Capital Punishment cp.html Human Rights Death Penalty http//www.derechos.org/dp/ This linkssiteconnects to several websites both pro and con related to capital punishment. http://eduscapes.com/42explore/capunish.htm
Extractions: Special Note: This site is intended to be educational. However, some of the images and information included in this project may be disturbing, especially for younger learners. While we encourage all to learn, we hope that parents and teachers will be there to help explain events and guide young learners through the complexities behind what they may read and see. Adults should preview sites before providing access to younger children. Easier - Capital punishment is the penalty or sentence of death for committing a crime. Harder - Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, most executions in the United States have resulted from murder convictions. However, the sentence of death has been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, and treason. People disagree about whether capital punishment is moral or if it is effective in discouraging crime. Many oppose the death penalty because they consider it cruel. Critics also believe that there is a risk of executing mistakenly convicted people. Supporters of the death penalty believe that in some instances, people who take another human life deserve to forfeit their own lives. Many supporters also argue that the threat of death discourages crime.
Bishop's Statement U.S. Catholic Bishops' Statement on capital punishment. Approved by the U.S. Bishops in November 1980. INTRODUCTION http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/bishopstate.html
Extractions: var loc = "../../"; Approved by the U.S. Bishops in November 1980 INTRODUCTION In 1974, out of a commitment to the value and dignity of human life, the U.S. Catholic Conference, by a substantial majority, voted to declare its opposition to capital punishment. As a former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops pointed out in 1977, the issue of capital punishment involves both "profound legal and political questions" as well as "important moral and religious issues."(1) And so we find that this issue continues to provoke public controversy and to raise moral questions that trouble many. This is particularly true in the aftermath of widely publicized executions in Utah and Florida and as a result of public realization that there are now over 500 persons awaiting execution in various prisons in our country. The resumption of capital punishment after a long moratorium, which began in 1967, is the result of a series of decisions by the United States Supreme Court. In the first of these decisions, Furman v. Georgia
Capitalpunishment.htm Great information on the issues of pro and anti death penalty views. Death PenaltyInformation. Crimestrike! A Primer capital punishment in the United States! http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/capitalpunishment.htm
Extractions: DeathPenalty.Net : Excellent site with loads of information. DEATH PENALTY : This has some good information on both sides of the issue. UAA Justice Center: Focus on the Death Penalty : This site has a lot of good material. Capital Punishment: Life or Death? : A class created web page presenting both sides of the argument. Death Penalty Information Center : The DeathPenalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to
The Death Penalty Debate Provides a number of resources which present both sides of the death penalty debate in the U.S., including law enforcement and religious views. links to capital punishment sites, and a chronology http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/debate.html
Extractions: Introducing the Debate provides a number of resources which present both sides of the death penalty debate in the U.S. Views of law enforcement officers , as shown in a national poll of police executives and a resolution from a national police organization, are split on the death penalty. A selection of resources indicating positions on the death penalty from a religious perspective include links to biblical citations and statements of officials, organizations, and individual adherents of different religious traditions, including Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam. The debate on capital punishment embraces many more specific issues, such as cost, inequities in the justice system, etc.; resources giving arguments on specific points are included on the Specific Issues page.
