Wade court decision to legalize abortion, 40 million innocent lives have been disposed of like garbage and small bodies tucked away into jars and trash bags. ... A disabled or impoverished life is better then no life at all. ... Aren't you glad she gave you a chance, no matter how pathetic your life is? Clearly every unborn child has the right to life. Now 40 million lives can't be taken back, but 40 million more deaths can be prevented. ...

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Consider how different their life would be after being exiled from the outside world. ... They may also choose to blame society for their life of crime. ... The piece "A Psalm of Life" is a beautiful and truly inspiring poem. ... "A Psalm of Life" is a message to everyone that they should live life to the fullest, bettering themselves day by day in order to leave behind something that others can benefit from. "We can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sand of time". (145, lines 26-28) The speaker uses a metaphor here by compa...

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They should be stopped when they start to pose a threat on people's lives. ... Don't you think that it is silly for a cop to risk his/her own life, along with the life of the suspect and lives of the innocent bystanders just so that "justice can be served"; when all cops have to do is get their tag number and description of the vehicle and catch them later? ... Why risk so many lives just to get a very small portion of drugs off the street? ... It is probably easier to lose the helicopter than it would be to lose ten police cars, and more "criminals" would get away, but more lives...

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These people's lives are taken away from them for something that they didn't even do. ... What gives us the right to choose whether or not someone lives or dies? By doing this we are just as bad as the murderers because we are choosing to take a life when it should be Gods decision to make whether or not someone lives or dies. ... You cannot bring the murdered person back by taking the prisoner's life. ... As far as costs, it is much cheaper to keep a person alive in prison for life. ...

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In America's minefield of urban life, Lafayette and Pharaoh are surrounded by violence and poverty through their lives. ... The young lives have virtually no possibility for getting out of the ghetto or even just to grow up. ... They knew that it was an every day part of their life. ... At least prison would keep him off the street and hopefully save his life. ... While reading about the lives of these two boys, your heart breaks. ...

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In America's minefield of urban life, Lafayette and Pharaoh are surrounded by violence and poverty through their lives. ... The young lives have virtually no possibility for getting out of the ghetto or even just to grow up. ... They knew that it was an every day part of their life. ... At least prison would keep him off the street and hopefully save his life. ... While reading about the lives of these two boys, your heart breaks. ...

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I think criminals are not born but made because of certain conditions in theier lives. Committing crime is definitely not something one is born with, but gradually over time it takes place because of certain situations or circumstances that life throws at a person. ... If raised in the proper way, many can be saved from living a life of a criminal. According to the article, criminals start their life as unattached children with a genetic predisposition. ... This proves further that children are turned into criminals because of some reason in their earlier or later lives and are not born with...

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The death penalty destroys human lives and violates human rights. ... Putting murderers to death sends the message that life is cheap. ... Life without parole is much worse then the death penalty. ... Terrorists very often risk their lives to achieve their goals. ... If it is wrong for a murderer to take a life, how can it be right for the state to take a life? ...

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Thinking this way will cause any humanist to try and protect the life of even the vilest of criminals. ... Life in prison takes part of a humanist's tax money to pay for medical needs and keeping the killer locked up. ... (www.electronicreferences.com) Human psychology proves over and over that members of a community feel safe in the absence of a potential threat to their lives. ... Capital punishment also ensures another day of life for a potential homicide victim. The use of capital punishment is very effective in the act of saving the lives of potential victims. ...

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The teens experience how good it makes them feel to have a positive impact on other people's lives. ... This will show teens that every life is special; including the life of what would be their rival gang members in Salinas. ... The new, positive role models lead their teens, and teach them important things about the world and their lives. ... By exposing teens to new environments and role models, it allows them to see a new perspective on life. ... Every cent counts toward a life that can be changed....

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Is it because they want to change their lives? ... These programs help promote re-integration of offenders into society and address life skills from a spiritual perspective (Gingerich, 1). ... Inmates admitted that they were powerless over addiction and their lives had become unmanageable. 2. ... Stability in life comes from positive, in-depth, long-term relationships (Gingerich, 1). ... Inmates who become involved with faith-based treatments usually change their lives. ...

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These criminals gave up any right to privacy and living a normal life when they committed these unforgivable crimes. ... People should stop thinking so much about the rights and lives of criminals and child abusers and start thinking about the rights and lives of those who have been abused by these individuals. ... Do they live normal lives, or do they live in constant fear. ... So let's think about the victims before worrying about how rapists and pedophiles are going to live a normal productive life. ... How are their lives normal? ...

