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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Violence and the word by Robert Cover and Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Cumus In his essay, Reflections on the Guillotine, Albert Cumus is explicit on the need to abolish the death penalty as a mode of punishment for crimes.... The irony of this situation is compounded by the statistics, proving that capital punishment does not necessarily reduce the occurrence of crime.... 19) Both writers argue for the discontinuation of capital punishment....
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Another key reason why capital punishment like execution is being discussed and discouraged is the risk of convicting an innocent person.... In support of this, a pro-capital punishment group led by Kent Scheidegger argues that if an effective appeal is brought, the whole process then must cost less and eventually justice can be obtained in the shortest time possible....
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The ultimate punishment for man's heinous crimes has continued to raise differing views in the civilized society.... Hugo Bedau upholds the American Civil Liberties Union that "death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantee of due process of law and the equal protection of the laws".... The punishment of death for a capital offense is frowned upon as too "harsh, freaky and arbitrary" to be constitutionally acceptable....
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This is to curb such vices, offer the most appropriate and justifiable retribution to crimes committed, and consequently ensure that these crimes reduce in our society.... Putting threats and punishment is a necessity in the deterrence since it a one justification for violent crimes.... Death penalty has been in place up to date and whenever it is mentioned in courtroom, it elicits varied views from people, many terming it as a deterrent while others claiming it is unfair and ungodly mode of punishment....
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Put another way, “there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life.... Since 1976 Texas has put a number of individuals to death for committing specific crimes that were of such a nature to warrant such a punishment, since the United States Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty that same year.... 29) The example that is given by Kant is that if a society lived on an island and decided to disperse and to go to various parts of the earth, first the last murderer in prison would have to be executed in order that each should receive his just deserts and that “the people should not bear the guilt of a capital crime through failing to insist on its punishment; for if they do not do so, they can be regarded as accomplices in the public violation of justice....
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The final argument was the judge's justification of his punishment.... He claimed that the punishment would help reform the individual while the man would serve as an example for other people in the society who would act similarly in the future.... The court proceeding consisted of the prosecutor, the defendant, the jury and several members of the public who had come to witness the proceeding, the large proceeding attracted interests from several social coffers thereby heightening the proceedings....
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Part of the relevance of the role of the victim in the criminal procedure, this paper proposed, rests in the reality that he can express himself in the first-person singular and in the first-person plural; he can testify and witness the character and repercussions of the offense inflicted to him… There would apparently be challenging tasks in identifying and implementing such a section, but it appears in principle the most favorable means to do justice to what are, this paper claimed, the rightful demands of the political community on its citizens, as well as victims, to fulfill their role in responding to public offenses The communicative endeavor is realized through a multi-stage procedure (Duff & Marshall, 2004, 39): …through the criminal trial, as a process that calls the defendant to answer a charge of wrongdoing, and the conviction that follows on proof of his guilt; through the sentencing discussion (involving the victim if possible, as well as a suitable representative of the polity, such as a probation officer) that should ideally follow conviction, and that would focus both on the past crime as a wrong that the offender must confront and on the question of what sentence would constitute an appropriately reparative and apologetic penance for that wrong; and through the punishment that is then imposed on or demanded of the offender....
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The issue of mental disorder has become one of the most important topics for modern scientific studies.... "Civil Сommitment and the Mentally Ill" paper analyzes the imprisoned people, possessing mental diseases, and their behavior in terms of the applied punishments.... The modern system of civil commitment comprises a number of measures for the reconstruction of the human mind....
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