When Society Kills
.... summarized as
follows:
Juries must be given clear guidelines on sentencing, which result
in explicit provisions for what constitutes aggravating and mitigating
circumstances. Defendants must have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to determine whether or not they
would get the death penalty. Defendants sentenced to death are granted
oversight protection in an automatic appeal to the state supreme court.
These constitutional safeguards translate .....
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Gun Control
.... translation in the eyes of the NRA and many
American citizens, clearly protects the individual rights of all citizens
to possess and operate firearms. This would easily make any and all gun
control laws unconstitutional. And therefore illegal. This translation,
however, is not accepted by all people. Including the United States
Government. They believe that the amendment guaranteed no right for
individual citizens to possess weaponry, but merely allowed for the
government to form and maintain an armed .....
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Misconduct In Police Departments
.... them their whole job if they do accept the
idea of ignoring the law:
When police officers see dealers with $300,000 in the back seat
of their car and know that if they arrest them the court's going
to turn them out anyway, it may seem better form of justice to
hit them in the pocketbook and take their money--especially if
the policeman has a big mortgage. (110)
An officer with a family might be involved in this conduct, therefore
threatening his or her salary. " .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... In New York State,
possession of under four ounces of marijuana is a violation, and is
punishable by only a ticket, and possible probation. Possession of four
ounces or more can result in jail time.
One argument in favor of legalizing marijuana is its potential use
as medicine. Many of the effects marijuana has on the mind and body are
helpful in fighting several diseases. Marijuana has often been used to
help cancer patients ease the pain of chemotherapy. It is also used
against AIDS. Ma .....
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Defending A Killer
.... The lawyer told his client
how he could not reveal that information, even though someone was going to
die for a crime they did not commit. Where and how could such a rule be put
into place that would make it totally acceptable for an innocent person to
be put to death for a crime that they did not commit? Try to vision if you
can, a family member accused of murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death for a crime they did not commit. How much faith would you now have in
that family member or friend tel .....
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Impact Of Abuse
.... childs mind.
"Since I was a little ten-year-old child, I had to deceive and hide
from the world and my mother that my father took a sexual interest in me.
Remember how you taught me that art of deceit? First you put me in a
situation that had to be kept a secret then you pledged me to secrecy...As
a ten- year-old child, what was I supposed to do? You are an intelligent
man-you figure out the options available to a ten-year-old in that
position." (Rush, 1980)
Guilt:
The abused will feel trem .....
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Capital Punishment: Pros
.... 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 f .....
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What Is Our World Coming To: Rising Crime In US
.... year where Anglos.
Generally most of the murders were committed by Anglos themselves. African-
Americans had only 28 deaths.
The biggest decrease was in the arson and larceny-thefts. The
larceny-thefts decreased 7.4% in the past year. Those are such cases as
purse-snatching, shop lifting, and thefts from vehicles.
Of the 254,342 people arrested last year, 54,767 of them were
juveniles. That is over 20%!
A total of 251,523 property crimes were reported last year. And of
the .....
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The Death Penalty
.... legalized in all states,
because it is morally just and it will deter crime.
The many opponents of capital punishment who are against it feel that
the death penalty is not a deterrent and that it is barbariaertic of the
past. It has no place in a civilized society today. One of the biggest
arguments against capital punishment is people feel that it violates the
eighth amendment which forbids cruel and unusual punishment. People
against Capital Punishment believe the death penalty is absurd and is .....
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Outline: Negative Debate On Effects Of Hate Mongering
.... out of hurting people is also terrible? Are you than
saying that the former case , the ones that you would call "hate crimes"
are more terrible even if the actual act is the same? You do realize that
this is what you are saying by assuming that hate crimes deserve a more
severe punishment?
Possible inherency 3. Rise in hate groups promotes violence. - People
are not forced to listen to hate mongering groups. The people who mostly
follow them are people who believe what they are preaching. - .....
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Capital Punishment
.... not a valid purpose of punishment. The states say a punishment that
conflicts harm can hardly be good for us. The states don't want to kill a
man who is already imprisoned. They say he's already being punished.
However the states don't keep all murders in jail forever. Some
of these criminals will get out and will probably start all over again. Its
not that they have to kill, but they have a problem. Problem or no problem
the states just can't let a killer get away with it. These criminal .....
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Editorial Speech On The Death Penalty
.... the cult today. In
1975 one of Manson's followers, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, made an
assassination attempt on then president Gerald Ford, in Manson's name. Even
now if you go to New York City you can find shirts with his picture on them,
glorifying him. Songs have been written praising him.
But together these have not yet touched the scariest thing about
Charles Manson. The thing that you should be most frightened of is that
Charles Manson, and many like him are alive, with chance of parol .....
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The Extradition Of Nazi War Criminals
.... to this question can be found in the Charter established at the
International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo:
Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement,
deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian
population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial
or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within
the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the
domestic law of the co .....
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Cannabis Hemp. . .Marijuana!
.... natural resource was far
too valuable to be relegated to the back burner of history forever.
In 1916, a U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin predicted that once a
docortication and harvesting machine was developed, cannabis would again
become America's largest agricultural industry. Some 22 years later,
Popular Mechanics introduced a new generation of investors to just such a
device, (See the February 1989 issue of HIGH TIMES.) which brings us to
this next bit of history:
A PLAN T .....
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Should Drugs Be Made Legal? (Against)
.... that legalizing drugs would lessen crime,
drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase
of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS.
Many believe that legalizing drugs would lessen crime. They point out
that the legalization of drugs would deter future criminal acts. They also
emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that
Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one
may infer the same of legalizing drugs. L .....
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