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- 1081: Marijuana
- ... an illegal substance. The first point is that Marijuana causes brain damage. There have been many studies done on the cause of Marijuana on the brain. The most prolific however was the experiment by Dr. Robert Heath, who in the 1970's tested Marijuana on laboratory monkeys. Dr. Heath concluded that Marijuana caused brain damage to those who smoke pot. This is a cherished point by Marijuana protesters. They cling to ...
- 1082: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... the system of dealing out death sentences. Smolowe (1991) shows this infection by giving examples of two cases decided in February of 1991, both in Columbus. The first example is a white defendant named James Robert Caldwell who was convicted of stabbing his 10 year old son repeatedly and raping and killing his 12 year old daughter. The second example is of a black man, Jerry Walker, convicted of killing a ...
- 1083: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... the system of dealing out death sentences. Smolowe (1991) shows this infection by giving examples of two cases decided in February of 1991, both in Columbus. The first example is a white defendant named James Robert Caldwell who was convicted of stabbing his 10 year old son repeatedly and raping and killing his 12 year old daughter. The second example is of a black man, Jerry Walker, convicted of killing a ...
- 1084: Police Blunders in The Manson Investigation
- ... this time, about twelve forty a.m., he awoke his supervisor, told him about the scream, and requested that he go see if anyone needed help. He drove around the area but saw nothing unusual. Robert Bullington of the Bel Air Patrol was in his parked car when he heard three gunshots spaced a few seconds apart. He immediately called in to headquarters (the call logged in at 4:11 a ...
- 1085: Methods of Execution
- ... Taiwan." The Christian Century. 10 October 1990:893(2). Infotrac. MIC 56M0102. Kaplan, David A. and Glick Danil. "Ready, aim ... fire; Utah schedules an execution by firing squad." Newsweek. 29 January 1996:54. Infotrac. Matthews, Robert. "The Final Judgment." Focus. (London, England) November 1995:38-42. Rpt. in SIRS. Corrections, 1995:5:55. Moorehead, Caroline. "Tinkering with Death." World Press Review. July 1995:38(2). Infotrac. MIC 79K0041. "This is your ...
- 1086: Capital Punishment: Why or Why Not?
- ... can also pay for it. That's the main reason for the death penalty anyway, to tell every criminal and future criminal that you'll have to pay for your crimes that you commit. As Robert Matthews a journalism for Focus an English magazine once wrote "Some people argue that the absence of capital punishment in this country [England] is the mark of a civilized society. I believe we are rapidly ...
- 1087: Death Penalty in the United States
- ... of capital punishment is that innocent people can be executed. According to ex- Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun, 23 innocent people have been executed this century (Winters 84). In 1994, the state of Texas executed Robert Nelson Drew even after another man confessed to the murder and exonerated Drew ("Guilty"). Cases as clear cut as this are admittedly rare, but there are other cases where people have been executed for crimes ...
- 1088: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... do kill people. Guns kill people best. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a sniper's bullet. In 1968, Martin Luther King was killed by a gunman, and also in 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet in Los Angeles. Each year 1,200 people are killed in accidents involving handguns and someone is injured every 2 ½ minutes. Let's consider if there was ...
- 1089: Serial Killing: Is It An Addiction?
- ... View of Addictions. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Pomerleau, Ovide and Cynthia. (1988). "A Biobehavioral View of Substance Abuse and Addiction." In Stanton Peele (Ed.), Visions of Addiction. Lexington: DC Health and Company. Ressler, Robert K., et al. (1988). Sexual Homocide. Lexington: DC Health and Company. Schaef, A.W. (1987). When Society Becomes an Addict. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
- 1090: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... I would not endorse nullification in any case."23 According to Michael Vitiello, much of the reason for the abandonment of rehabilitation as a plausible reason for imprisonment stems from the work of one man, Robert Martinson. Vitiello states that most of the analysis of rehabilitation is based upon the studies of Martinson, which originally stated that it would never be a plausible idea. However, Martinson later retracted his conclusions, though ...
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