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    Why the death penalty is a good thing Picture this‚ a murderer has been caught by the police‚ someone who has killed another human being for self benefit. Should they get the death penalty‚ or be put in prison for the rest of their life? Do we really need the death penalty and is it good‚ or should we pitch it and use life in prison for murders and other inhumane crimes? These questions are being more and more asked throughout America every day‚ what’s the answer? The simple answer is yes‚

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    Women are rarely placed onto death row. There may be many different reasons for this. Statistics show that there are only 51 women on death row currently and this constitutes to 1.5% of the total death row population (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org). The reason for this is women may be looked at very differently from men. They are looked at as mothers and that their children need them. They are looked at as homemakers and are thought of as having to take care of the home. They are looked at as the “weaker

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    going to be a harsh world. A just society requires the death penalty for the taking of a life. With that being said‚ my stand is to legalize the death penalty in attempt to decrease and or prevent heinous crimes‚ to decrease the costs of housing inmates with long sentences‚ and execution also provides a sense of closure for the families of victims of violent crimes. Don’t you think these depraved people need to be punished somehow? The death penalty attempts

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    The death penalty is the only punishment for a crime that is permanent and cannot be undone once the chemicals flow down the needle into the flesh the deed is done it doesn’t matter anymore if the person did the crime or not because that person is dead. Now saying that you may notice that I said person twice the death penalty kills human life. Taking a human life is wrong‚ but let us look at some other reasons why the death penalty is immoral. In this analysis for the sake of argument only first

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    361 individuals have since gotten the death penalty There is a lot of arguing about this topic and people can´t get to a solution‚ this works out for everybody. There are people for keeping the death penalty for juveniles offenders and then there are those against as well. A common argument of people‚ who are against the death penalty of juveniles offenders is the difficulty of setting a border. They fear‚ that juveniles offenders could get the death penalty depending on the mood of the judges.

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    unforgiveable and inhumane crime. The death penalty was removed from Great Britain in 1964-1965‚ however some countries‚ for example; China‚ Iran‚ North Korea and some states in the USA‚ still practice the use of the death penalty. Acts such as; genocide and general murders commonly result in the criminal offender being placed on death row. Some legal execution methods would be: Lethal injection or electric chair. In my opinion I believe the death penalty is an illogical‚ unreasonable and an absurd

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    alternative for punishing a criminal. Where does the hostility and ignorance stop once it begins? Murder is unaccepted by society‚ yet people seem to pacify themselves by killing criminals. Is that not considered to be murder? Sentencing a criminal to death does not solve the questions and problems that are left behind. Parents will still cry for a child that is never coming home. Mourning families will still carry a never-ending heartache‚ and the criminal no longer has to pay for the consequences of

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    caused. Just desert want the offender to suffer no more than the pain caused. They wish to see that justice is served but not more than that which is truly deserved. One punishment that is considered retribution rather than rehabilitative is the death penalty. The argument that this punishment is more retribution is that the offender should suffer the same harm to which his or her inflicted on the victim. They see the

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    The Black Death The Black Death was an especially a traumatic event because of the origin‚ prevalence of unsanitary conditions to the number of the deaths‚ and the remorseless treatment of citizens by others. Only devastating memories are left from the lack of cleanliness to the high death rates of The Black Death. It was first heard of in Central Asia in 1338-39. Scholars have yet not agreed where exactly in Asia the plague originated from‚ research and further investigation

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    Is the death penalty effective? 3. Is our election process fair? 4. Do colleges put too much stock in standardized test scores? 5. Is torture ever acceptable? 6. Should men get paternity leave from work? 7. Is a lottery a good idea? 8. Do we have a fair taxation system? 9. Do curfews keep teens out of trouble? 10. Is cheating out of control? 11. Are we too dependent on computers? 12. Are parents clueless about child predators on the Internet? 13. Should

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