|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 6371 - 6380 of 7138 matching essays
- 6371: Death Penalty in the United States
- ... that he had spent on death row constituted cruel and unusual punishment. This appeal was overturned in 1995 (Winters 108). Scheidegger and many other supporters of the death penalty feel that this was a great abuse of the system, and a waste of millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Death penalty supporters also feel that the likelihood of an innocent person being put to death is very low due to the ...
- 6372: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... handguns and someone is injured every 2 ½ minutes. Let's consider if there was no control on the sale/purchase of guns. Every psycho, murderer, rapist, abuser, gang-banger, thief, kidnapper, tyrant, drug-lord, and child would have access to weapons and there would be no stopping them. After all, it would be their right to own a weapon! It would be a disaster! There would be machine guns propped on ...
- 6373: The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
- ... youngsters who are completely abstinent. It is hard not allowing eighteen-year-olds to drink when over 90% of the underage population say it is very easy to obtain alcohol. A 1994 study on substance abuse found that 55.7% of eighteen-year-olds in the U.S. and Alberta, Canada drink sensibly. (The Age of Exile, March 25, 1995, p.1) Studies in the 1970s show that underage drinking causes ...
- 6374: The Problems of Drinking and Driving
- ... is all too common among young people. Although people attempt to drill the message "don't drink and drive" into young minds everywhere as early as kindergarten, it doesn't seem to be enough. A child needs to get this message early and often. This is unfortunately not always so. Today, only one in every three parents has given their children a clear "no use" message about alcohol. (www.madd.org ...
- 6375: Should Handguns Be Legal to All
- ... anti gun users for some time and will probably continue for some time longer. There are people who say handguns in the home can only cause unneeded accidents. There have been several incidents where a child in the household has mistaken a gun for a toy and has injured themself or others. Also there have been occasions where careless gun owners have left their guns loaded and someone was shoot accidentally ...
- 6376: The Debate Over Capital Punishment
- ... will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, because of human nature to ignore practised ...
- 6377: Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes or No?
- ... know, then you could take the right precautions, but if the system does its job then you should have to worry about Jesse as much as any other person. It is not fair to the child to limit the way he or she can play just because a sex offender is free. I feel that the police department has an obligation to make sure everybody that wants to know about the ...
- 6378: DNA and Crime
- ... 17 years. He was convicted of killing his unborn baby and nearly beating his wife to death. He was released as authorities prepared to charge a convicted rapist with the murder of Greens unborn child. The reversal of Greens conviction came after another man confessed and his statement was backed up by DNA technology not available in 1980. He was sent to prison on the testimony of his wife ...
- 6379: Analysis of Police Corruption
- ... guns in the air and plan their illegal drug raids. (New York Times, Nov. 17, 1993: p. 3) It was "victimless crimes" problem which many view was a prime cause in the growth of police abuse. Reports have shown that the large majority of corrupt acts by police involve payoffs from both the perpetrators and the "victims" of victimless crimes. The knapp commission in the New York found that although corruption ...
- 6380: Illegial Aliens
- ... free schooling. But despite this, one-third of them don't even know English! America is squandering an inordinate amount of money funding bilingual education, on immigrants' children, making the U.S. the #1 in child illiteracy. Don't forget the healthcare that these free-loading moochers are getting their hands on, either. Some elderly people in the United States can't even afford to have a decent hospital visit, while ...
Search results 6371 - 6380 of 7138 matching essays
|