Death Penalty -- GovSpot Issues Death Penalty Resources Death Penalty Info Read pro and con arguments, access dataon capital punishment for every state and learn about methods of execution. http://www.govspot.com/issues/deathpenalty.htm
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Capital Punishment And The Bible whether a case can be made either pro or con. All conarguments below are from J.Gordon Melton s The Churches Speak on capital punishment, a helpful http://www.tektonics.org/cappun.html
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Capital Punishment The Death Penalty, Pro and Con Guide picks. to reconcile with one another; with separatelists of death penalty statistics and capital punishment and race http://crime.about.com/cs/thedeathpenalty/
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Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Law - MegaLaw.com of Justice, Dec. 1997 Full Report in PDF format; capital PunishmentPro and Con; Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; http://www.megalaw.com/top/deathpenalty.php
Extractions: DEATH PENALTY / CAPITAL PUNISHMENT LAW Home Legal Research Topic Index > Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Law Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Law Decisions Federal Crimes Carrying the Death Penalty Congressional, Cabinet, and Supreme Court Assassination, or Kidnapping Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 351 Genocide - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1091 Hostage Taking Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1203 Kidnapping Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1201
Homework Center - Social Issues Penalty Information High School Curriculum http//deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/ Thissite presents information about pro and con capital punishment, the stages of http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
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Opinion:Pro & Con: Capital Punishment Pro Con capital punishment Matt W., Sherburne, NY. I would like to say a few wordsto everyone out there about a subject that has troubled me for a long time http://www.teenink.com/Past/1997/9040.html
Extractions: In our society, it is all too possible for someone to go on a killing spree, slaughter ten innocent people, and get a fifteen-year sentence, with time off for good behavior, and parole in seven years. That is wrong. If you kill someone and are convicted in a trial by a jury of your peers, you should die. Or consider this. If you are convicted of a crime, and sentenced to death, you'll spend ridiculous amounts of time on Death Row, awaiting your turn to ride the lightning. It is also possible to make appeal after appeal, prolonging your life while the corpse of your victim rots. Perhaps the most famous example is Ted Bundy who spent years on Death Row narrowly escaping his execution by offering to reveal more details of his crimes.
Opinion:Pro & Con: Capital Punishment Pro Con capital punishment Amanda S., Stoughton, MA. After the heinous murderof tenyear-old Jeffrey Curley, the state of Massachusetts gave new thought to http://www.teenink.com/Past/1997/9041.html
Extractions: "There is no credible scientific research that supports the contention that the threat or use of the death penalty is or has been a deterrent to homicide," says a report by Michael L. Radlet and Ronald L. Akers, lawyers and researchers on the death penalty. This report also states that 80% of the experts in criminology agree that the death penalty is not an effective way to reduce crime. So, if there is no concrete proof that the death penalty is effective, why are 70 % of the people in favor of it? The only answer is vengeance. People argue that the murderers should get what they deserve, but is this right? The death penalty may only be an excuse for the public to take its anger out in a legal way. Crime does need to be reduced; there is no question about that. Perhaps punishing killers with a life sentence with no parole is a better solution. In a way, that is almost like the death penalty, except the person is slowly killed through the course of many years instead of swiftly killed in seconds. ?
Capital Punishment capital punishment in Missouri; Prisoners advocate site; Death Penalty Net Information ProDeath Penalty Links - Links categorized pro and con and related http://www.lafayettehighschool.org/socialstudies/Main Dept Folder/Class Hotlinks
Extractions: Click "Back" to return to this page Death Penalty Information and Resources - Collective of pertinent resources include news articles and reports, book and film catalogs and downloadable case law opinions. Death Penalty Topics and Related Resources Death Penalty Pros and Cons - Links to resources Pro death penalty site - Resources, papers, interviews (a link from previous page Justice Center Web Site: Focus on the Death Penalty-University of Alaska Anchorage - rich list of annotated links-pro and con sites, debate, death row sites, news, other death penalty link collections. The specific issues links collections looks Especially rich site-maybe a jumping off point for some topic choice ideas. Both the international and death row links were just updated in March. Specific Inmates' Stories
Is Capital Punishment Biblical? related sites Apologetics Index on capital punishment. What does the Bible reallysay? I am sure you get lots of email pro and con, but I d like to add one http://watkins.gospelcom.net/capital.htm
Extractions: If we use the Old Testament as support for capital punishmentshouldn't we support execution for all offenses it lists as capital? Under the Old Testament law, murder (Numbers 35:16) and rape (Deuteronomy 22:25) were in fact grounds for execution. However to be consistentif we use the Old Testament as support for capital punishmentshouldn't we support execution for all offenses it lists as capital Under New Testament grace, didn't Christ take our "capital punishment" required under the Law? "When we were utterly helpless with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for him. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since by his blood he did all this for us as sinners, how much more will he do for us now that he has declared us not guilty? Now he will save us from all of God's wrath to come" (Romans 5:6, 8-9). "Well then, are God laws and God's promises against each other? Of course not! If we could be saved by the laws, then God would not have had to give us a different way to get out of the grip of sinfor the Scriptures insist we are all its prisoners. The only way out is through faith in Jesus Christ; the way of escape is open to all who believe in him" (Galatians 3:21-22).
