As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice said earlier in the session o parliament, David Milgaard, Donald Marshall and Guy Paul Morin are three names we too often forget. ... Thirty-five years old today, Guy Paul Morin paid a high price for a judicial error. ... For all the Clifford Olsons and Paul Bernardos that roam our streets, there will be innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit." ...

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Capital Punishment There have been many controversies in the history of the United States. Ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. The questions of fact concerning capital punishment fall into three general a...

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Eliminating crime is a part of our duty as humans. Criminals have become part of our daily lives. Ensuring a just punishment for the rightly convicted is very important. Not everyone who commits a crime should be sentenced to death. For example, a petty thief should not be executed. However, a ...

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Professor of Mass Communication, Paul Van Slambrouck, reporter at Christian Science Monitor; agrees stating, "Assaults in prisons across the U.S., both against fellow inmates and staff, have more than doubled in the past decade....

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I was shocked when I read Paul Cassell's article and he reported that, "of the roughly 52,000 state prison inmates serving time for murder, an estimated 810 had previously been convicted of murder and had killed 821 persons following those convictions....

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In 1996, Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court states, "Recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary methods has made it possible to establish conclusively that a disturbing number of persons who had been sentenced to death were actually innocent (pg 187)." ...

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The Controversial Issue of the Death Penalty and Why It Should be Upheld Introduction Throughout history, capital punishment has been viewed as a highly controversial and emotional subject and almost everyone has his or her own opinions about it and I am no exception. However, current re...

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History of Capital Punishment in Canada "In Canada, the death penalty has been rejected as an acceptable element of criminal justice. Capital punishment engages the underlying values of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. It is final and irreversible. Its imposition has been de...

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The death penalty or capital punishment as it is commonly referred to has been at the core of many heated debates in recent years. Capital punishment has been used by almost every culture in the world. Execution has been in existence almost as long as people have populated the earth and has been a ...

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better or for worse the constitution often uses vague wording to state a law. This may have very well been intentional. Perhaps the framers of the constitution wanted to establish a belief but allow it to adjust to the interpretations of the times. What exactly did the framers have in mind when they...

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