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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the governmental use of execution as punishment for a crime often called a capital offense or a capital crime. | | | In most places that practice capital punishment today, the death penalty is reserved as a punishment for certain murders, espionage, or treason or part of military justice. | | | Communal punishment for wrongdoing generally included compensation by the wrongdoer, corporal punishment, shunning, banishment and execution. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
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| | Close Up Foundation Civics Education Capital Punishment |
| | This was followed by an unofficial capital punishment moratorium among the states while the federal courts examined the constitutionality of various state death penalty statutes. | | | Capital punishment has also remained a perennial "hot button" issue; when the average person is asked if he or she supports the death penalty, that person is likely to give a definitive yes or no answer. | | | Federal Review of State Court Decisions This was a watershed period in the history of capital punishment in the United States. |
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http://www.closeup.org/punish.htm
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| | Catholic Social Teaching -- capital punishment |
| | We believe that the forms of punishment must be determined with a view to the protection of society and its members and to the reformation of the criminal and his reintegration into society (which may not be possible in certain cases). | | | With respect to the difficulties inherent in capital punishment, we note first that infliction of the death penalty extinguishes possibilities for reform and rehabilitation for the person executed as well as the opportunity for the criminal to make some creative compensation for the evil he or she has done. | | | The third justifying purpose for punishment is retribution or the restoration of the order of justice which has been violated by the action of the criminal. |
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http://www.osjspm.org/cst/cappun.htm
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| | Capital Punishment - Probe Ministries |
| | Capital punishment is warranted due to the sanctity of life. | | | Opponents of capital punishment who accuse the government of committing murder by implementing the death penalty fail to see the irony of using Exodus 20 to define murder but ignoring Exodus 21, which specifically teaches that government is to punish the murderer. | | | Opponents of capital punishment argue that it is not a deterrent, because in some states where capital punishment is allowed the crime rate goes up. |
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http://www.probe.org/content/view/68/91
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| | Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Law - MegaLaw.com |
| | Capital Punishment 1999 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 2000 | | | Capital Punishment 1998 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1999 | | | Capital Punishment 1997 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1998 |
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| | The Death Penalty |
| | After the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, however, and because of court decisions such as Gideon v. | | | The Supreme Court’s liberal bent culminated when the high court struck down capital punishment in 1972, on the ground it was cruel and unusual punishment as then applied. | | | As the United States embraces capital punishment more and more fervently -- 38 states have reinstated the death penalty -- the rest of the Western world has largely chosen to eschew the death penalty. |
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http://crimemagazine.com/cp101.htm
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| | Salt of the Earth: capital punishment statistics |
| | Capital cases are the costliest of criminal cases. | | | There were 98 executions in the United States in 1999; the highest number since the reinstatement of capital punishment. | | | Capital Punishment Quiz : Amnesty International has created an online quiz to bolster society's knowledge of the death penalty. |
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http://salt.claretianpubs.org/stats/capitalpun/capitalp.html
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | For example, "Capital punishment may be imposed only when guilt is determined by clear and convincing evidence leaving no room for an alternative explanation of the facts", "Anyone sentenced to death shall receive the right to appeal to a court of higher jurisdiction", etc. | | | Suppose there is no death penalty in a state and life imprisonment without parole is the maximum punishment. | | | Hugo Adam Bedau in his article, "Capital Punishment and Social Defense" mentions, "Crimes can be deterred only by making would-be criminals frightened of being arrested, convicted, and punished for crimesand " (301). |
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http://www.bridgeport.edu/~darmri/capital.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Capital Punishment (Death Penalty) |
| | The court which prescribed this penalty was the Court of the Areopagus. | | | The traditional method of capital punishment in England has been by hanging the criminal by the neck until dead, although during the Middle Ages beheading was customary. | | | The court was not invested with discretionary power in awarding punishment, since Demosthenes says that the law determined this according to the nature of the crime. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12565a.htm
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| | CJBS: Capital Punishment |
| | Included in the anti-capital punishment defense were arguments that the death penalty is not a deterrent, is morally offensive and an archaic form of punishment. | | | In 1972, the United States Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as it was then being administered, was being applied in an arbitrary and capricious manner which constituted cruel and unusual punishment (Furman v Georgia, 1972). | | | Participants were asked to imagine that they lived in a jurisdiction in which the death penalty was a legal punishment, and that they were serving on a jury in the penalty phase of a capital trial. |
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http://www.cpa.ca/ogloff.htm
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| | What About Capital Punishment? |
| | Capital punishment is meant to be a deterrent to crime, specifically murder. | | | This has been documented in the U.S. between the years 1967-1984.2 During these years, capital punishment was abolished in most states and then reinstated with new guidelines. | | | The Bible gives qualifications about capital punishment - and one of them is that at least two eye witnesses must testify against the accused. |
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http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0131_Capital_Punishment.html
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| | John Stuart Mill, Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment |
| | Flogging--a most objectionable punishment in ordinary cases, but a particularly appropriate one for crimes of brutality, especially crimes against women--we would not hear of, except, to be sure, in the case of garotters, for whose peculiar benefit we reestablished it in a hurry, immediately after a Member of Parliament had been garrotted. | | | The failure of capital punishment in cases of theft is easily accounted for; the thief did not believe that it would be inflicted. | | | Even that which is the greatest objection to capital punishment, the impossibility of correcting an error once committed, must make, and does make, juries and Judges more careful in forming their opinion, and more jealous in their scrutiny of the evidence. |
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http://ethics.acusd.edu/Mill.html
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| | Capital Punishment : Death penalty - News updates and research resources on capital punishment human rights abuses |
