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Papers on Legal Issues
Religion And Capital Punishment
Number of words: 3079 | Number of pages: 12.... opening quote of this paper comes directly from the Holy Bible. It suggests to the reader that God did not make death and He doesn’t delight in the death of a human being, regardless of the cause. The Holy Bible is one of the best places to find information about death and how to treat capital punishment. In setting out the ten commandments, one of its best known passages, in the Bible it is stated that: "Thou shalt not kill." (Dt. 5:17). This is not a conditional statement. Rather, it is direct, to the point, and does not incorporate any modifiers. God does not say, thou shalt not kill…unless the person you are .....
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"Three Strikes And You're Out"
Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2.... purse from some poor old lady. Well that's the big 3!
Under this new law, this crime would be tried as a misdemeanor but
would have s felonious sentence. Our buddy gets sent to 7 years at the
state penitentiary. While lodging at one of our nations finest resorts, our
sticky handed friend meets Bruno. After a painful greet and hello the two
become close personal friends. Bruno has this enemy. Another criminal who's
feelings got hurt when Bruno made a new friend. His name is Moose. Moose
begins to beat up our poor little crook something fierce. The guards do
nothing about it because, after all, they are a bunch of criminals. Bruno .....
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Cocaine
Number of words: 290 | Number of pages: 2.... Peru and Bolivia and cultivated in many other countries. For centuries
South American Indians have chewed the coca leaves for pleasure and to help them
withstand strenuous working conditions, hunger, and thirst. The cocaine in the
leaves produces local anesthesia of the mouth and stomach.
Cocaine is a dangerous, habit-forming drug. It is classified as an
alkaloid compound. (Other well-known alkaloids are morphine, strychnine, and
nicotine.) Cocaine stimulates the cortex of the brain, producing intense
euphoria and the desire to repeat the experience; however, the drug has a highly
toxic effect upon the central nervous syst .....
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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
Number of words: 680 | Number of pages: 3.... more valuable. In addition, teenagers would not feel as though
they were being controlled.
In addition to saving money, studies show that alcohol is easily
obtained and most eighteen-year-olds who do so drink sensibly. A ten-year-
old study found that youngsters who experiment moderately are better-
adjusted than youngsters who are completely abstinent. It is hard not
allowing eighteen-year-olds to drink when over 90% of the underage
population say it is very easy to obtain alcohol. A 1994 study on substance
abuse found that 55.7% of eighteen-year-olds in the U.S. and Alberta,
Canada drink sensibly. (“The Age of Exile, .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 1009 | Number of pages: 4.... do not, and therefore it is not effective and somewhat contributes to the problem. I must point out though that states that have the death penalty are usually highly urbanized areas that most likely will have high crime rates because of the large population. Rather, in rural states there is no need for the death penalty because the population is most likely low and scattered throughout the region. States that practice do so because of high crime rates, not vice versa. Abolitionists also state that the death penalty is a racist punishment, and only given to African Americans. In the May 11, 1998 issue of JET magazine it stated t .....
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The Debate Over Capital Punishment
Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3.... crime ranging from auto theft
to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their
actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves.
Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not
tolerate. How far they will and will not go. This personal set of conduct
can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc.
An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will
probably never understand any limit as to what they can do, until they have
learned it themselves. Therefore, capital punishment will never truly work
as a deterrent, .....
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Computer Generated Evidence In Court
Number of words: 4698 | Number of pages: 18.... Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 (see further
Nyssens 1993, Reed 1993 and Tapper 1993).
In general the principles of admissibility are that the evidence must be
relevant to the proof of a fact in issue, to the credibility of a witness or to
the reliability of other evidence, and the evidence must not be inadmissible by
virtue of some particular rule of law (Keane 1994, pp 15-20; Tapper 1990, pp 51-
61).
Real evidence usually takes the form of some material object (including computer
output) produced for inspection in order that the court may draw an inference
from its own observation as to the existence, condition or value of the .....
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Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment Of A Criminal
Number of words: 557 | Number of pages: 3.... crimes were recognized, and as a result over one thousand people a year
were faced with the sentence of death.
Now at modern time, the death penalty, has been rekindled. Although,
it is not as barbaric as it was. Now the law only allows itself the use
certain types of “disciplining”. In the early 18th and 19th century the death
penalty was inflicted in many ways. Some ways were, crucifixion, boiling in oil,
drawing and quartering, impalement, beheading, burning alive, crushing, tearing
asunder, stoning and drowning. In the late 19th century the types of
punishments were limited and only a few of them remained perm .....
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Capital Punishment, Should It Or Should It Not Be Used In Today's Criminal Judging System
Number of words: 1584 | Number of pages: 6.... and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital
Punishment ensures Americans equality for all . The abolitionists also did a
poll which ensured that there was "no support for the view that the death
penalty provides a more effective deterrent to police homicides than alternative
sanctions. Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in
jurisdictions that provide for capital punishment" The highest homicide rates
were also in Death Penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000
people as compared to 5.1 in states without the Death Penalty . It has also
been shown that the .....
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The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
Number of words: 2445 | Number of pages: 9.... T-cells to battle off diseases, delaying puberty in both males and
females, and unhealthy and smaller children born to women who used
marijuana during pregnancy. The
Drug Enforcement
Administration believes that since marijuana is not accepted by any
American health associations, there is no reason to legalize the drug.
They think that the main reason why pro marijuana advocates use the medical
use argument is because the uninformed public can be easily convinced to
support the movement. Simply not enough evidence proves that marijuana can
be used medically (Claim V). Unlike the D.E.A., lobbying groups such as the
Cannabis .....
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