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- 1201: Capital Punishment
- ... Approximately three-fifths of the executions were in the South. A ten year interim began in 1967. The states as well as many advocates waited anxiously as the Supreme Court resolved the issue of the constitution versus capital punishment. There have been 143 executions since its end in Utah. Statistics show that criminals convicted of murder make up 87% of the those executed. After the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal ...
- 1202: Capital Punishment and The Death Penalty
- ... the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments." Four years later, in the case of Gregg vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court shifted in the opposite direction, and ruled that "the punishment of death does not invariably violate the Constitution." The Court ruled that these new statutes contained "objective standards to guide, regularize, and make rationally reviewable the process of imposing the sentence of death." (Bedau, Hugo Adam, American Civil Liberties Union, prodigy) There are ...
- 1203: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... Court has steadily reduced the availability of habeas corpus review of capital convictions, placing its confidence in the notion that state judges, who take the same oath of office as federal judges to uphold the Constitution, can be trusted to enforce it."(Bright 768) This makes for the biased trying of a defendant's appeals, "
given the overwhelming pressure on elected state judges to heed, and perhaps even lead to, the ...
- 1204: Abortion
- ... of justices to the Supreme Court who would reverse Roe v. Wade that has been in the center of abortion controversy for many years. The Democratic Party supported the proposed Equal Right Amendment to the Constitution, which stated that equal rights should not be denied to any person because of sex. By the 1992 election, national Democratic officials were committed to making pro-choice policies and national Republican officials were committed ...
- 1205: Abortion and Politics
- ... of justices to the Supreme Court who would reverse Roe v. Wade that has been in the center of abortion controversy for many years. The Democratic Party supported the proposed Equal Right Amendment to the Constitution, which stated that equal rights should not be denied to any person because of sex. By the 1992 election, national Democratic officials were committed to making pro-choice policies and national Republican officials were committed ...
- 1206: Euthanasia
- ... freedom of choice, the freedom for a person to choose a death with dignity and free of pain and suffering for themselves and their families. Lets not forget the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution. The voluntary choice between life and death is the basic human right, which the government has no right to legislate. A case in point, in 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case Cruzan v. Director, Missouri ...
- 1207: Abortion is Murder
- ... to deserve to have its life snathed away so suddenly. A tiny baby who can feel, taste, breath and move can be condemned to die without ever saying or doing anything wrong. In the very constitution that our country is founded on, we are all given the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... Why is it that a pure baby is not given these rights as well?
- 1208: Teenage Abortion
- ... minors to either notify their parents or receive consent from them before having an abortion. The United States Supreme Court first declared these types of laws constitutional in 1979. Legally, The Parental Notification Act, is constitution and is reasonable, however there are many arguments as to the downside of this new law. If minors are allowed to make any other major medical decisions during their pregnancies and can even decide to ...
- 1209: DNA: An Invasion of Privacy?
- ... to believe that the suspect has committed a crime. (347) This law is to protect the rights of the person(s) in question. Whether a person is guilty or not the fourth amendment of the Constitution was established to protect any U.S. citizen. There are also three requirements for law enforcement officials to have before they can proceed with obtaining DNA, (1) probable cause to believe the suspect has committed ...
- 1210: Euthanasia, Mercy or Murder?
- ... gentle and easy death. There are many people in the United States who are suffering from ongoing pain. If someone wants to die they should be able to make that decision for themselves. In the Constitution, it is stated that all United States citizens have the right to life. Therefore, why shouldnt people also have the right to death? If someone wants to end their life due to a major ...
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