... arrives. People aren't always wrongfully accused on accident though. Sometimes it is because of another discriminating factor that people get wrongfully accused or are given a more severe punishment than necessary. (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org) Discrimination affects the death penalty in many ways. Statistics show that race, income, and geography have greatly affected the sentence of people that commit the same crime ... is much more likely to get the death penalty. There have been 43 black death row inmates that have been proven innocent, which indicates that judges are discriminating aga...

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... "6% of young adults paroled after having been convicted of murder were arrested for murder again within six years." (http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Resources.htm) In fact, in 1984, "an estimated 810 inmates previously convicted of murder had killed 821 persons following their previous murder ... shelter? Presently we allow murderers to sit in prison year after year, filing expensive court trial and appeals, "which cost 1.5 million each"(http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Resources.htm). Convicted murderers should be entitled to have only one appeal to their conviction to confirm the facts b...

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... be wrongfully executed. In 1999, out of almost 1.5 million violent crimes, there were over 15,000 murders and just under 90,000 forcible rapes (www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_00/00crime2_2.pdf). However, there were only 98 executions(Alter pg. 26). Capital punishment should not be abolished because is keeps ... by released and paroled criminals. Obviously, this is much worse than the twenty-three wrongful executions in the United States in the past century (www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/2698/cp.html#risk). There needs to be increased usage of the death penalty in order to lower the number of ....

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... this same state has been cutting back the expenses on education by at least 25 per cent and upped funding for incarceration by 3.2 billion dollars (www.about.com, 2003). I think that putting more money in education instead of increasing penalty would be more effective. Children are not miniature adults. They ... arrest as a juvenile by 53%". The same report adds that being abused as a child increases 37% the chance of "committing suicide or being a criminal" (www.about.com, 2003). From my point of view, the incarceration of children with adults is a big mistake that leads to terrible cons...

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... punishment has tended to be gradually replaced by fines and incarceration. However, several societies retain widespread use of corporal punishment; this includes nations such as Singapore and Malaysia. (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment) The Singaporean practice of caning became much discussed in the U.S. in 1994, when American teenager Michael Fay was sentenced to such punishment for an ... offence of car vandalisation. In Singapore, male violent offenders and rapists are typically sentenced to caning in addition to a prison term. (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_pu...

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... must be eliminated from our society. Works Cited "Capital Punishment: A Morally Bankrupt and Unnecessary Institution." [Online available] http://www.geocities.com/pdaug1pg/End_Capital_Punishment.html. 12 October 2002. Cauthen, Kenneth. "Capital Punishment, Death Penalty." [Online available] http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/cappun.htm. 12 October 2002. "Death Penalty: The 23 Innocent People Who Died." [Online available] http ... ://www.aclu.org/issues/death/23executed.html. 12 October 2002. Kamis, Theodore. "Capital Punishment Survey Report." Unpublished paper. Madison, 1996. ... Al+. Nak...

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... difficulty for officers. According to Kevin Barrett, "The suicide rate of police officers is more than twice that of the general population."" According to the National Police Suicide Foundation, http://www.psf.org/media.htm, an officer commits suicide every twenty-two hours in the United States. Some cities ratio of citizen suicide to officer suicide reaches nearly 200 times greater ... was rescuing two cats from a tree. People don't call for the police to tell them what a good job they are doing, they get arrested and curse them. According to http://www.word-warrior.net/policesuicide....

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... .com/def.hate. " Hate Crimes Today: An age old foe in modern dress." 1998. 28th of September 2003. http://www.apa.com. Hate crimes are defined as violent acts against people, property, or organizations because of the group to which they belong or identify themselves with. Crimes of this sort ... ...

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... sentenced to death. These people were released from death row after considerable evidence established their innocence, however, between 1900 and 1986, at least 23 people had been wrongly executed. (http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/pd051000c.html) These unjust executions are the result of errors in eyewitnesses or the lack of DNA evidence present at the scene of a murder. Another reason ... , such as the color or race of the defendant. Studies suggest that for every white executed for killing a black person, 14 black people were executed for murdering a white person. (http://www.skepticism.ne...

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... stake", 1995 Annual Report: Drugs and Alcohol. Columbia University: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 1996. http://www.casacolumbia.org/about/annual/nfar_kid6.htm "The Standardization of Juvenile Offender Program", Koch Crime Institute: White Paper Report, 1998. http://www.kci.org/publication/white_paper/program_eval /default.htm "You, your child and the law", The Matthew Project, 1998. http ... ://www.gurney.co.uk/watton/social/ matthew/law.htm "Questions and answers on youth and justice", Kwing Hung and Stan Lipinski ... ...

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... 6000 people in Canada have been killed or injured in gang fights. Teen gangs are bringing 20% more guns and 27% more drugs into communities which were once quiet areas (www.geocities/gangs.ca, 2002). These gangs require immediate attention because the longer they are left ignored, the worst they will become. Gang members usually range from the ages 11 to ... that more officers were needed because gangs were becoming an increasing problem. When they brought in these extra forces gang related crimes decreased 19% from what it was a year earlier (www.cnn.ca, 2003). Another way for law enfo...

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... . Between 1977 and 1992, 162 people were executed, twenty-nine of which were convicted of the killing of a non-white and only one of the twenty-nine was himself white (www.deathpenaltyfacts.com). Poor individuals cannot afford an attorney thus not receiving the best defense available. Ninety percent of those on death row could not afford a lawyer during trial ... (www.deathpenaltyfacts.com). A punishment so harsh should allow all people the same opportunities to defend themselves. The United States is one of the only remaining countries that implement the death penalty. ... believe the...

