.... capital punishment is that of deterrence. What I am trying to say is that the prevailing thought is the death penalty will act to discourage other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies have been created attempting to prove this belief; however, "all the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4) In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred y .....

.... not sign the form they would not be hired. The six officers signed the employment agreement not knowing they were required to, because it was not agreeable to the Police Union first. The Pre-emolyment conditions are the following: 1. Pass a psychological exam given by the City 2. Pass a physical exam given by the City 3. Must pay for Police Academy training at a cost of approximately $1200 4. Must pass a prescreening exam by the Criminal Justice Council 5. Agree not to smoke on the job or off duty while employed by the city 6. Agree to random drug testing 7. Agree to .....

.... so detrimental to the good health of America's population that it should be illegal? Doctors say that smoking one joint or marijuana cigarette is as harmful to an individual's lungs as smoking seven cigarettes. Cigarettes are legal. It is legal in America for an individual to smoke seven cigarettes at once. According to doctors, there is no other physical harm caused to an individual due to smoking weed other than the affect on their lungs. Alcohol can cause liver disease, obesity, death, and many other health problems; however, it is legal. Marijuana doesn't cause more harmful affects to an individual than alcohol or tobacco does. Even so, marijuana' .....

.... as old as civilization itself. The death penalty has been imposed throughout history for many crimes, ranging from blasphemy and treason to petty theft and murder. Many ancient societies accepted the idea that certain crimes deserved capital punishment. Ancient Roman and Mosaic law endorsed the notion of retaliation; they believed in the rule of "an eye for an eye." Similarly, the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks all executed citizens for a variety of crimes. The most famous people to be executed are Socrates and Jesus. Only in England, during the reigns of King Canute (1016-1035) and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty no .....

.... crime just to prove it could be done. Loeb’s nineteen year old partner in crime, Nathan Leopold, interested in ornithology, philosophy, and especially, Richard Loeb. Leopold, like Loeb, was a child of wealth and opportunity. Leopold’s father, Jack, was a millionaire box manufacturer. Leopold was a law student at the University of Chicago and was planning to begin studies at Harvard Law School after a family trip to Europe in the summer. Leopold, who was very interested in wildlife, had already achieved recognition as the nation’s leading authority on the Kirtland warbler, an endangered songbird. Leopold agreed with Friedrich Nietzsche, and believed .....

.... for their citizens. By far one of the most well known and publicly glamorized of all methods of execution is electrocution. Present in nine American states, it was first used in New York in 1890. When a condemned man is scheduled to be executed, he is led into the death chamber and strapped to the point of immobility into a reinforced chair with belts crossing his chest, groin, legs, and arms. Two copper electrodes, dipped in brine or treated with Eletro-Creme to increase conductivity, are attached to him, one to his leg and the other to his head. The first jolt, between five-hundred and two-thousand volts depending on the size of the prisoner, is given for 30 .....

.... will cost about $30 million dollars. Despite common wisdom, the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. Many believe that legalizing drugs would lessen crime. They point out that the legalization of drugs would deter fu .....

.... who is convicted of assault and battery. Most people would have no problem agreeing with this. Yet many of these same people believe that a cold blooded killer deserves the same life sentence as a convicted kidnapper who did not kill his prisoner. Granted these are both serious offenses, but our system of law works be degrees of seriousness. The mental damage done to that prisoner can be turned around, but the life taken away by the murderer can never be given back. They should therefore be given a harsher punishment than life in prison. In terms of justice, we should all get what we deserve. One argument against the death penalty is that t .....