Essays on Death Penalty

The movie “Return to Paradise,” raises profound ethical questions regarding personal mortality as well as lawyers’ ethical responsibility. The movie revolves around three young Americans who enjoy a cheap and sensual summer in Malaysia, usually while stone on cheap hashish. Two of them, Sheriff and Tony, return to the United...

Head, Tom. “5 Arguments for the Death Penalty.” ThoughtCo, 19 Feb. 2017, https://www.thoughtco.com/arguments-for-the-death-penalty-721136. Accessed 30 Jul. 2018. In this paper, Tom Head puts forward his arguments in support of the death penalty. He observes the waning support of the capital punishment in the United States by referring to a recent Gallup...

Texas Death Penalty: Controversies and Considerations Texas has been using the legal death penalty for capital offenses for a very long time, executing a lot of people compared to the other states in the United States of America. Texas should cease using the death penalty in cases that are contradicting or...

The Decline of Death Sentences in the United States The leveling of death sentences by American courts is not a secret. However, there has been a decline in the number of jurisdictions imposing death penalties in the recent past. Despite the decline, Texas still leads the country's executions. Texas is estimated...

The first four episodes of The Last Defense examine the criminal case established against Darlie Routier. The first episode depicts how a housewife in Dallas was sentenced to death for the malicious homicide of her two sons. Routier’s husband narrates the events as they unfolded from his perspective. The second...

Very few people accept to be associated with the wrongdoers, in fact, most of them avoid associating with suspected wrongdoers even before they are convicted of their crimes. Jeffrey Toobin in The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row attempts to give an account of a 20-year-old Black American lawyer, Stevenson,...

The Scottsboro Boys case of 1931 involves nine black gentlemen who were falsely accused of raping two white ladies in a freight train in Northeast of Alabama. Except for Roy Wright who was among them, other boys were accused of this crime without adequate evidence and later charged and sentenced...

Mental illness has long been in existence in our societies. It is an issue that has existed for a long time. People have often feared people with mental illness which is a perception among many laypeople. Based on medieval theory, mental illness is associated with evil spirits. Although it has...

Death penalty is one of the most controversial topics of this decade. There are many people who are pro and against the ideology and acts that bring forth very substantial reasoning. The most agreeable reason that people use is the fact that life is sacred and no one should be...

The Death Penalty and Moral Justification The death penalty is another name for the execution penalty. This is the procedure whereby the State executes a criminal as payment for a crime done. Execution refers to the process of applying the execution penalty. Crimes that carry the execution penalty are referred to...

The study's subject is the reprieve of prisoners from the death penalty. The report reflects on how imposing the death penalty on convicted criminals violates the same civil rights that the constitution seeks to secure. Thus, the article suggests a thesis proving that convicted prisoners awaiting the death penalty should...

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the carrying out of a sentence imposed on someone convicted of a capital offense. The death penalty has a long history, almost as long as human history. Electrocution, hanging, burning, boiling to death, drowning, gases, lynching, and crucifixion are among the...