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…were not allowed to vote at all. Speaking your mind against someone with more pull than you could also get you put to death. A death penalty for speaking your mind and presenting new ideas is definitely not democratic. Why did the Greeks leave…

…to seek out what it is that women want most. If he succeeds and finds the answer, he lives, if he fails, he dies. The penalty for rape in the medieval era is death. The king is ready to have the knight put to death when the queen speaks up…

…should be applied. In other words, killing an unborn baby would carry the same penalty as killing a born baby. A baby inside the womb has the same legal status as a baby outside the womb. If you don't believe in the bible there is also the medical argument…

…to the death penalty proposed by Meletus, and many men would have begged for mercy, asked for forgiveness, claimed to repent for their actions, and request leniency. Socrates, though, demonstrates not only his strength in his convictions, but also recognizes…

…as a man with a philosophic mission, the jury was so angered by this offer that it voted by an increased majority for the death penalty. Even when the jury has sentenced him to death, Socrates calmly delivers his final public words, a speculation about what…

…that he gave serious thought and time to the orchestration of the murder because it was performed flawlessly. Montresor was not apprehended or suspected by the police for he went for fifty years without any penalty. On the surface, the reader may assume…

…illustrates the difficulty, if not the impossibility of imposing the death penalty in a fair and impartial manner” and in a life or death matter, results cannot be allowed to chance as it often is.…

…of the killers. In America during this day and age, it is the obligation of the court system to decide whether or not a murderer should be put to death. Most of the time, the criminal is sentenced to a prison term, but when a judge decides to issue the death penalty…

…death penalty by the guillotine. The events that led to his execution were his deep beliefs - the obsession for the truth. This truth was a negative one; nevertheless it was the truth that he was willing to die for. Meursault was condemned to death mostly…

…. Hangings take lots of time to kill. The condemned prisoners suffer more than they should. They are already serving the ultimate penalty, the sentence of death. The executioners should use a method that gets the execution over with in the shortest amount of time…