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…in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 41 percent of the 41,945 total traffic fatalities" (MADD, 2003). The issue of harsher penalties for convicted criminals is a topic of heated debate…

…a good times with his friends and paid the ultimate penalty, death. Rusty Vansant was a victim of alcohol and no one could ever bring him back to the place that he would have wanted to be today. He left many friends and loved ones in agony over his death…

…of those who had questionable morals. The punishments began with the death of Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan’s lover. Her death was a sentence for selling her soul for the love of money. It was also a penalization for Tom, since he lost his mistress when Myrtle…

…Capital punishment has been existent in many societies for a long time now. It means to punish by the death penalty. Many improvements and methods had been made to change these punishments in order to make it seem more humane, as it had been deemed…

…undergoes emotional punishment during his penalty for defying Zeus. When Hermes comes and delivers Zeus' message to Prometheus, Prometheus replies: "You have told me...nothing that I did not know already" (Warner 7). Prometheus refuses to reveal the secret…

…to be mad so that he can be sent back home - unfortunately the penalty for pretending to be mad is death by firing squad, so that plan ends in failure. Melchett sends Darling to the trench to join them for the final push. Even George realises, in a fit…

…. It is simply wrong to assert that abortion would be totally legal if men as well as women got pregnant; the fact is that today punish men who kill a pre-viability fetus with the same penalties given to murderers. Should a woman be physically restrained so she…

…and this power rested with the government. According to Locke, "Political power I take to be the right of making laws, with the penalty of death, and consequently al less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force…

…that the death penalty was abolished gave the two men the right to live and allowed them a second chance to show their innocence. In conclusion, both men protested their innocence repeatedly but were ignored. The only people that stood by them to make sure…

…prosecuted are black (Carter 290+.). Only four of the first thirty-seven death penalty prosecutions from the Anti-Drug Abuse Act have been white (Carter 290+.). Unbalanced sentencing, besides affecting black people wrongly, can also effect poor people wrongly…