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    a person doesn’t repeat his mistake or learns from it and it should induce fear in him‚ rather than enjoying it. A punishment is given when a person commits a mistake or goes against a rule‚ which shouldn’t be violated. Sentence to death is the highest ranked punishment given by the government to the criminals for their heinous crimes. Although people think capital punishment is against human’s rights for life and is unethical‚ it should be practiced for particular cases of crimes such as sexual assault

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    Should Adolescent be allowed to Make Their Own Life and Death Decisions? Advances in biomedical technology have to cures that were only imagined a few years ago (Stein‚ et al. 2001). New ethical dilemmas have been brought into medical care of patients by these advances‚ especially those with life-threatening condition. Decisions for medical treatment must include a thorough understanding of the procedure and major side effects‚ especially pain and disability and their duration (Stein

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    Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? In the United States all 50 states have some form of the death penalty. 35+ states use lethal injection‚ 9 use electrocution‚ 11 use the gas chamber‚ 3 use hanging and 3 use a firing squad (Methods). In Ohio we use lethal injection as a sole method and in 2009 Ohio adopted a one-drug protocol using only sodium pentathol (Methods). People on death row are usually put there for committing violent crimes. Ohio currently has 142 people on death row‚ which is down

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    Equestrian sports have been in the summer Olympics since the 1900s. It is apart of today’s culture and livelihood of more people than you would think. Many argue that the Olympics should be strictly for humans only and not allow horses. But‚ Personally I think it is one of the most original and oldest sports that have been around and should continue on in being a sport in the summer Olympics. The Equestrian sport is a partnership of rider and horse becoming one with one another and has much equality

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    Does death justify the loss of a loved one? The death penalty has been around for decades‚ raising questions and resulting in the issue of whether it is socially acceptable or morally incorrect. Instinctively we perceive death with horror‚ particularly the thought of killing someone else. But as human beings we also have a barbarian instinct that wants revenge when someone has hurt us deeply. Generally people who have suffered a tragedy‚ in which a loved one has been taken from them‚ would tend to

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    Criminalization of the Mentally Ill Have you ever been dealt a dilemma were you knew that someone needed your help but you were also aware that you where not the individual with the capability of helping. This was the situation with my friend Dan; he and I went to high school together and were good friends. After graduation Dan went on to obtain a dual degree in mathematics and physics from Cal Berkeley‚ and was on the first U.S. table tennis team to go to china in the early 1970’s. I remember

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    Mentally Ill in Prison Tisha R. Gilmore Argosy University Abstract There are many mentally disabled individuals incarcerated in U. S. jails today. Their disabilities range from those born with mental retardation‚ to those with traumatic brain injuries from being involved in accidents‚ and include those with chemical imbalances due to natural causes or drug addictions. These people are treated as criminals and not as patients. Jails are not the place for this population. Keeping them incarcerated

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    Hobbes would argue that the insurgents should not have rebelled‚ that they have no right that they deserve whatever punishment the Sovereign wants to give them. Hobbes would have said that if it was not for the rebels‚ the Sovereign would have been able to fight the Islamic State when they first started. After defeating this other Commonwealth‚ the Islamic State‚ the Syrian government could have worked to improve the situation for all its subjects. But now that the Commonwealth is in a State of War

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    The topic of the death penalty is one that is often debated about throughout the world. This is so because it encompasses a highly controversial matter that concerns with the punishment given to those who commit capital crime. According to the Amnesty International (2014)‚ at least 2‚466 executions took place worldwide in 2014. That number is astounding‚ especially when considering that it represents individual human life. With the amount of executions taking place‚ the death penalty has been ever

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    Gun Control vs. Gun Rights

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    Running Head: GUN CONTROL VS. GUN RIGHTS Gun Control vs. Gun Rights By Robert Marlow For CJ 450 Senior Seminar Dr. Michael Eskey Park University September 2009 Abstract Gun control and gun rights have been an issue that has been debated for decades. Whenever there has been a mass shooting of any magnitude‚ it seems that the debate heats up even more. Consideration must be given as to what the benefits are of these gun control laws. Gun control laws must also be written as

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