As of June 2002‚ the mandate was responsible in bringing 1‚007 (including women‚ minors‚ and aged) inmates to death row at the New Bilibid Prison and the Correctional Institution for Women in Manila (FLAG 2002). The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) estimated that the numbers were higher since inmates sentenced from the provincial prisons are still waiting to be transferred to the death row in the capital. FLAG further stated that the majority of the prisoners are poor and barely educated. Sixty
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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. The judicial decree that someone be 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 the head" (referring to execution by beheading). METHODS
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Topic: (Pro) Death Penalty Should society be forced to hide behind locked doors? Wouldn’t the world be a great place if crime rates were diminishing rather than inclining? How could the dream of safer streets and happier homes ever come to be? Capital punishment or also known as the death penalty is the assassination of an individual by a state which serves as punishment for committing unlawful actions; also giving retribution on behalf of the victims. The death penalty could be the
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of View: Death Penalty‚ 2009 Database: Points of View Reference Center Thesis: Capital punishment is useless as a deterrent‚ morally indefensible‚ discriminatory in practice‚ and prone to errors that may have led to the execution of wrongfully convicted people. Its continuing legality in the United States is critically undermining American moral stature around the world. The Supreme Court should bring the United States in line with the rest of the civilized world and hold that death is a cruel
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societal issue. I argued for a specific stance to be taken on the issue of the death penalty. The audience for this essay is the opinion section of the Sunday New York Times. This publication has a wide readership. The largest percentage of readers are between the ages of 35 and 44‚ and the majority of readers have either a college degree or a graduate degree. This essay argues for a question of value. The death penalty is an issue that has the United States quite divided. While there are many
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Continue with its Death Penalty? "As if one crime of such nature‚ done by a single man‚ acting individually‚ can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men‚ acting collectively" (Lewis Lawes‚ warden of Sing Sing prison in NY in the 1920s and 30s.) Many people think that is right to have payback over something that has been done to them and other think that it is brutal and goes against human morals. Also many people often questioned whether it ’s fair to continue with the death penalty and whether
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Death Penalty: Wrong or Right? Introduction Over several years‚ the death penalty has existed among various countries‚ and used to eliminate killers who are considered extremely dangerous in the society. According to various sources‚ the fear associated with the death penalty discourages individuals with the propensity of conducting such inhumane crimes. Application of the death penalty‚ however‚ comes with mixed reactions from the society since some people support it while others are against
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Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment Capital punishment or the death penalty is the act of killing or executing a person‚ who was found guilty of a serious crime‚ by the government. Without a doubt‚ executions are considered the ultimate punishment for a crime‚ because there is no repeal from death. The logical alternative for capital punishment is life in prison without parole‚ yet a lot of nations still perform the death penalty. This is because the debate whether capital punishment is ethical
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deterrence. “To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge‚ not justice”– Desmond Tutu. The ignorance that the public has for the death penalty is almost suffocating. People have been misguided into believing that capital punishment is of the greater good and promotes justice and humanity when in reality‚ it does the exact opposite. The abolishment of the death penalty is ideal because it is misanthropic and prejudiced. It is beyond expensive‚ racially biased and irreversible error is risked constantly
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Punishment and the Death Penalty The old saying goes‚ "an eye for an eye‚" and as for me‚ I agree. How many people feel it’s the right thing to do to murder those who have murdered? Many families have lost loved ones due to violent crimes and murders criminals have committed. SUMMARY OF FACTORS WHICH SUPPORT A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS WHILE SEEKING ALTERNATIVES ACCEPTABLE TO THE PUBLIC COST OF THE DEATH PENALTY - Various state governments estimate that a single death penalty case‚ from the point
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