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Papers on Legal Issues
The Need For Capital Punishment
Number of words: 773 | Number of pages: 3.... appeal process. Once all the appeals have failed, it soon is time,
and you will be moved to a holding cell. There you will be offered your final
mean, of your choice. Your last visitors arrive, first your lawyer, your family
members and at last a preist who prays with you. You take your final glance
around the room, as you are lead to another room close by, the execution room.
A few prison officials are present to witness your execution. In a matter of
moments it's over.
You could have been Gary Gilmore, Ted Bundy or Charles Brooks, all
famous serial killers. Maybe you were the first women to die by lethel
injec .....
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Weed
Number of words: 819 | Number of pages: 3.... thousand years,
but until 500~ AD its use as a mind-altering drug was almost solely confined in
India. The drug and its uses reached the Middle and Near East during the next
several centuries, and then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America
and the Caribbean, and finally entered the United States in the early decades of
this century. Marijuana can even be used as "Biomass" fuel, where the pulp
(hurd) of the hemp plant can be burned as is or processed into charcoal,
methanol, methane, or gasoline. This process is called destructive distillation,
or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called 'biomass' f .....
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R.I.C.O
Number of words: 1807 | Number of pages: 7.... was to curb the apparently increasing entry of organized crime into the legitimate business world. (Miller and Jentz 1998).
G.R. Blakley (1980) who helped draft RICO, takes the position that while broad usage may or may not have been Congress’ intent (he believes it was), certainly it was his. RICO was not created to apply “only to organized crime in the classic ‘mobster’ sense”. In it’s deliberations Congress recognized that it would be difficult if not constitutionally impossible to narrowly limit RICO to traditional crime such as the La Cosa Nostra (mafia). If persons or enterprises were involved in the same types .....
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Illegial Aliens
Number of words: 600 | Number of pages: 3.... a large
Pepsi, filled with ice, and brimming with tiny bubbles popping at the
surface. . . But no!! the cashier can only say, "Thank you, come again" in
a bad accent. You've probably also taken an extensive trip once or twice
along a barren interstate. But before leaving, you want to make sure your
family doesn't starve on the journey. So you drive through at McDonalds,
and order 2 big macs with cheese, 2 quarter pounders with cheese, 2
cheeseburgers with cheese, a couple large cokes, and a happy meal for the
little ones. Half-way to nowhere, you are being consumed with a primal urge
to eat. And to your chagrin, you open the bag .....
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The Death Punishment
Number of words: 526 | Number of pages: 2.... of capital murder.
Statistically this has occurred; however, given the lengthy appeals
process, all but few ultimately die, innocent or guilty. The above
statistic applies to all crimes, from theft to kidnaping. Should no one
be punished because of shortcomings in the judicial system? Obviously,
society could not function within a system devoid of law enforcement,
because where there is no law, there is chaos.
Some argue that death is too good for capital offenders. This position
favors inhumane and unlawful disciplinary actions like torture and life
imprisonment. Though some think it not harsh enough, the death .....
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The Caning Punishment Issue
Number of words: 377 | Number of pages: 2.... set it right but it
would help them feel a little better. This would also make a very big
impression on me. If I knew I could get a very bad lashing for doing
something wrong, I would not do it. With the growing crime rate some
different actions have to be taken. What we are doing now is not working
very well. Corporeal punishment seems like a good place to start. It is
a deterrent step which we could take without expanding the use of the death
penalty.
Corporeal punishment instituted to a limited degree, not to the
level they have in Singapore, would lower crime. Singapore has a $316 fine
for chewing gum which is .....
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Legalizing Marijuana
Number of words: 792 | Number of pages: 3.... than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions against the use of marijuana for " legitiment medical use." City council women Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana.; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis.
Many agencies which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments argue that marijuana shouldn't be legali .....
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The Death Penalty Should Continue To Be Used In The U.S.
Number of words: 1290 | Number of pages: 5.... and unfair.
These people who oppose it say that all human life has the right to be respected.
All human life does have the right to be respected but there is a point when
that right can be lost, if someone takes the life of another human being then
they have given up that right. Another claim the opposers to the death penalty
make is that the death penalty encourages more murders because if people see the
authority taking someone's life, then they will think they can do it too. This
is not true, if criminals see that more and more people are getting the death
penalty, this will cause them to think their actions over. The Unit .....
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The Brady Law
Number of words: 429 | Number of pages: 2.... This is a valid argument in less densely
populated areas of the country where doing checks would bring manpower to a
below minimum level. This argument is not valid for large cities, however,
because it is needed more there than anywhere else in the country. In
large cities there are many more police officers and they can afford to put
a few on duty doing these checks. In large cities you can easily blend in
because of its size. Places like Montana and Arizona don't necessarily
need to run checks on every person, but ones they have not seen before in
their small community or ones that look suspicious should be checked out. .....
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Gun Control
Number of words: 1248 | Number of pages: 5.... of gun rights say that the amendment states that The
Second Amendment was never intended as a gun license for the entire
American populace. As originally drafted—and as consistently interpreted by
the courts for more than a century—the Amendment does not grant any blanket
right to own a gun nor does it stand in the way of rational, effective gun
control. They also say that the idea of gun ownership as an American
Birthright is just a myth. However, this is not true. The amendment
states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Clearly stated,
this says that the right of people to have and use guns shall not .....
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