Death Penalty: Failures Of 3 Main Arguments hume@aol.com (Hume) Newsgroups alt.activism.deathpenalty. Subject Failures of 3 Main Arguments these high-school students, it does notjustify capital punishment for murderers. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/081.html
Extractions: Date: 22 Jun 1997 16:38:53 GMT 22 June, 1997 Murder is unjustified intentional killing. It is not sufficient that there be justification (a sound reason) to kill somebody, the person doing the killing must kill for that reason. Thus, if I should shoot some random person in a driveby shooting, only to have it discovered later that, quite by coincidence, this was somebody who deserved to die, this would not mitigate against the fact that I committed murder. The three most common reasons offered for capital punishment do not justify killing. 1. Specific deterrence: capital punishment is justified to prevent the commission of a future crime. Objection 1: Imagine a psychological test for high school students whereby it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed that crime in the past. The ability to prevent a future crime would be the same in both cases. If it is permissible to kill to prevent a future crime, than we are just as justified in killing those highschool students who fail this test as we are those who have committed murder. Or, in other words, if preventing a future crime does not justify killing these high-school students, it does notjustify capital punishment for murderers. Objection 2: (This is actually a way of rephrasing above), a person being executed to prevent a future crime is, in effect, being punished for a crime that he did not commit. Not only is he being presumed guilty (rather than being presumed innocent unless proved to be guilty), he is being presumed guilty of crime that does not exist.
Amnesty : Death Penalty From a Usenet post to alt.atheism. Pro The threat of the death where the death penalty helps the guilty go free erodes the argument that capital punishment ensures no http://www.ichimusai.org/artiklar/arguments-against-dp.html
Extractions: Site Web Would you like to leave a comment by e-mail to me? Things to consider Links Statements against the death penalty American Civil Liberty Union The increasing danger of executing the innocent Recent cases of innocent or possibly innocent people on death row in the USA. ... The death penalty in Texas: Lethal injustice Death Penalty "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves the entire world blind..." [Search] [Sign guestbook] [Read guestbook] All the men and woman whom I have faced at that final moment, "An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
Death Penalty Links to capital punishmentfocused sites. some flexibility" about capital punishment but that he is alt.activism.death-penalty An emotional, sometimes hate-laced, news group dedicated to the http://goodlight.net/adnob97/htm-cn/deathp.htm
Extractions: Death Penalty U. S. A. Abolition Now is a comprehensive site with news, updates, alerts and an on-line discussion forum for death penalty related issues; offers pages for abolitionist groups and organizations. Govenor Pat Ayaki reports that Jesus is now showing "some flexibility" about capital punishment but that he is still firm in his stand against crucifixion. Yahoo link to those opposing capital punishment Sign the National Petition to End the Death Penalty using their email link. http://web.canlink.com/ocrt/execute.htm Contains a listing of biblical citations - who deserves death and for what. Times have changed, thank God. Also, links to many sites pro and con. http://www.igc.org/justice/issues/death-penalty/ The death penalty is dead wrong! Many links. The Declaration of Life is a statement (print out, sign and have notarized) which states that should you be the victim of a murder you request that the authorities not file or prosecute an action for capital punishment against your murderer. Candidate Pataki pledged to return power to local governments. Govenor Pataki bumped Bronx
PlanetPapers - The Alternative For Death Penalty Completely free essays. papers and reports on all topics. Thousands of studentwritten essays all completely free and online now, New essays daily. debate about the death penalty? The public cannot agree on the effectiveness of the capital punishment laws in the furhter illustrate the alt. of the d.penalty and how that http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3513.php
Extractions: search tips power search -> Jump to: Home Art and Music Biographies Business Creative Writing Film Geography History Literature Shakespeare Miscellaneous Poetry Politics Religion Social Issues What's New Top10 Essays Login or Signup Read User Comments Rate/Comment on this essay Cite this essay: MLA APA Print this essay Index ... Capital Punishment Written by: Tiger Mead Shumway of Nebraska, was convicted of the first degree murder of his employers wife on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death by jury. His last words before his execution were: I am an innocent man. May God forgive everyone who said anything against me. The next year, the victims husband confessed on his deathbed that he [the husband] had murdered his [own] wife (Radelet, Bedau, Putnam 347). There are an uncertain numerous amount of incidents similar to the one depicted above, that have repeatedly occurred throughout the course of history. Two highly distinguishable figures in the area of capital punishment in the United States, Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet, discovered in 1992, at least 140 cases, since 1990, in which innocent persons were sentenced to death (Hook and Kahn 92). In Illinois alone, 12 death row inmates have been cleared and freed since 1987 (Execution Reconsidered). The most conclusive evidence in support of this comes from the surprisingly large numbers of people whose convictions have been overturned and who have been freed from death (Bedau 345). One out of every seven people sentenced to death row are innocent (Civiletti). Thats nearly 15%.
