Essays on Punishment Page 2

Comp/2nd1/14/97The Caning Punishment IssueReintroducing corporeal punishment would lower the crime rate and give some justice to the victims. There should be a defined level to the punishment and to which crimes it should be dealt. Establishing such laws should also take in to account the growing crime rate and the need to solve this problem….

Is the death penalty just or unjust? It has been argued that capitol punishmentis imposed merely to gratify a desire for revenge. Whether or not a punishmentis legal depends upon whether or not it serves a valid goal or purpose of apolicy. The death penalty is usually defended on two grounds; is useful andthat is…

This day in age murderers actions are getting more and more incomprehensive. They are no longer just committing murder: they are torturing, mutilating, andengaging in grossly inappropriate acts against fellow human beings. Behaviorssuch as this will continue if nothing is done to stop them. The death penalty isa humane way to punish the convicted and…

nd their families. Taking the life of another individual exempts the taker of that life the right to live. For example, take the case of Stephanie Schmidt, a young woman who was brutally raped and murdered 5 years ago, outside of Pittsburg, Kansas. Her murderer, Donald Gideon, was a convicted sex offender. He received 40…

e U. S. Ever since the death penalty has been declared constitutional in 1976, thousands of people have been placed on death row and 314 of them have been executed. ( Yaffe,1) Thirty-eight states now allow the death penalty, with New York being the last to adapt this legislation last March. Massachusetts and Iowa have…

?The?Capital punishment is the infliction of the death penalty on personsconvicted of a crime. ?This has been a topic of debate for many years. ?Why do we kill people to prove killing people is wrong??The 1st argument I have against capital punishment is that it?sunconstitutional. Every person has an equal right to ?life, liberty, and…

Susan Smith purposely drove her car off into a lake with her 2 children strapped to the back seats. Think of how they must have felt as the cold water started to fill the car, and then ultimately drowned them. Barbaric is the word I would use to describe her actions. But yet, the jury…

When New York States governor George Pataki took office in 1995, crime dropped in total of 45%, and the murder rate dropped by 1/3. As of September 1st 1995, the death penalty was reinstated in the state of New York, assuring safer communities and fewer victims, and an over all drop in crime rate. People…

On July 2, 1976, almost two hundred years since the United States of America passed the Declaration of Independence, the Supreme Court legalized capital punishment (Appendix 1). Capital punishment executed for the crime of theft. Since then there have been an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 people lawfully executed(Espy pp. 194). In the eighteenth century, England…

Is the death penalty a just way of punishing those who commit a horrible crime? The answer to that depends on the standpoint of an individual. Fox Butterfield of the New York Times notices that In the view of some, the failure to enforce the death penalty reflects and enduring ambivalence about the capital punishment….