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... , now constitute for about 23% of all prison populations in 1995 (Faley, Jonathan. (1997). Fact Sheet: Drug Data Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 1-4. Retrieved from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov). Due to this, the nation's prison population has risen 5.2% (Gilliard, Darrell. (1998). Prisoners in 1997. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1. Retrieved from http ... ://www.marijuana.com). Federal prisons have now resorted to using smaller, local state jails to house serious criminals, and even then both state and federal prisons are overwhelmed with the capacity ...

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... 40.87 and the average age at the time of execution is 42.75. Inmates are on death row for an average of eleven years and five months. According to www.deathpenalty/history.org, juveniles have played a small role in the death penalty but it has been an important one. The first juvenile ever executed was back in 1642. Only three ... is less than three percent. The race of people is said to be a large and illegal factor in deciding if a person should be sentenced to live or die. According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white ma...

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... the kinds of people who commit certain types of crimes may lead officers to generalize about a particular group and act according to the generalization rather than specific behavior" (http://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/legitimacy/pages/racial-profiling.aspx). This quote explains how police officers use racial profiling to condense the search of people who may commit crimes. If ... that are known to commit certain crimes. "Racial profiling is unlikely to be an effective policing strategy as criminals can simply shift their activities outside the profile" (http://www.nij.gov/topics...

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... are not effected by the penalties we give them. In 1993, criminals on parole committed 84,800 crimes, this included 13,200 murders, 12,900 rapes and 49,500 robberies.(www.prodeathpenalty.com) The death penalty has the potential to be a very effective deterrent. The average inmate spends 9 years on death row costing the state substantial amounts of money. Life in ... average it costs three million dollars for a life without parole inmate. This cost is from the $60,000 a year for the cell for 6 years and 1.5 million dollars for the trial.(www.prodeathpenalty.com) I think from the statisti...

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... are not effected by the penalties we give them. In 1993, criminals on parole committed 84,800 crimes, this included 13,200 murders, 12,900 rapes and 49,500 robberies.(www.prodeathpenalty.com) The death penalty has the potential to be a very effective deterrent. The average inmate spends 9 years on death row costing the state substantial amounts of money. Life in ... average it costs three million dollars for a life without parole inmate. This cost is from the $60,000 a year for the cell for 6 years and 1.5 million dollars for the trial.(www.prodeathpenalty.com) I think from the statisti...

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... and Japan are the only two civilized countries, if you consider China civilized, that I can find on the list of 37, which includes the likes of Iran, Iraq, and Yemen (www.amnesty.org). Even our own allies such as Great Britain will not extradite suspected people to the U.S. if they face the death penalty. We constantly are under pressure from the ... of U.S. poll respondents believed in the death penalty; 47 percent opposed it. In 1997, 75 percent said they believed in the death penalty and only 22 percent opposed it (http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/stats.html#polls). I feel that t...

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... inherited traits, learned from society and family, or even a combination of both. In this case, an exact answer will probably never be known. REFERNCE PAGE 1. School violence resource center. http://www.svrc.net/4d.asp 2. Berg, Irwin A. and Bass, Bernard M. (1961). Conformity and Deviation. New York: Harper and Brothers. 3. Learning Theories. http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect10.htm 4. 5. Lemert, Edwin ... Social Control. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 6. Pfuhl, Erdwin H. Jr. (1980). The Deviance Process. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company. 7. What is delinquency and how does ...

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... feelings from logic and teachings from experience. It is one that I can only struggle with and merely attempt to find an answer for. Works Cited Catholics Against Capital Punishment. http://www.cacp.org. Fieser, James. "Capital Punishment." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http ... ...

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... in the manner that criminal news is represented to the public, was an issue. "40% [of individuals surveyed] think it is a problem, [and] half of them feel strongly about it" (www.tvsurveys.com). The survey reported that women are more likely than men to be concerned and have "specific complaints about local news ... " (www.tvsurveys.com). Individuals in the survey felt that crime was sensationalized, and television made criminals into heroes. There is concern over the media making crime exciting, fascinating, and attracting youths, ... ...

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... control will not keep guns out of the hands of criminals, since they do not obey laws, and will merely make it harder for law abiding citizens to own guns" (www.nationalissues.com). Criminals do not abide by the law. Gun control infers that a law will be made controlling guns in some way. With this being said, how can someone expect ... referring to ownership and regulation of firearms. These people believe that denying ownership of a firearm will decline the number of murders, considering "approximately 70% of murders are committed with firearms" (www.angelfire.com). The majority of th...

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... crime. In countries that have abolished capital punishment, homicide rates have actually declined. In Canada, the homicide rate has fallen 42 percent since the death penalty was abolished in 1975 (www.deathpenaltyinfo.com). This proves that countries need not fear a rise in crimes if the death penalty in abolished. Public opinion shows a decline in the support of capital punishment. The United ... than those who murder blacks. Does this seem like justice? A report from Amnesty International found that the use of the death penalty in the United States was racially biased (http://www.amne...

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... . The famous philosopher and writer Saint Thomas Aquinas states in Summa Theologica, if a person is harmful to the society, it is deserving that he is executed to preserve a safe community (www.newadvent.org/summa/). Aquinas agrees that it is only for the good of the society to kill the people who are corrupt and sinful. Supporters of capital punishment countered that ... sentences. A 1993 California study argues that each death penalty case costs at least $1.25 million more than a regular murder case and a sentence of life without the possibility of parole (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.o...

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... - that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to "riverboats" and state lotteries across the country" (www.time.com.) Many are also concerned with the potential rise of violence that would occur if marijuana were legalized. Contrary to the belief of many, the high rate of crime ... ...

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