Should Capital Punishment be Re-Introduced? The term ’capital punishment’ is derived from the Latin caput‚ meaning ’head’. It originally referred to death by decapitation‚ but now applies generally to state sanctioned executions. Capital punishment is a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. Capital punishment has‚ in the past‚ been practiced by most societies‚ as a punishment for criminals‚ and political or religious dissidents
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Should Public Exams Be Abolished In Hong Kong? Public examinations play an important role in a student‘s life‚ especially in Hong Kong. Nowadays‚ there is no other ways to promote into university in Hong Kong unless passing the examination. Students have to sit for 2 major public exams including The Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination(HKCEE) and The Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination(HKALE). Should public exams be abolished in Hong Kong? This topic is a hot issue that many
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all different states. This is reality and that process is called the electoral college. The electoral college should be abolished because it does not reflect the common Americans opinion‚ also the process has not worked as there were many unqualified Presidents‚ finally‚ the delegates that elect the President are all very partisan towards their party The electoral college should be abolished simply because it does not reflect a common citizen’s vote‚ in an article by The Huffington Post it is said
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How would you react if you learned that the Presidential candidate you had cast your vote for‚ had actually received more of the popular vote than his competition‚ but was not elected the next President of the United States? Every four years in November over 90 million Americans vote for the presidential candidates‚ then in the middle of December the president and vice president of the United States are actually elected by the votes of only 538 citizens. Wouldn’t you think there was an obvious
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Introduction: Affirmative action in higher education should be abolished. College admissions should be based on what the admissions board is looking for‚ not what the government says should be required. In this paper‚ I will present evidence to support that position. At one time‚ affirmative action was a needed and legitimate policy. Segregation has existed way too much in the past and has left people out of jobs‚ out of certain areas of town‚ and schooling. We needed to make a law that would
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Parole Release Should parole release be abolished? This is one of the most talked about topics in the criminal justice field today. Many people feel it is time to do away with parole‚ while others are fighting to keep it around. There are pros and cons to both sides of the argument‚ all of which are very convincing. One of the strongest arguments against the parole system is the overpopulation problem in most prisons. Between 1986 and 1991‚ prisons have seen a 41% increase in the population of
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Should Capital Punishment be legal in the U.K? A poll taken showed that 60% of citizens in the United Kingdom wanted Capital Punishment re-instated‚ even more people wanted it in cases of murder with Police Officers or children involved. Capital Punishment is the most severe deterrent or retribution in existence and aims to deter future obligates from committing such heinous crimes for which the death penalty would be apportioned. The principal of this being that the ‘future criminal’ will be
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Capital punishment or the death penalty as it is also known refers to the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. The most common forms of capital punishment include electrocution‚ gas‚ firing squads‚ lethal injections and hanging. Australia abolished the death penalty in 1975 and since then‚ there have been many debates about whether it should be re-introduced. Capital punishment is uncivilised‚ represents solely revenge and is commonly a miscarriage of justice. Consequently
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Should Capital punishment be re-imposed? The arguments for and against Capital punishment will be stated with conclusive evidence to suggest that Capital punishment should be re-imposed. Capital offenses are on the rise‚ and our prisons are over populated. Money spent on prisons is much needed in the fight against poverty. I feel that Capital punishment has a very important role in society. It reduces murders drastically as well as overall crime. Capital punishment has in the past been practiced
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Capital punishment still takes place in the twenty-first century. The opinion on how much power the government should have when applying the death penalty punishment varies among different people. Even the religious leaders‚ judges‚ magistrates‚ scholars and lawyers hold different ideas when it comes to the issue of capital punishment. There are those who think that the government should have the authority to determine whether a person who commits a crime deserves to die or to live. Although the
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