should be abolished. Bibliography lists 6 sources. In 5 pages, the reader is given an intellectual tool of awareness concerning the issue of capital punishment, which is also referred to as the death penalty. This is accomplished with paradigms attributed to crime and this type of punishment for that crime. The selections include a rich variety of data to support the key conclusion that the author makes, which is that capital punishment is not effective as a deterrent. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Library Newsletter June 2001 Webography Wesley Lowe's pro death penalty web page http//www.geocities.com/Area51/capsule/2608/cp.htmlDiscusses many issues concerning capital punishment such as the http://notes1.morainepark.edu/appsinter/library/libryweb.nsf/338cc1b53c40e613862
Death Penalty | In The Spotlight | May 2000 | TIES Webzine in 1987 to end the use of capital punishment in the technical support for attorneysworking on capital cases, monitor The pro death penalty Website Wesley http://www.tiesweb.org/spot/page_3.htm
Extractions: The Daily Illini Since Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977, 13 death row inmates have been exonerated and 12 have been executed. In response to Illinois' poor record in capital punishment cases, Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on the death penalty in January 2000 and appointed a commission to review the system. A new governor will have the power to either continue or repeal the death penalty moratorium in January 2003 when he or she takes office. Thomas Rudolph, assistant political science professor, said the moratorium "doesn't get rid of the (death penalty) law but places a hold on the execution of the law, which is literally execution." State Sen. Patrick J. O'Malley, R-Palos Park, is the only candidate with definite plans to lift the moratorium if elected governor. "We now have a situation in Illinois where prosecutors are frustrated in seeking the legally prescribed punishment for the most heinous murderers, and judges are frustrated that the sentences they hand down in capital cases are not being carried out," O'Malley said in a statement. Dan Proft, O'Malley spokesman, said the new governor should pardon individuals instead of imposing a moratorium on all cases.
Web-and-Flow WebQuest: Capital Punishment Discuss. prodeath penalty Page pro -death penalty Views John Stuart Mill A'Speech in Favor ' of capital punishment. Anti-death penalty Consultant. http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/kbradfor/folder2/webquest.htm
Extractions: by Kenneth Bradford Introduction Question Background Info ... Teacher's Guide What's the truth and who says so? In the old days (say just before you were born), people could read books, study, and feel pretty sure they knew what was going on. Then things started changing. We realized everyone had an opinion and if we listened, we could learn something. We also found that a lot of topics weren't separate, but connected to each other. So thinking in little boxes didn't work so well. Then along came the Web. Ah-oh... Because anyone can publish a Web page and passionate people tend to want to get their ideas out there, almost any interest, concern or issue has its online community. As a group you're going to explore the topic of Capital Punishment(Death Penalty). Each member of your team will become an expert in one part of the topic. Then you'll have to come back together to answer a question that gets to the heart of 'what's the truth and who says so?' We want you to do a good job, so why not read the evaluation rubric for this WebQuest? *** Clarence Thomas, one of nine United States Supreme Court Justices, needs your help! Next Monday the Supreme Court is voting on the Death Penalty. Currently the justices are split 4 to 4 and Clarence Thomas will cast the final vote. He is calling upon you to research, and present him with an in-depth review of the Death Penalty in the form of an Judicial Summary. What you find out will influence his vote!!!!
Ask Jeeves: Search Results For "Capital Punishment" Information (from http//www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim) Anticapital punishment Resourcesfrom sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html 4. pro-death penalty.com A http://webster.directhit.com/webster/search.aspx?qry=Capital Punishment
COURTTV.COM - TOP NEWS death row since the state revived capital punishment in 1995. that led to her executiondeath penalty Argument The experts discuss DNA and the pro and con http://www.courttv.com/news/death_penalty/
WebQuest This pro capital punishment document cites biblical quotations and New Testamentreferences in support of the death penalty. This document covers moral issues. http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ahudson/WebQuest.html
Extractions: WEBQUEST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS IT EVER JUSTIFIED? O ur society has become increasingly violent. Gone are the days where you can leave your doors open and your cars unlocked. Family values and morals are declining. Drug abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, and gangs are on the rise. Guns are almost as easy to get as candy. Children are not safe even at school. Society seems obsessed with sex and violence is glorified in music and movies. It seems some members of society place little value on human life. With the crime rate increasing, crimes becoming more heinous , and society's killers are becoming younger and younger, the United states which once outlawed capital punishment has brought it back. Some argue that it is justified. What do you say? The Task Using the suggested resources, you will have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the methods used in capital punishment types of crimes committed by people given the death penalty, and arguments for and against capital punishment. Visit the suggested Internet sites and read accounts of people and events. Complete the following assignments: Write a 2-3 page letter to the governor defending your position on capital punishment.
Why I Was Right About Capital Punishment In Support of the death penalty , support for the death penalty has grown the undecidedvotes said they were leaning toward a procapital punishment stance if http://home.echo-on.net/~smithda/whyiwasright.html
Extractions: Why I Was Right About Capital Punishment I couldn't resist. The Julius Caesar of this age, by the way, supports the return of the death penalty. He cannot understand why criminals and murderers, of no use to the state, are kept alive and happy - Paul Bernardo for example - all at taxpayers' expense. Traitors are given public money to further their causes. Julius asks: Would any of this be allowed in the Great Republic of the Roman Empire? Not likely. Capital Punishment deters murder, and is just retribution. Let us now focus on Canada. The last two people to be executed in Canada were Arthur Lucas and Ron Turpin. They were executed on December 11, 1962. These executions in Canada were carried out by hanging. The death penalty was abolished in Canada in 1976 after a debate that lasted 98 hours. The death penalty was only beaten by 6 votes. If we look back to 1976, the year the death penalty was abolished in Canada, threats of death were being made to Members of Parliament and their immediate families from pro death penalty advocates. Most members of parliament voted according to their own personal feelings, rather than the views of Canadians. The same was the case in British Colombia, where accepting the death penalty, if it was reinstated in 1987 by the federal government, was discussed. The MPs were split: 17 out of 29 were for the death penalty. This showed that even the majority of the MPs were in favour of the death penalty in B.C. Support for the death penalty in British Columbia at the time was almost 70%, but the MPs felt that it was up to them to vote according to what they felt was right, not to what a majority of Canadians wanted.
