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Papers on Legal Issues
Crime And The Death Penalty
Number of words: 1379 | Number of pages: 6.... investigating or prosecuting his or her activities; advising,
directing, authorizing or assisting in the murder of someone. Also,
The Anti-Drug abuse act of 1988 calls for the death penalty for all
drug related killings. Along with that, The bill amending sec. 848
to controlled substances act calls for the death penalty or life
imprisonment for certain drug offences possession of 10 or more kg of
heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine or analogue. Added to that, The drug
kingpin act sates the use of death penalty for convicted major drug
dealers caugh .....
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Attacks On The Insanity Defense
Number of words: 3680 | Number of pages: 14.... and should be
abolished entirely. Insanity is a legal, not a medical definition.
Therefore, mental illness and insanity are not synonymous: only some mental
illness constitutes insanity. Insanity, however, includes not only mental
illness but also mental deficiencies. Due to this, there are problems in
exactly how to apply a medical theory to a legal matter (Herman, 1983;128).
The legal concepts of mental illness and insanity raise questions in a
conflict between what are termed legalistic criminology and scientific
criminology: mens rea, punishment v. treatment, responsibility, and prisons
v. hospitals. This debate seesaws to a .....
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Persuasive Essay: Capital Punishment
Number of words: 832 | Number of pages: 4.... right to take away their lives? It is a Christian's responsibility to point out to those who sin that they do so and this country, trusting in God as it says it does, should do just that. So if the government stands strongly by this statement that's on the dollar bill, may they line up all the liars, adulterers, Buddhists, thieves, covetous and murderers at the chair. If they shall look into this one sin as so evil may they see all ten commandments so holy.
The society is so confused as to what is "right." More and more children are becoming murderers themselves. The reason is obvious: they see that if they kill someone they go .....
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Crime And Punishment
Number of words: 382 | Number of pages: 2.... is the possibility of killing an
innocence person. With our improving technology, what we now believe is beyond
reasonable doubt might a verdict filled with errors in the future. One very good
example of this is the recent acquitting of a man jailed for raped and the
murder of a girl. If he was executed at the time, he would of never had the
chance to prove his innocence with the D.N.A. tests. He as an innocence man
would have been killed.
Legalizing execution for the punishing of murderers is a very important
decision for Canadians to make. The result of the decision will decide of
government have the right to kill its .....
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Marijuana
Number of words: 1843 | Number of pages: 7.... and "legendary"
pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all right.
In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female weakness, gout,
rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, and absentmindedness.
In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found marijuana was not
in use in formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham of the Welsh National School
of Medicine wrote, "One not need take to seriously the anecdotal use of it's use
for many purposes in China or by the Hindus in the pre-Christian Millennia .
..and by the Arabs!" In 1890 in England's "Lancet" said cannabis extr .....
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Counterfeiting: We're In The Money
Number of words: 1056 | Number of pages: 4.... With the use of the internet and a color printer, these two
teenagers were able to create and pass their counterfeit twenty dollar bills
through the high school cafeteria but were later arrest by police after trying
to use their money at a local Taco Bell. If teenagers are finding ways to
counterfeit money, that should tell someone that we need to do something to
protect our economy for the future.
In attempt to enhance our currency system, the one hundred dollar bill
was completely redesigned last year and released at the beginning of this year.
This new bill contains a security thread, a watermark, a larger portrait,
varriable-c .....
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The Death Penalty
Number of words: 568 | Number of pages: 3.... gas chamber, firing sqad, and hanging. Lethal injection is more humane because is less painful than others. A Leuther from FRED A. LEUTHER ASSOCIATES INC. who is specialized in the manufacture and restoration of electric chairs, gallows, gas chambers, and lethal injection system, said that in the future he would produce microwave helmets. It would destroy brain and all brain functions. It would shut down both the automatic and conscious nervous system. Within a second the executee’s brain would be cooked from the inside out.
While executions are being abolished in most parts of the world (except Iran, Iraq, China, Yemen and .....
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Violent Crimes Involving Guns
Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3.... robbers simply used other weapons.(5)The best available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the general adult population, indicates that guns are used about as often for defensive as for criminal purposes.6
The experience of other nations also provides little support for the notion that guns cause crime.(7)
Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and it requires all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50 to have a military-issued automatic weapon, ammunition and other equipment in their dwellings. (8) Israel, which has an extremely low crime rate but is vulnerable to enemies incl .....
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Death To The Death Penalty
Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3.... In none of these cases is it
possible that the fear to be sentenced to death could act as an effective
deterrent.
There is another heavy limit. One who plans a crime rationally can
choose to go on, although he knows the risk he's running, thinking that he
won't be discovered. Most of the criminologists assert that the best way to
discourage murderers isn't increasing the severity of punishment, but
increasing the possibility of discovering the crime and condemning the
culprit. This will take care of the truly deserving people, who know and
understand what they are doing.
Sometimes death penalty has opposite effe .....
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Make US Citizenship More Difficult
Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3.... a culture does or did exist it is then a mixture of the many subcultures brought to the United States by immigrants. However, each subculture added has substantially made the American culture richer. An incredible example is the broad range of cultural foods found in the United States. In how many other countries throughout the world can you go to almost any given city and find Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Tex-Mex, Cajun, and Mexican food.
Economically we can not afford to decrease the annual rate of immigration that we have. False statements that are passed between many Americans about immigrants are complaints that .....
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