Capital Punishment
.... of the death
penalty in the bible is "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to
death." (Exodus 21:12). The bible also suggests stoning a woman if she
unmarried sex and had "wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her
father's house" (Deuteronomy 22:21) England recognized seven major crimes that
called for execution by the end of the 15th century. These crimes were: murder,
theft (by deceitfully taking someone goods), burglary, rape, and arson. As
time went by more and more .....
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Capital Punishment, Should It Or Should It Not Be Used In Today's Criminal Judging System
.... directly
the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution "prohibits cruel and unusual
punishments" and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital
Punishment ensures Americans equality for all . The abolitionists also did a
poll which ensured that there was "no support for the view that the death
penalty provides a more effective deterrent to police homicides than alternative
sanctions. Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in
jurisdictions that provide for capital punis .....
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Capital Punishment
.... Execution was a suitable punishment for those times. Today,
though, the law is not as strict. This leads potential criminals not to fear the
death penalty because government today uses more "humane" methods of execution,
rather than the brutal punishment that history portrayed.
People who oppose the death penalty say that "there is no evidence that
the murder rate fluctuates according to the frequency with which the death
penalty is used" (Masur 153). It is more likely that the convict would be
paro .....
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Capital Punishment: For
.... she is planning,
and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can
also happen to me.
But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
fri .....
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Capital Punishment: Is It Required
.... the location of sacred burial
sites(Flanders 3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death
penalty to be racist, barbaric, and in violation with the United States
Constitution as "...cruel and unusual punishment." In this country, although
laws governing the application of the death penalty have undergone many changes
since biblical times, the punishment endures, and controversy has never been
greater.
Perhaps the most frequent argument for capital punishment is that of
deterrence. .....
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Capital Punishment
.... in acceptance. Over
200 crimes were punishable by death at the beginning of the 1800's. There were
just as many methods used to execute wrong-doers as there were crimes. Some of
the techniques used included beheading, stoning, drowning, hanging, crucifying,
and burying people alive. Also used were many nontraditional forms of
execution. One type of execution utilized elephants to crush the criminal's
head on a stone block.
As times changed, so did the death penalty. Laws aimed at abolishing
the dea .....
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Capital Punishment
.... for the
thrill and excitement. The Romans put slaves and prisoners in the Coliseum as
lion food while spectators enjoyed the sight (Horwitz 13).
In the early colonial states, the death penalty was applied for a vast
number of crimes, just like in England, the ruler of the states in this era (II
536). In England, in the 18th century, there were approximately 220 offenses
punishable by death. Some of them would today be considered as misdemeanors
and petty crimes (i. e. shooting of a rabbit, the theft of .....
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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
.... to prove this belief; however, “[a]ll the evidence
taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more
than long prison terms do.”(Cavanagh 4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson,
the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has
stated that “…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to
killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the
more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three t .....
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Cellular Phreaking
.... electronic identity, and use that instead.
How does the cellular system know who is calling, and where they are? When a
mobile phone enters a cell's area of transmission, it transmits its phone number
and its 8 digit ID number to that cell, who will keep track of it until it gets
far enough away that the sound quality is sufficiently diminished, and then the
phone is "handed off" to the cell that the customer has walked or driven into.
This process continues as long as the phone has power and is turned .....
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Censorship
.... etc. While others find less obscenity in these things.
This is where the discrepancy is found between what should and should not be
censored.
The world is filled with obscene things. And it would seem that parents
are just trying to protect their children from the outside world. But does it
really help? My friends sister was upset with her parents for raising her in
such a sheltered environment. When she went away to college, she got a taste of
what the real world was really like. These d .....
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Censorship: Freedom Or Suppression ?
.... should be censored and be given restrictions. The
first issue this brings up is who owns the Internet. No one really owns it
because it is really thousands of computer networked together. The main backbone
of the Internet was originally made up of government funded universities and
other government institutions. However that is no longer the case. Now the
majority of the Internet is run and operated by independent services and
everyday citizens. The Internet is a modern day symbol of the freedom of spe .....
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Common Sense Control, Not Gun Control
.... that it's you spouse so you don't shoot the
intruder through the door. Then the intruder kicks the door in, sending
splinters of wood flying about the room. The time has come, you raise from the
side of your bed, instinctively assuming a marksman's pose and fire just as the
intruder is raising his weapon. He flies back against the wall and slumps into
a lifeless pile. You then proceed to call 911.
Now, that is not an uncommon scenario in the present state of society.
Now what I ask you to pi .....
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Community-Based Policing: Law Enforcement For The Twentieth Century
.... for more effective ways to enhance the sense of public
safety and the quality of life in their communities. We have accepted C.B.P in
one police department after another,and we are ready now to agree that "C.B.P.
provides hope for the future of Law enforcement." We can trace the seed of C.B.P.
back to Sir Robert Peel, the father of the modern Police system, who said "the
Police is the public and the public are the Police"(Braiden). For different
reasons, the Police lost sight of that principle defining the .....
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Computer Generated Evidence In Court
.... output is only admissible in evidence
where special conditions are satisfied. These conditions are set out in detail
in section 69 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 (see further
Nyssens 1993, Reed 1993 and Tapper 1993).
In general the principles of admissibility are that the evidence must be
relevant to the proof of a fact in issue, to the credibility of a witness or to
the reliability of other evidence, and the evidence must not be inadmissible by
virtue of some particular rule of law ( .....
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Computer Crimes
.... to receive the money, is helping investigators. Another person
arrested is a Russian computer expert who worked at a Russian software company.
Vladimir Levin, head systems operator for AO Saturn, figured out how to get
around Citibank¹s security system and transfer money out of their accounts.
Levin, of St. Petersburg, claims he should not be turned over to American
authorities because there is no evidence that any computers in the United States
were used in the scheme. The U. S. governm .....
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