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THE 8TH AMENMDENT & THE DEATH PENALTY THE 8TH AMENDMENT THE death penalty. USE THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS What has the Supreme Court had to say about the death penalty? Has it ever declared capital punishment to be unconstitutional? When? Why? http//www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/po.html alt. In Virginia? http://www.homestead.com/fchsssd/files/THE_8TH_AMENDMENT.htm
Extractions: THE 8 TH USE THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: What has the Supreme Court had to say about the Death Penalty? Has it ever declared capital punishment to be unconstitutional? When? Why? What is the current status of capital punishment today as to the Courts view? http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/history2.html#ConstitutionalityoftheDeathPenaltyinAmerica What is the minimum age for the death penalty according to the Supreme Court? http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/history3.html#Juveniles Use the U.S. map to indicate the age requirement for the states that impose the death penalty. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/juvagelim.html#agechart In Virginia, what offenses are subject to the death penalty? http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/capitaloffenses.html http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-31 Use the U.S. map to indicate the primary method of execution used by each state. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/methods.html#authorized How many executions have taken place this year? What state leads? How many in Virginia? http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/dpicexec02.html
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Dud Arguments About Capital Punishment dud arguments from my experience on the usenet group alt. activism.deathpenalty ,but duds similar to these may Characterizing capital punishment as barbaric http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spragge/duds.html
Extractions: Dud Arguments A "dud argument", in this connection, does not refer to an argument I disagree with, but to an argument that has no basis in logic or which ignores or disrespects such facts as we have available. I have taken these particular dud arguments from my experience on the usenet group "alt. activism.death-penalty", but duds similar to these may crop up in many discussions of this topic (and many others). I have tried to present a balanced view of the "duds" perpetrated by people with all positions on this issue. Characterizing capital punishment as "barbaric. This assumes a level of civilization we have not yet attained. Singling out capital punishment ignores many equally nasty practises, such as imprisoning people against their will, which society uses to control criminals and attempt to discourage crime. A defence of capital punishment based solely on democratic sanction. Democracy and the rule of law entails the right to vote our wishes into law, but it equally entails the right to convince the majority of our fellow citizens the policy they voted for does not work. Our votes may make a policy legal, but they do not make it just or effective; and a living democracy gives us the right (indeed the responsibility) to make this case with respect to any government policy we consider wrong. Attacking opponents as "elitists".
