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- 2521: Death Penalty
- ... this possibility enough to be convinced that capital punishment should be abolished. This is not true at all. The execution of innocent people is very rare because there are many safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty. There is legal assistance provided and an automatic appeal for persons convicted of capital crimes. Persons under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, new mothers or persons who have ...
- 2522: Death Penality
- ... this possibility enough to be convinced that capital punishment should be abolished. This is not true at all. The execution of innocent people is very rare because there are many safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty. There is legal assistance provided and an automatic appeal for persons convicted of capital crimes. Persons under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, new mothers or persons who have ...
- 2523: Cuba
- ... to the internet, information on any subject is there for the taking. Let's not forget the old fashioned means of communication which is also now available in Cuba--the phone. President Clinton approved a bill in the January that allows for direct phone calls to Cuba. With all of these drivers of change rapidly shaping our relationship with Cuba, it seems to be only a matter of time before Americans ...
- 2524: Cloning Is Ethically And Moral
- ... a chimpanzee, who carried one or more human genes via transgenic technology, be defined as still a chimp, a human, a subhuman, or something else? If defined as human, would we have to give it rights of citizenship? And if humans were to carry non-human transgenic genes, would that alter our definitions and treatment of them(Deductive Logic: Kluger 1997)? Also, if the technology were to be so that scientists ...
- 2525: Cloning
- ... are taking the work of God into our own hands. People question when we will draw the line for getting involved in natural events (Bruce 1). There is also a debate as to the moral rights of clones. Some say this will occur because there is no birth of newness (Post 19). We would not receive clones with such excitement as a child of a couple that conceived naturally. If natural ...
- 2526: ClockWork Orange
- ... his powerful beliefs that it is even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. Burgess not only considers moral oppression to be a wrong against one's civil rights, but he also considers it to be a destructive wrong against one's spiritual existence. This book delivers this message so powerfully, so overwhelmingly, that it leaves the reader in a state of awe and ...
- 2527: Child Labor
- ... labor will spread to every nation in the world. Envision the United States of America, the land of the free, home of the brave, a country that takes pride in its liberty and constitutional rights, with children working till all hours of the night making us clothing and sports equipment. Child labor is an infectious disease; it must be stopped before it reaches its height. The consequences of the spread ...
- 2528: Capital Punishment
- ... capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric, capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today's society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humane, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in high accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic form of punishment. Also, with the ever present possibility of mistaken execution, there will remain the question of ...
- 2529: Capital Punishment Should Be A
- ... way of judging how many innocent people have been executed but we can be certain that there were some." The United Nations, during an April 3rd 1997 press briefing, announced that its Commission on Human Rights had voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty. The resolution called on member states that still maintained the death penalty to restrict the number of offenses for which the death penalty could be imposed and ...
- 2530: Capital Punishment
- ... were sentenced to be executed: · Thomas More: was executed in the 1700s for being a traitor to the Roman Catholic Church in England. According to the laws of his time
. The accused man had no rights in the contemporary sense. There was no presumption of innocence, and the prisoner was given no opportunity to call witnesses in his defense
Thomas More was convicted of being contempt, and not following the rules ...
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