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    Carl Albert State College The Death Penalty Just or Unjust Phil 3203 April 14‚ 2014 The Death Penalty Just or Unjust? The Death Penalty Just or Unjust The death penalty is the punishment of execution‚ administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Capital crimes may include first degree murder (premeditated)‚ murder with special circumstances (such as intentional‚ multiple‚ involved with another crime‚ with guns‚ of a police officer‚ or a repeat offense)

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    The Death Penalty Is the death penalty just or unjust? It has been argued that capitol punishment is imposed merely to gratify a desire for revenge. Whether or not a punishment is legal depends upon whether or not it serves a valid goal or purpose of a policy. The death penalty is usually defended on two grounds; is useful and that is just . Is capitol punishment moral or immoral? Is the death penalty moral? Capitol punishment is imposed to spare future victims of murder by carrying out the

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    I personally think that the death penalty is unjust. Murder is murder no matter who is doing it. So if someone kills someone‚ does that give the judicial system the right to kill someone? In my opinion no‚ because all in all‚ it is still down right murder. I think that that life in prison is torture enough especially when you have people who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. Does the legal system have authorization to take innocent lives? Being that this scale is unbalanced‚ I believe that

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    The death penalty has decreased in the amount of times they do it due to the extremely difficult process to be condemned and executed by the state. So far there have been a total of seven people this year. Since 1976 they have used five ways‚ hanging ”3”‚ firing squad ”3”‚ lethal injection”1274”‚ Electrocution”158”‚ and the gas chamber “11”‚ to end the criminal’s life. (Facts about the Death Penalty). The average cost for the death penalty is 1.9 million to 3 million. The use of the death penalty

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    The Just and Fairness of the Death Penalty Lori Pope PHI 103 Daniel Haynes November 9‚ 2011 Is the death penalty just and applied fairly? One of the great debates of our time is the legality and use of the death penalty. The death penalty is something that many people do not have a clear decision on. Some insist that the death penalty acts to deter a capital crime‚ while others feel that it has not effect whether a capital crime is still committed. My personal look at the death penalty

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    The Death Penalty: Just or Fairly? Edmond Dowling Jr. PHI 103 Instructor Kelly Mink October 10‚ 2011 Is the Death Penalty just and applied fairly? Outline Introduction Capital Punishment is viewed as a political viewpoint that has pro’s and con’s by the American people. Capital punishment is known as the “The Death Penalty” and is identified as the premeditated and planned taking of a human life. The government views this as a response to a crime committed by a legally convicted person

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    Plato Just And Unjust

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    and just and would result in exaltation and praise. How does one know if a society’s actions are moral or not? How does one know if their unjust actions are just? To authentically judge a society one must isolate the just and the unjust. As stated in The Republic by Plato‚ Now‚ if we are to form a real judgment of the life of the just and unjust‚ we must isolate them; there is no other way and how is the isolation to be affected? I answer: Let the unjust man be entirely unjust‚ and the just man entirely

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    Just War Is Unjust

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    (Return to CO.Quaker.org Home Page) 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "Heading" Just and Unjust War2013-07-09T16:58:18#EndEditable 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "body" by Howard ZinnReprinted (with permission of the author) from the book Declarations of Independence‚ (...also found in The Zinn Reader‚ and Howard Zinn on War) I enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was an eager bombardier‚ determined to do everything I could to help defeat fascism. Yet‚ at the end of the war‚ when

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    Just and Unjust Wars

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    not inevitable‚ and show that freedom of choice does not exists for the parties involved. I will present an argument for the inevitability of war after outlining Walzer’s objections to the realist’s point of view on the morality of war. In Just and Unjust Wars‚ Walzer argues against the realist’s view on the morality of war; namely‚ that war is inevitable therefore eliminating freedom of choice. Before delving into the argument‚ it is important that we understand a realist’s belief; Realism‚ as

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    ancient laws such as the Mosaic Law and Roman Justinian Code—were unfair‚ unjust‚ and based on the social classes. Hammurabi’s laws were based on the harsh “eye for eye‚ tooth for tooth” mentality of the ancient era‚ requiring a death penalty for many slight offenses. For example‚ according to the twenty-first law in Hammurabi’s code‚ “if any one breaks a hole into a house (break in to steal)‚ he shall be put to death before that hole and be buried” (citation). In accordance to this law

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