The United States Constitution allows for some form of capital Punishment. Under the eighth Amendment no person shall and ever will be deprived of life without due process of the law. Over the past few centuries the words cruel and unusual punishment have changed. When legislators created the Eighth Amendment‚ they did this for no criminal to be treated as wrong as they treated their victim. The United States Constitution allows us to interpret that a man can be executed‚ but in the most humane possible
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"The story of a sick‚ confused 84 year old‚ who died in custody following detention at Harmondsworth‚ highlights the cruelty of our inhumane immegration system" -Cole Moreton. Alois Dvorzac had taken a plane from Canada to Gatwick to visit his daughter in Slovenia‚ his birth country in January of 2013. Upon arrival he could not provide officials with her married name‚ phone number or address‚ which he was planning on obtaining form a friend in Austria on his train ride to Slovenia. That was
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Throughout the years‚ our justice system has become less focused on giving criminals a just punishment and more focused on the fame and publicity that a large scale crime can allow. With every big criminal case‚ there are people rushing to read the headlines and learn everything there is about the criminal: their past‚ their living situation‚ their family‚ their mental state. We become so focused on the criminal that we often times overlook the crime itself. Headlines focus more on the people who
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Jamie Heyes is a good kid who was forced to either let his teammate die or to take action in a situation in the heat of the moment‚ and what all of us are here to bring to light is weather he wanted to kill Valdez. I can tell you for a fact not a material one that Jamie had no intent to kill‚ and the evidence supports this. The prosecution cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that any of its points are indisputable or differing experiences What the prosecution is trying to paint for you is that
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Even though Alcatraz started as a military base to protect the lower San Francisco area‚ In 1934 the army had transferred it over to the civilian bureau of prisons (BOP). At the time Alcatraz was meant to be utilized as the first maximum-security‚ minimum-privilege prison in America (www.alcatrazcruises.com). From 1934 to 1963 Alcatraz Island housed some of America’s worst criminals‚ from just general trouble makers to the most notorious offenders. For the men sent to the rock‚ it was the end of
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Everyone has their views and opinions on the death penalty. They are either for it or against it‚ but what does that really mean? Sixty-three percent of the population of America are for it because a human being killed another human and they think that it is only fair that the defendant also dies. Then the other thirty-seven percent are against it either because it may have been a loved one that had killed someone and they do not want to see their loved one be killed or they think that killing the
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The country in a group of felon’s hands The fate of our country in a felon’s hands is not a scenario anyone would like to think about. These convicts have already proven themselves to not have the rationality of what people would say a normal person has. This entire group of criminals could be considered insane. Someone could argue that these people have the opposite of good morals. Convicted felons should not be able to vote because they have already proven that they are unsuitable to vote. Felons
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In this case‚ William Furman committed a robbery of a private home. The resident of the home awoke to find Furman in his house. Furman tried to escape and while doing so‚ he tripped and fired his gun accidently‚ which killed the victim. He was taken to trial and found guilty of murder. Because the shooting occurred during the commission of a felony‚ Furman was eligible for the death penalty according to the felony murder rule. The rule of felony murder states that if an offender kills‚ with or without
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The debate on the pros and cons of the death penalty has gone on for decades. There are some people who oppose the death penalty because they fell it is a system that is so flawed that it serves no purpose. For instance‚ those against the death penalty believe that this sentence has the potential for an error because it is possible that the wrong person can be executed. Unfortunately‚ there is no way for those who decide who is guilty to always be 100 percent accurate. Another stance that those
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As a college student who doesn’t have a felony on their record and is not familiar with the climax of the justices’ system and voting laws I have taken it upon myself to do the research on the topic. In doing so I have come to the conclusion that felons should be allowed to vote and their vote could and would have made major differences in past elections. Estimated about 5.85 million people in the United States could not vote due to a felony conviction an increase from the 2004 total of 5.26 million
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