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    -abortion vs capital punishment -what they both are -abortion is killing a baby before it is born -capital punishment is killing a murderer for his crime -lately we see more people being for abortion‚ and less for capital punishment -ghandi quote and about hinduism Thus says the Lord God… “Will you profane Me…killing people who should not die‚ and keeping people alive who should not live…?” –Ezekiel 13: 18-19 -Rape -Abortion is one of the only ways to get rid of an unwanted child. (Rape)

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    corporal or capital punishment to deal with criminals. I associated corporal or capital punishment torture‚ serious bodily harm or death. Explaining the history of corporal and capital punishments well help a reader get a better understanding of the issues surrounding those types of punishment. Instead of killing a person or torturing them I believe banishment to be a more humane way to punish someone. Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans to various civilizations in the world use corporal punishment and

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    The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense by Ernest Van Den Haag In The Ultimate Punishment‚ Van Den Haag talks about the death penalty in the United States and takes the stance that it is morally justifiable and sometimes needs to be a punishment that is used to gain retribution. He states‚ “It ends the existence of those punished‚ instead of temporarily imprisoning them.” A murderer has taken away the lives of other people‚ as well as punishing the family members indirectly causing them pain. Therefore

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    The Death Penalty: An Unjustified “Punishment” The death penalty is a capital punishment given to those who have committed the worst of worst crimes. Some individuals believe that the death penalty is like an eye for an eye; if one kills they should be killed. However‚ others look at the bigger picture‚ which is how we are supposed to decrease the amount of people who commit crimes like murder‚ if the only punishment we have to offer is to kill them. Seems a bit hypocritical. There have a

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    September 20‚ 2013 Informal text-based essay Should capital punishment be abolished? Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. A person being punished in this manner is a death sentence‚ while the actual process of killing the person is an execution. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis‚ literally "regarding

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    present methods of the death penalty. Capital punishment has been used in America for a long time‚ and has always presented conflicts. There are many groups that protest capital punishment‚ and there are many groups that are for it. The controversies it presents have to do with the cost‚ if it is humane‚ or if it is moral. With all of these problems taken into consideration‚ it is clear to anyone that capital punishment is the wrong choice. Capital punishment has proven to neither deter criminals

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    | The Politics of Punishment | Media Framing and the Death Penalty in Crimes Against Dalits | | Sabrina Buckwalter | | | When Ramdas Athavale‚ Republican Party of India (Athavale)‚ announced that the death penalty verdict in the Khairlanji ruling (an infamous case of the rape and murder of a dalit family in 2006) was the first time such a sentence had been given in a caste crime‚ it was echoed by other activists‚ repeated by journalists and hailed as the coming of a new era in

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    Running head: PUNISHMENT OR REHABILITATION? Punishment or Rehabilitation? Tanisha Denson-Hodge University of Phoenix - Online Survey of Justice and Security CJA 500 Mark McCoy‚ Ed. D Nov 18‚ 2006 Abstract The debate between punishment and rehabilitation for criminal offenders has been an ongoing issue for many years. What is the true focus of our criminal justice system today? Some argue that it is to punish those that choose to disobey the laws of the land and indulge in criminal

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    known as the founder of the classical school of criminology‚ the first organized theory of crime causation linked to appropriate punishments. According to (Seiter‚ 2011) Beccaria suggested that the purpose of punishment is utility or the prevention of crime. According to (Seiter‚ 2011) Jeremy Bentham is the creator of the hedonistic calculus suggesting that punishments outweigh the pleasure criminals get from committing crime. According to (Seiter‚ 2011) another way to remove offenders from society

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