Open Hand: Internet Ethics In the spring of 1995, a participant in the usenet discussion group on capital punishment,alt.activism.deathpenalty, posted an abstract to a selection of the http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spragge/ethics.html
Extractions: I have drawn the first part of these observations from a paper I wrote for a computing and sociology conference in the spring of 1997. Since then, the lively and on-going debate on capital punishment on usenet (alt.activism.death-penalty) has raised a number of other issues of internet ethics. In the spring of 1995, a participant in the usenet discussion group on capital punishment, alt.activism.death-penalty, posted an abstract to a selection of the science groups, concentrating on the statistics groups. In it, he claimed to have co-authored, with myself and two other participants, a statistical study offering "conclusive proof" that capital punishment does not deter crime. This claim had no truth to it; neither I nor the other two people he claimed as "co-authors" had participated in any statistical study of capital punishment, although I had posted a rough statistical summary of the Canadian experience, and another of the people named as "co-authors" of this fictional study had posted an extensive biography of actual studies of the effects of capital punishment. The claims of this fictional abstract provoked comments from statisticians who read the science groups, mostly denouncing the suggestion that any study of social science statistics could produce "conclusive proof" of anything. They also produced angry responses from those of us named as "co-authors".
Criminology Punishment recently, I had taken an indifferent view on capital punishment. held a strong opinionon the death penalty.Sister Helen Women In Crime by Betty alt and Sandra http://law-books.org/Criminology_Punishment.html
Extractions: Home Search High Volume Orders Links ... Technology Law Additional Subjects King Lear Elder Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court Witt New McCalls Cook Book Dale Lowell Morgan ... Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies Featured Books Dead Man Walking I had the pleasure of meeting sister Helen quite a few times, and she was an inspiring woman. I have to admit, that before meeting her I had no interest in reviewing my opinion on the death penelty, but after sitting through a few seminars of hers, i decided to read the book. What I found was an inspiring account of friendship between Helen and the inmates, and Helen and the families of the victims. This book rang with truth. It was very informative as well. After reading the book and meeting... The United States has become the world leader in incarceration of its citizens. As Vivien Stern notes in the last chapter of Invisible Punishment, much of Europe looks at us, wondering what in the world we are doingis the U.S. crazy? Only 15% of people in France think that a 21 year old repeat burglar should be sent to prison at all. Here, such a "repeat offender would routinely be given a 20 year sentence.Yet that is only the beginning of the story. In some communities (a detailed essay on...
"hello" costs more than incarceration Author M. Lucas Email vsd76@hotmail.com Date 1998/10/07Forums alt.activism.deathpenalty capital punishment COSTS MORE THAN http://www.physics.niu.edu/~morphis/death_costs.html
Extractions: 63. Greenhouse, "Judicial Panel Urges Limits on Appeals by Death Row Inmates," The New York Times, Sept. 22, 1989. 64. See Tabak, in Seton Hall Law Review (1996); Yackel, in Buffalo Law Review (1996); Coyle, in National Law Journal (May 20 1996); and the Panel Discussion in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (1996). 65. Carol Castenada, "Death Penalty Centers Losing Support Funds," USA Today, Oct. 24, 1995, p. 38; Coyle, in National Law Journal (Sept. 18, 1995 and Jan. 15, 1996).
Alt.muslim - Your Muslim News Community Dying for a Consensus on capital punishment. which the death penalty is an appropriatepunishment for a difficult that (the likelihood of a death sentence) is http://www.altmuslim.com/islam_comments.php?id=440_0_17_0_C
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Extractions: ASHINGTON, Jan. 26 =97 The = Supreme Court agreed=20 Monday to decide whether the Constitution prohibits the death = penalty for=20 crimes committed at the age of 16 or 17. With capital punishment for juvenile offenders falling rapidly = into=20 disuse across most of the country =97 only two such death = sentences were=20 imposed last year and jurors in Virginia rejected the death = penalty for=20 Lee Malvo, the teenage sniper whom they convicted of murder =97 = the justices=20 will consider whether there is now a national consensus of the = sort the=20 court discerned two years ago when it prohibited the execution of = mentally=20 retarded defendants. The outcome is uncertain. Opponents of the death penalty have = pressed=20 the court for several years to reconsider a 1989 decision that = upheld=20 capital punishment for older teenagers; a decision in 1988 struck = down the=20 death penalty for those age 15 and younger. Four justices =97 John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth = Bader=20 Ginsburg, and Stephen G. Breyer =97 have made clear their = opposition to the=20 death penalty for 16- and 17-year-olds, calling it "inconsistent = with=20 evolving standards of decency in a civilized society" when they = dissented=20 in 2002 from the court's refusal to take up the issue.
