... implications of Elonis' statements. This is a grown man who should understand that words are vital to defining who an individual is and will be, one cannot simply arrange them into death threats because it's "therapeutic" or "cathartic." I insist, one cannot fix anger and grief with violent thoughts, much less with violence. The First Amendment should never be ... as an absolute. In the Elonis v. United States, I argue that the Supreme Court must end the repression set by Elonis to put an end to these apparently "harmless" death threats. During its first examination of the limits of fre...

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... the balance of power in Furman, Potter Stewart and Bryon White. What had troubled them about the death penalty was its randomness." (Banner 70) The new laws were put to the test in Gregg v. Georgia and were upheld. "Under the Gregg decision, the prosecution uses the punishment-phase ... defendant's prior record. The aggravating and mitigating factors must be weighed together before the judge or jury can make a decision about whether to impose a death sentence."(Clear and Cole 456) "By 1976, four years after Furman, 35 states and the federal government had enacted new capital punishment s...

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... present functioning". These two organizations also define mental retardation as restrictions in skill areas such as health and safety, social skills, leisure, and work. Prior to Atkins being sentenced to death, the State of Virginia ordered a second sentencing. In this sentencing, Dr. Nelson testified again, and continued on his theory that the perpetrator was in fact, although mildly, mentally retarded. ... . Also, Dr. Samehow accessed Atkins" school records. In lieu of administering the intelligence test that Dr. Nelson gave Atkins, Dr. Samehow asked questions from an earlier version o...

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The problems with our country's political discourse are many and grave, but an insufficient attention to Obamacare isn't among them. We have talked Obamacare to death, or at least into home hospice care. The "Obamacare " shorthand itself reflects our need to come up with less of a mouthful than "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, " given how ... possible answers, including the correct one, from which to choose. They more or less underperformed the odds. Apart from perennial news stories about how many Americans would flunk the citizenship test that immigrants must pass, we mostly gl...

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