Should the death penalty be reinstated in the UK? The restoration of the death penalty for serious crimes is an issue of debate in the UK because of the recent rise in violent crime. It is said that at least 17‚833 people are under the sentence of the death penalty worldwide as of 31 December 2010. The death penalty or otherwise known as the capital punishment is a legal process where a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Currently it is only allowed in 32 states and
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Was Hitler mentally ill? There is a great deal of debate on whether Adolf Hitler might have been mentally ill. Several books were written on this issue and one of them‚ The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler by Leonard L. Heston‚ MD‚ and Renate Heston‚ RN‚ suggested that Hitler did not suffer from bipolar‚ schizophrenic‚ paranoid schizophrenic or Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed as a chronic addict to amphetamine and barbiturate. The authors offered numerous clues to this addiction. Hilter
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“625‚000 teens became pregnant in 2010.” (Kaplan) Birth control is available to any teenager without parental consent in almost all states‚ excluding Texas and Utah. Teen girls should be able to have access to birth control without parental consent because it helps prevent teen pregnancy‚ it prevents young women from having to give their child up for adoption or having an abortion‚ and there are other benefits to taking hormonal contraceptives besides preventing pregnancy. About three in ten American
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Should capital punishment be reintroduced in Britain under any circumstances? Capital punishment‚ or the death penalty‚ is the execution of a convicted criminal as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. Since ancient times capital punishment has been a punishment for crimes like murder. Stoning‚ crucifixion‚ and drowning were old ways of carrying the death penalty out. Theses days some countries (the majority of the U.S.A.‚ Iraq and others) say that they use more ‘humane’
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Animal Rights. Should it really happen? By Joey Sullivan We eat animals‚ they help us to create medicines and vaccines and we use them to create everyday goods that we intake or use. Should animals really have the same rights as us? Some people agree that they should have the same rights as us and some people disagree. Should they really be enforced? Animals are often treated extremely badly‚ and abused because of the owners and because of companies doing testing on the animals and animal rights
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I believe some people should be able to own exotic animals. Some people don’t know how to care for animals properly‚ and they can get hurt‚ or hurt the animal. Also some people can care for animals like this without getting hurt‚
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Punishment Should teens have a night curfew? Over the past several years‚ in order to reduce juvenile crime and protect teenagers’ security‚ youth curfews are widely used in the United States. More than 300 towns have passed the local curfew laws which provide local police and authority the power to order young people under 18years old to stay at home during specific hours unless supervised by a responsible adult (Raymond‚ 2010). For example‚ in one of the towns‚ people under 18 have a curfew from
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"What Rights Did Women Have" What rights do you bealive a women has compared to a man? Do you think they have just as much or less than a hard working respectable man. If you aren’t sure about your answer then continue reading about an officer of the Women’s Rights from 1848-1928. Today it is November of 1903 and there are me‚ and many other guards and police officers waiting on the landing dock of Plymouth‚ England. Around noon the steam boat appeared out of the misty
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Bring Back the Death Penalty! The death penalty has been used throughout history; it has evolved from being stoned to death‚ to being hanged and finally being injected with 3 substances that will kill the victim without pain. Many ideas have developed over the years on how to take a criminal’s life and the lethal injection seems to be the most humane method but the fact that the death penalty has been abolished altogether in Britain is in my opinion appalling. Criminals all over the UK are committing
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Changing Rights and Freedoms of Aboriginal People Since the European invasion in 1788‚ Aboriginals have been treated poorly by the Australian government and have struggled to retain their rights and freedoms. Conflict emerged as the British colony expanded and Aboriginal land was taken from them. Due to conflict between the Aborigines and the British settlers‚ they were treated poorly and were refused rights and freedom. They were at risk under unfair industrial relations processes where they were
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