Death Penalty - Other Resources (Ohio ESL) Google group search capital punishment . Google group search deathpenalty . newsgroup alt.activism.deathpenalty. HOME BACK http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/project/penalty/net.html
Extractions: Ohio University Ohio ESL English Death Penalty Each page is about the death penalty. Don't forget to use our collection of topic directories to find more. Pollak Library Research Guide Santa Fe CC Debate Britannica (Ohio U only) About.com Google Lycos Yahoo ... Internet Resources Select the topics below to search various on-line database for key words and phrases. Don't forget to use our collection of Search Tools to find more AltaVista US Supreme Court Decisions Google IxQuick ... Internet Resources You may want to check our list of polling data sites in General Social Survey Clark County DA: Public Opinion Public Agenda Interesting survey results show contradictions in Americans' views: Arguments for / against Imposed enough / Innocents executed? Support for death penalty / Death penalty or life in prison? Deterrent? ... Internet Resources Don't forget our collection of News Search Tools to find more.
Extractions: The Ohio Supreme Court has cleared the way for the March 3 execution of murderer Wilford Berry. Berry is often referred to as "the volunteer" because he wants to waive the legal appeals to his conviction and death sentence. While the federal courts may yet intervene, the approaching execution date has brought the death penalty back into the public mind. Ohio has not executed anyone since 1963. Among other reasons, the case is important because it causes us to reflect on the arguments at the heart of the death penalty debate. Opponents of Berrys execution contend that Berry is "sick"that he is incapable of making responsible decisions, and that therefore the courts ought not hold him accountable either for his crimes or for the choices he makes as a criminal defendant. Such arguments reflect a line of thinking in criminal justice that became dominant in the 1960s and 1970s. Liberal intellectuals and other elites became convinced that crime is not the fault of criminals. Instead, they argued, crime is the consequence of mental illness, or adverse socio-economic circumstances, or both. Since these conditions essentially force criminals to commit crimes, since criminals have no real freedom to choose their actions, then society ought not punish. Instead, society owes it to criminals to "treat" or "cure" what is really a disease.
Internships leads the movement to abolish capital punishment, developing strategic lawmakers andthe antideath penalty movement. ac=47639 border= 0 alt= WebSTAT - Free http://www.ncadp.org/html/internships.html
Extractions: Thank you for your interest in the NCADP Fall internship program. The fall selection process is in full gear. Former Illinois Governor George Ryans historic and courageous decision to commute and pardon the sentences of men and women on Illinois death row and recent U.S. Supreme Court cases have created national and international momentum for abolition and death penalty reform. As a result, this fall promises to be an exciting and rewarding experience for interns.
ERUUF's Death Penalty Abolition Web Site the death penalty. Feel like discussing your opinions with the world? alt.prisonsnewsgroup (longstanding website where prison reform and capital punishment http://www.eruuf.org/capital_punishment.htm
Extractions: This website is to serve you by gathering information for you to disseminate and offer you a chance to interact with the on-line community about the Death Penalty. Sister Helen Prejean's website Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Death Penalty Information Center The Moratorium Campaign ... Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Feel like discussing your opinions with the world? alt.prisons newsgroup (longstanding website where prison reform and capital punishment are discussed) America's Debate (capital punishment discussion)
MPR: Archive For Michael Khoo of death penalty to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is asking legislators to let Minnesotavoters decide whether the state should reintroduce capital punishment http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/search/author/author_collection.php?
MPR: Archive For February 2004 Pawlenty announced in December that he supports capital punishment for extreme casesof first degree murder. Critics say the death penalty doesn t deter crime http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/search/date/month_collection.php?mon