Homework Help--Social Issues--Death Penalty/Capital Punishment Scroll down to find links to pro and con punishment and the Death Penalty Scrolldown for the legal and historical context of capital punishment in Washington http://www.kcls.org/hh/deathpenalty.cfm
Capital Punishment and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. ofcategorized links facts, law, websites pro and con, people on http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/capital.htm
Extractions: A major site opposed to capital punishment. "The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue." Death Penalty Links
Pro Capital Punishment Page site by JFA (Justice for All) which endorses capital punishment. would require prosecutorsto press for capital charges in is packed with links both pro and con http://www.wesleylowe.com/cp.html
Extractions: before you leave. It's funny because it's true! There are no words to describe what happened on that tragic day. Many innocent Americans have suffered the attack of terrorists and I would like to ask you to take a moment and ask for the healing of all of those who survived and for all of those who did not. Let us ask God for them to be safe on His Loving Arms. Bombs and destruction might seem big to our eyes, but much stronger is our love; the love that God has placed in our hearts. Let us never forget that our prayers will be heard and that He will answer. "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my influence, that Your hand would be with me, Your servant, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted His favored child the request. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 Introduction Contact Information Putting to death people judged to have committed certain extremely heinous crimes is a practice of ancient standing, but in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, it has become a very controversial issue. Changing views on this difficult issue and many legal challenges to capital punishment working their way through the courts resulted in a halt to executions in the United States in 1967. Eventually, the Supreme Court placed a moratorium on capital punishment in 1972 but later upheld it in 1977, with certain conditions.
CJBS: Capital Punishment The chi square for Argument (pro or con) x Sentence The majority of participantswho received arguments supporting capital punishment chose the death http://www.cpa.ca/ogloff.htm
Extractions: Abstract A lthough the Parliament of Canada abolished the death penalty as a sentencing option in 1976 (Amnesty International, 1987), a majority of Canadians (approximately 65-75%) have indicated that they would support a return of the death penalty (Reid, 1987). Furthermore, calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty by politicians and others occur frequently. As a result of the public's apparent support for capital punishment, and the possibility of its return, it is important to continue studying factors that influence people's attitudes regarding the death penalty.
Capital Punishment capital punishment . Six minutes later, Harris was pronounced dead. 1.Much controversy has raged around the question of capital punishment. http://www.hendersonchurchofchrist.org/articles/mike15.htm
Extractions: "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT" In 1986, Kenneth B. Harris, a crack cocaine addict had entered Lisa Haacks apartment, raped and choked her, and then spent an hour drowning her in her bathtub. Now, he lay strapped to a gurney in a small powder-blue room in the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, his feet lashed together and his muscular arms extended as if on a crucifix. Harris showed no fear. He turned his head to the side to smile and nod at his audience. With the warden at his head and the priest chaplain at his feet, Harris apologized to both families for the pain he caused them. Then he told the warden he was ready to die. Harris closed his eyes and expelled his last breath in two loud gasps through trembling lips. Six minutes later, Harris was pronounced dead. Much controversy has raged around the question of capital punishment. On one hand it has been hailed as divinely instituted and socially necessary. On the other hand it has been labeled as barbaric and unchristian. Is capital punishment ever a morally justifiable form of criminal punishment? Is the death penalty effective in deterring crime? Is permanently incapacitating an offender the best way to protect the society? The United States is one of the few industrialized countries that still retains capital punishment. Most countries in Europe have prohibited it, while it remains in force in some Asian countries. Many Third world countries and Islamic republics apply the death penalty for a variety of crimes, not just for murder. In poll after poll, more than 70 percent of Americans say they support the death penalty, a figure that has remained consistent for at least the past decade.
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