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Debating whether they receive execution or spend the rest of their ruined lives rotting in a jail cell seems pointless. The government throws away these human's lives. We control the lives of these criminals and we should not waste them. ... This information means that the general public will resolve to end the lives of these killers. ... Death row murderers owe the United States citzens whose lives they have altered so permanently. ...

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According to Mark Costanzo, capital punishment is more expensive then life in jail. ... Which could cause an innocent person to lose his or her life and you can not give someone back their life. ... Therefore, if capital punishment was established, a lot of innocent people are going to lose their lives. ... Innocent lives will be saved. ... We pay more for one man or one woman to be killed than to imprison them for the rest of their lives. ...

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This is where Dick's life began to fall apart. ... They will most likely stay in that class for the rest of their lives. ... Like people have all my life. ... His intent was not to end the lives of the Clutter family but more to rid himself of this metaphorical figure who had tormented him all his life. ... Instead their lives were ended and they had no chance to receive help or express remorse for their crime. ...

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A judge could sentence a man to life in prison. ... How has life in jail become known as ten to fifteen years? ... No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ... As society's tool of death, capital punishment continues to take the lives of many criminals and even those who were falsely accused. ... Along with the destruction of many lives comes the waste of millions of dollars each year because of capital punishment. ...

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Ending someone's life! ... Many people have been wrongfully accused and have paid with their lives for someone else's mistake. ... Doctors, the people that are supposed to save life are destroying life. ... Capital punishment has claimed the lives of many innocent people. ... It is better for them to rot in a jail cell for the rest of their lives, knowing what they did. ...

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Most people know the threat of crime to their lives, but the question lies in the methods and action in which it should be dealt with. ... Given that the death penalty will probably have absolutely no influence on my life (in the law enforcement sense, not the debate sense). ... The death penalty saves lives. It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. ... Certainly human lives are more important, for it may easily be yours. ...

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There are around 3000 people on death row across the country right now and if these politicians get their way, then 3000 lives will be spared.... All human life does have the right to be respected but there is a point when that right can be lost, if someone takes the life of another human being then they have given up that right. ... Terrorists threaten and endanger the lives of many people so if they are caught, they should immediately be put to death. ... It is cheaper to execute the ones who have life sentences. ... The thousands of criminals who take a person's life should be...

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In Ross's film The Hunger Games, the beginning of the movie introduced a game thatwas made only for the people who lives in the Districts of Panem. ... It could have prevented the treatment that they are receiving from the capitol especially to all the people that lives in districts. ... Humans are not meant to live in a perfect world just like the people that lives in state of Detroit in the film Robocop. ... In the film Hunger Games, the main problem in that movie is that people's lives are being toyed. ... In conclusion, dystopia reflect on human life. ...

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Criminals have become part of our daily lives. ... "The worst criminal act is the willful and malicious taking of another's life." ... I believe in a life for a life. ... Most criminals would think twice about their actions if they knew that their own lives were at stake. ... A life for a life is a valuable and important argument for the death penalty. ...

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When someone takes a life, the balance of justice is disturbed. ... Retribution has its basis in religious values, which have historically maintained that it is proper to take an eye for an eye and a life for a life. ... Any lesser punishment would undermine the value society places on protecting lives. ... Society takes many risks in which innocent lives can be lost. ... The innocent convict, and their families, was wrongly deprived of their lives. ...

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An innocent man lost his life because of a piece of evidence that wasn't even proven to be correct. ... As surprising as it may sound, it costs 3 times more to carry out an execution than to sentence some to life in prison without parole. ... There is no way of knowing how many other innocent lives have been lost due to capital punishment. ... There is no way to possibly calculate the number of innocent lives that have been sacrificed at the hands of unfair judgment. Even for those who have been proven guilty, life in prison without parole is a very substantial replacement for capital...

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My question is that is that enough punishment for those who completely ruin their victims' lives and reputation? The person who has been sexually assaulted goes through major changes in their life. ... One who sexually assaults the other and then murders that person to cover their tracks should be imprisoned for life. ... This is why many of those who have been sexually assaulted take their lives so they don't have to live with the fact that they were a victim of a disgusting crime. ... It can have a great impact on someone's life and people should take a stand against those who...

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Who gives us the right to justify if a man lives or dies? ... We should just lock them up for life. ... Criminals are threats to society but what harm can they do in a prison cell for the rest of their lives? ... So why do we keep doing them the favor of ending their lives for them? ... There not going to change their ways of life. ...

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