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- 6351: The Death Penalty Is Needed
- ... stop here. It was August 3, the year was 1986. A man named Esquel Banda had just raped, stabbed and strangled a 74 year old widow by the name of Merle Laird in her own house. Banda then sucked the blood from the woman's mouth. Does that describe a kind, gentle man, who is not a threat to society? A man who values life or a man that deserves life ...
- 6352: The Need For Capital Punishment
- ... who support the abolishment of capital punishment would ask about rehabilitation, the re-training of prisoners with an employable skill for use when they are released. Not only is it expensive to re-train and house criminals, but with some, it is just not possible, because they are hardened criminals and will not change. For those people, it is just not worth the effort and the taxpayers' money to even attempt ...
- 6353: The Death Penalty for Justice and Safety
- ... he must have twisted frantically, like a trapped dog being smothered. Struggling, panic then darkness, and finally only a limp childs body, no longer worth the pleasure, thrown into a drainage pond behind his house. There was no majesty in his going. James Arthur Buck Murray was convicted for the brutal rape and murder of 13 year old Jonathan A. Hall. Murray, who lived in the same neighborhood as Jonathan ...
- 6354: Drug Trafficking In Mexico
- ... S. and Mexican officials agreed that the performance of the task forces would be a yardstick by which to measure cooperation between the two nations, and monitoring their success was included formally in the White House's National Drug Control Strategy report issued last month. "Regretfully, [the task forces] were never really implemented," DEA chief Thomas Constantine told Congress last week, blaming the failure on corruption and lack of security. U ...
- 6355: The Increase of Violent Crimes
- ... people will buy guns to protect themselves. Eventually some of the guns will find their way to criminals and be used by them, making the problem worse. Some Americans buy guns as protection against mugging, house breaking, and assault. The law of self defense, both in Britain and the United States, specifies that a person may use "reasonable force" to prevent crime. More than 2,000 people a year use a ...
- 6356: Gun Control
- ... every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. In conclusion there are valid reasons for why certain people feel that gun control is ...
- 6357: Gun Control
- ... gun on the whim, but it actually protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim (who can't get a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago) is simply a victim of ...
- 6358: Marijuana Should Be Legalized
- ... Ending Nightmare). Works Cited Dennis, Richard J. "Illegal Drugs Should Be Legalized." Chemical Dependency: Opposing Viewpoints. Eds. Charles P. Cozic and Karen Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1991. Marshall, Eliot. Legalization: A Debate. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
- 6359: Capital Punishment
- ... who support the abolishment of capital punishment would ask about rehabilitation, the re-training of prisoners with an employable skill for use when they are released. Not only is it expensive to re-train and house criminals, but with some, it is just not possible, because they are hardened criminals and will not change. For those people, it is just not worth the effort and the taxpayers' money to even attempt ...
- 6360: Legalization of Drugs
- ... would no longer be "drug offenders" to incarcerate. And, since many drug users would no longer need to commit violent or property crime to pay for their habits, there would be fewer "drug" criminals to house. Instead of building more prisons, we could pocket the money and still be safer. As a consequence, all criminals have a much better chance of escaping detection and punishment than if drugs were legal. How ...
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