Extractions: A 10 page paper focusing on the death penalty arguing for the abolishment of capital punishment. It is presumptuous of humans to think they somehow have the right to decide another's fate. Except in the case of self defense their is no ethical reason why humans should kill one another. Case studies are shown as examples. These studies include Karla Faye Tucker, Susie Jaeger, and Dr. Kevorkian. While the majority of the United States population believes in the death penalty it is still an affront to humanity in general and should be abolished. Bibliography follows containing 20 sources. This 5 page paper opposes capital punishment based on a conflict perspective. The argument includes factual information about the incompetence of court appointed attorneys. The point made is that due to social stratification, the criminal justice system is unfair and thus, the death penalty should be abolished. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Research Reports On Argumentative / Pro-Con Essays - 010-003 Papers On Argumentative / proCon Essays Page 4 of 49. A 10 page paper focusing onthe death penalty arguing for the abolishment of capital punishment. http://www.a1reports.net/categories/010-003.html
Extractions: A 10 page paper focusing on the death penalty arguing for the abolishment of capital punishment. It is presumptuous of humans to think they somehow have the right to decide another's fate. Except in the case of self defense their is no ethical reason why humans should kill one another. Case studies are shown as examples. These studies include Karla Faye Tucker, Susie Jaeger, and Dr. Kevorkian. While the majority of the United States population believes in the death penalty it is still an affront to humanity in general and should be abolished. Bibliography follows containing 20 sources. This 5 page paper opposes capital punishment based on a conflict perspective. The argument includes factual information about the incompetence of court appointed attorneys. The point made is that due to social stratification, the criminal justice system is unfair and thus, the death penalty should be abolished. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Capital Punishment: Life Or Death? Students present a series of arguments for and against the death penalty.Category Kids and Teens School Time Social Studies Law http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/spring/cap/group1.htm
Extractions: This is Tonya's E306 class. We are here to present our sides of the capital punishment issue. From left to right we are Jon, Frankie, Dustin, Jessica, Jana, Leslie, Edward, Abel. Feel free to click on our face to see some personal thoughts and feels toward capital punishment. Just for fun, EMail one of us with your opinion: FOR or AGAINST. Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed.The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. Once a jury has convicted a criminal offense they go to the second part of the trial, the punishment phase. If the jury recommends the death penalty and the judge agrees then the criminal will face some form of execution, lethal injection is the most common form used today. There was a period from 1972 to 1976 that capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Their reason for this decision was that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. The decision was reversed when new methods of execution were introduced. Capital punishment is a difficult issue and there are as many different opinions as there are people. In our project, both sides have been presented and argued with focus on several topics as listed below. This page was constructed to show the different opinions held by the members of our group. There is plenty of useful information within our work. We hope you find it helpful and informative.
Search Supreme Court Syllabi (synopses) A list of Supreme Court cases concerning the death penalty, from Cornell University's law school. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/fx?DB=SupctSyllabi&P=capital OR death AN
Open Hand Capital Punishment Page Facts, arguments and essays against the death penalty. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spragge/capital.html
Extractions: Capital Punishment: Facts and Arguments This page aims to discuss capital punishment as rationally as possible. I propose to present information which may help people make up their minds about whether or not capital punishment keeps them safe, makes economic sense, or provides a satisfactory "closure" for the victims of homicide. How, if at all, this information affects your response, either emotional or political, to capital punishment remains entirely up to you. The questions of fact concerning capital punishment fall into three general areas: does capital punishment save money , freeing social resources for better purposes than warehousing and feeding murders, or does it actually cost more, consuming resources that could go into preventing crime? Does capital punishment strike fear into offenders, saving innocent lives by deterring would-be killers? And, finally, the courts make mistakes; what does capital punishment mean to an innocent person wrongly accused These questions fit together to define a complex problem. If experience showed capital punishment saved lives by deterring offenders, the cost would not matter; a certainty that capital punishment would save innocent lives might even make the risk of wrongful convictions acceptable. If no risk at all existed of an error by the courts, the question of whether capital punishment saves innocent lives by deterring murder might matter less. And we cannot limit the cost of capital punishment simply to money, since society has limited resources, and can only spend so much on criminal justice. A society that spends money on executions can't spend that money on police officers, courts, or jails; to say nothing of schools, vocational programs, or other measures aimed at preventing crime.
Focus On The Death Penalty Educational site intended to give as full a picture as possible of the complex issues surrounding capital punishment and its application. death penalty history, statistics, state death rows, issues under debate, and the international context. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/index.html
Extractions: 30 Mar 2000 : The Death Row page has been updated with information from more state prison death rows. 2 Mar 2000 The International Context page has been completely updated. Other pages have been reformatted, and are in the process of being updated. A number of attempts at introducing capital punishment to the Alaska criminal justice system have occurred in recent years. The purpose of this site is to provide Alaska citizens and other members of the public with a source of information on the death penalty so that they can make informed decisions on this important issue. (See for historical information and updates on the progress of the death penalty debate in Alaska.) We hope that others will also find the site useful.
