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    punishment will get innocent people to get killed because of the loop hole and flaws in the current law system. Thus‚ capital punishment is a serious attempt to deal to the criminal and without truly discovering the case will lead the innocent to get killed. Other than that‚ is that the law system used by the court are easily manipulate by lawyer. This create an opportunity for those criminal who are able to hire a more quality lawyer to fight of the case and put the blame to another innocent person‚ thus

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    Penalty”). As it is surrounded by controversy‚ many citizens debate if the death penalty should be legal in the United States. The death penalty should be illegal in all 50 states because: it is unconstitutional; criminals get special treatment; and innocent people

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    frustration and the desperation of the situation he was in. This television show is a reality for the many innocent people that have been put on death row. Since 1993 there have been 138 defendants exonerated from their death sentence. The number of innocent people put to death is probably higher. Supporters of the death penalty say that the benefits of the death penalty outweigh the risk of executing innocent people. This is not true because the risks are too high‚ and the benefits too small. This high risk

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    The death penalty puts innocent people’s lives at risk and no matter how developed a justice system is‚ it will inevitably remain susceptible to human failure. Many people are under the assumption that by abolishing the death penalty America would save money; however‚ this is untrue. America is actually losing millions with the death penalty. It costs about $1.26 million for cases where the death penalty is sought. It costs $740‚000 for cases without the death penalty. Maintaining each death row

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    The tactical definition of terrorism in Coady’s essay is the organized use of violence to target non-combatants for political purposes. Non-combatants are any person’s that do not directly coherence with the agents of aggression. The just war tradition tells us the conditions under which it can be right to resort to war (jus ad bellum) and to guide us in the permissible methods by which we should wage a legitimate war (jus in bello). Given the just war tradition and the tactical definition of terrorism

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    character Holden in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden’s dilemma is that he wants things to stay the way they are forever and also save the innocent people around him; he realized that it’s not possible. Near the end of the novel‚ Holden progresses in his resolutions‚ for all his earlier dilemmas in the story with people‚ mostly the innocent people. He resolves it by being the "catcher in the rye". He says‚ "…I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye

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    Shakespeare utilizes children to demonstrate the wickedness and fruitlessness of Macbeth’s reign as king. Macduff’s murdered children illustrate the miniscule value that Macbeth places on human life – even a child. The child‚ Fleance symbolizes that the innocent will ultimately reign after Macbeth’s untimely demise. The apparition of a bloody child symbolizes Macbeth’s killer‚ Macduff‚ who “from his mother’s womb/ [was] Untimely ripp’d (5.8.15-16).” The children in Macbeth exemplify that good will always

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    erupts and there is no longer peace. When something goes wrong people tend to put the blame on anyone or anything besides themselves. In the crucible the blame is put on innocent women and this created mass hysteria and paranoia in the village. Kristallnacht was a night of violence that created mass hysteria and fear among the innocent Jews‚ just as Abigail did in The Crucible. In Germany the economy was not going well and they needed somebody to blame. The chose group to get the blame were the Jews

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    in the texts. Through Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ we explore the power of the innocent and the importance of discovery in a prejudice community. When we explore Son of Mine‚ we can uncover the hardships of Indigenous Australians in the past through alienation. Texts have the capacity to challenge individuals pre-conceived ideas around prejudice‚ discrimination and racism in the hope to promote change. The innocent can provide insight and perspective about societies biased and prejudice opinions

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    example‚ that a friend of yours wonders whether or not it would be ethical to intentionally torture and execute innocent people in order to curb the crime rate. And suppose that you want to convince your friend that she’s wrong‚ so you take her to a rule utilitarian for some ethical counseling. “Would it be morally right or morally wrong to intentionally torture and execute innocent people in order to curb the crime rate?” you ask the rule utilitarian. “Well…” says the rule utilitarian‚ “let’s

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