| | After examining every capital punishment case passing through the appeal courts between 1973 and 1995 its lawyers found that seven out of 10 death sentences were reversed because of serious error in the original trials. | | | In light of 13 documented wrongful convictions in Illinois capital cases in recent years, the Project is dedicated to promoting informed public dialogue on whether the death penalty should be reformed or terminated. | | | The Illinois Death Penalty Education Project is a nonpartisan organization committed to correcting potentially fatal flaws in the state's administration of capital punishment. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d07.html
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | The most compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of its actual administration in our society. | | | One of the strongest arguments right now against capital punishment is that we are too incompetent to carry it out. | | | Then we will debate with you as to whether capital punishment is in principle necessary, fitting, and right or whether a humane society will find non-lethal alternatives to protect citizens from persistently violent criminals. |
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/cappun.htm
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| | The Death Penalty Debate |
| | 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. | | | Kansas provides the death penalty in cases of capital murder given one of seven aggravating circumstances; persons determined to be mentally retarded are excluded from capital sentencing. | | | Despite capital punishment having been abolished in Canada 20 years ago, the majority of Canadians continue to favour the death penalty as a sentencing option. |
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http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/debate.html
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| | Pro Capital Punishment Page |
| | The states that have capital punishment are compelled to have it due to their higher crime rates, not the other way around. | | | Eventually, the Supreme Court placed a moratorium on capital punishment in 1972 but later upheld it in 1977, with certain conditions. | | | 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. |
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http://www.wesleylowe.com/cp.html
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| | Capital Punishment: Life or Death? |
| | There was a period from 1972 to 1976 that capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. | | | Cruel and unusual punishment (violation of the 8th amendment) | | | Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed.The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/spring/cap/group1.htm
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| | The Economics of Capital Punishment |
| | The belief that the death penalty deters capital crimes, to a greater degree than the alternatives, can be the only rational argument in support of capital punishment. | | | There is no clear empirical evidence to support the contention that capital punishment has any deterrent effect in the commission of the crime of murder. | | | According to one definition of efficiency in society: a state in which no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off, capital punishment fails the test. |
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | With capital punishment it is obviously too late for the State to repair the damage done. | | | The Church has upheld this right of the State to inflict capital punishment. | | | For centuries the State has used capital punishment. |
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http://www.monksofadoration.org/capital.html
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | I also agree (with Bidinotto...and Smith?) that capital punishment should be utilized (if used at all) in the interests of justice for individual victims and not for some abstract "social" good. | | | Moral retribution would also be appropriately added to the mix, i.e., reflecting back to the criminal some punishment appropriate to the level of damage he inflicted upon the victim; not letting him "get away with it." This might be capital punishment or maybe life in prison. | | | One can choose to act counter to these requirements even if we cannot choose to have someone else think for us. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Capital_Punishment.html
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| | The Ethics Site. Abortion, Euthanasia, Death Penalty, Bioethics, Kant, Aristotle, relativism |
| | Argues that the most attractive and plausible justifications for punishment -- whether they appeal to desert, or to deterrence, or to moral expression and education -- all actually recommend a system of legal reparations that is distinct from, and in crucial respects preferable to, a system of punishment | | | 473-502, who raises a number of objections to capital punishment, not because it is capital, but because it is punishment. | | | Geoff Sayre-McCord, "Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment" |
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http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/deathpenalty
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| | WebQuest |
| | Gives the definition of capital punishment, moral concerns, alternative to capital punishment, public opinion, Court decisions, race, gender, and class statistics, Pro and Con capital Punishment, and other facts. | | | This document by the Justice For All Organization outlines the procedures necessary in reaching a death sentence. | | | types of crimes committed by people given the death penalty, and arguments for and against capital punishment. |
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| | Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Moral Debates |
| | In what was probably the most detailed investigation of capital convictions in the United States, a study released in June 2000 out of the Columbia University Justice Project found that nearly 7 out of 10 of death penalty verdicts made between 1973 and 1995 which were appealed were thrown out. | | | Congress's 1993 crime bill extended the death penalty to an additional 47 Federal crimes, authorizing the death penalty for 15 Federal crimes previously punishable by life in prison. | | | A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 is now available for download. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-5.html
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| | 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. | | | NB A major site opposed to capital punishment. | | | Coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and resources they need to become effective advocates for abolition." |
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http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/capital.htm
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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment, 1999 |
| | Trends in the number of executions and the number of persons under sentence of death are available from the Capital Punishment section of Key Facts at a Glance. | | | Historical tables present executions since 1930 and sentencing since 1973. | | | The report summarizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 1999. |
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| | Capital Punishment |
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| | USCCB - Capital Punishment |
| | Please see the USCCB Secretariat for Social Development and World Peace for the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on Capital Punishment. | | | The Gospel of Life and the Sentence of Death: Catholic Teaching on Capital Punishment, by Rev. Augustine Judd, 2000 | | | Justice, Mercy and Capital Punishment by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. |
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| | Amazon.com: Capital Punishment: Music: Big Punisher |
| | Big Pun's hit "Still Not a Player" is, of course, included here, and while its nasty Bronx groove sets the tone for much of the 24-song set, the big man also pays his respects to the Big Apple's other boroughs on "Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy"). | | | On this much-anticipated full-length debut, Christopher "Big Punisher" Rios shows he's capable of competing in both arenas, waxing as intelligent as can be on rhymes like "Super Lyrical" (where he's joined by the Roots' always provocative Black Thought) and "Parental Discretion" (a duet with Busta Rhymes). | | | But in the mid '90s, artists of a certain heft broke free of that stereotype and asserted themselves as powerful in both muscle and mind. |
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