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…percent of the crime in the United States is committed by five percent of the population. This means that when criminals are "rehabilitated" and are set free or paroled, that many, if not most, of them will again break the law. If the violent offenders against…

…which insures the protection of those facing capital punishment. Among the safeguards are: 1. Capital punishment may be imposed only for a crime for which the death penalty is prescribe by law at the time of its commission. 2. Persons below…

…penalty is very effective at preventing some crime by intimidating possible offenders. Also, many politicians like to tout the successful deterrent capabilities of capital punishment. Unfortunately, there is virtually no criminologist today that agrees…

…they are the most affected by the new gun laws. Most gun owners feel that they are being punished for what criminals do. They feel that the new gun laws will have little or no affect on the crime rate, it will just increase the hassle for the legal gun owners…

…crime before this law went into effect were not aware of this punishment, therefore this law in not constitutional. Because they are not aware, they could not have considered the consequences of this punishment. And Megan's Law is a punishment, very much…

…Justice can not be served until the debate on capital punishment is resolved and all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the best way to stop crime completely. "The bottom line is, one method of execution is just as brutal…

…from it. Hester Prynne, the main character in the novel, suffers a variety of types of punishment for the crime of adultery she committed. She faces such punishment as public humiliation from wearing the symbol 'A' as to represent her crime, dealing…

…such noble phrases as recently as 1989, in Texas v. Johnson. Unfortunately these idealistic principles seem to have been abandoned during Wisconsin v. Mitchell. Clearly, Mitchell's act of assaulting another human is a punishable crime, and no one could…

…can't fight fire with fire. Now I know that there is a difference between violence and law enforcement, or punishment. Law enforcement and punishment is to crime as water is to fire, where fire fighters spray water on a burning building with such force…

…is justifiable. Racism is no stranger to capital punishment. The death penalty wants to save as many white people as it can, and kill as many black people as possible. Violence begets violence, and murder begets murder. The violent crimes that capital punishment…