capital punishment

Weigh the pros, cons and controversies surrounding the grave issue of capital punishment; should the death penalty be allowed?

Women Harassment
Right from the time of her birth or even before a girl could become victim of a crime or target of a crime. Lets look at the stages in a woman’s life and discuss the threats briefly. Just as the stages vary, nature of crimes vary too. Below are illustrations/tables that highlight important aspects of the issue. The 2012 National Crime Records Bureau report of India states a reported crime rate of 46 per 100,000, rape rate of 2 per 100,000, dowry homicide rate of 0.7 per 100,000 and the rate of domestic cruelty by husband or his relatives as 5.9 per 100,000. A 2014 study in the Lancet states, “Whereas an 8·5% prevalence of sexual violence in the country [India] is among the lowest in the world, it is estimated to affect 27·5 million women in India [given India’s large population]. Further, the 2006 survey found that 85% of women who suffered sexual violence, in or outside of marriage, never sought help, and only 1% report it to the police.”
By zol4 years ago in Criminal
The battle to close Guantanamo Bay
In September 2001, just days after 9/11 George Bush launched the Global War On Terror. In October of that same year, he sent troops to invade Afghanistan, hunt down Bin Laden and go after the Taliban. America started offering cash rewards often enough change lives for anyone who help capture a terrorist. Many people in Afghanistan and Pakistan took advantage of the cash rewards and started turning people in, often times with very little evidence. The US sent those people to secret prisons in Afghanistan, Thailand, Romania, Poland and Lithuania called “Black Sites”. Here they were interrogated and tortured. But after about a month they started looking for a larger prison to consolidate all those prisoners, eventually settling on an American military base in Cuba. In January 2002 the first detainees began to arrive at Guantanamo Bay. Hundreds of prisoners were held at Guantanamo Bay, some were tortured, few were charged with a crime and none of them received a fair trial.
By OurBob 7754 years ago in Criminal
The crime and justice
Regardless of their particular point-of-view, most people agree that crime and violence are exploding out-of-control in the streets of our towns and cities. Most also agree that what we are doing about it is not working. We are fearful and we have good reason. We know our criminal justice system is broken and we don't know how to fix it.
By garduh4 years ago in Criminal
I'll Be With You Soon, Eloise
Very few are given the opportunity to know when or how their life will end. Believe it or not, there is a gift in that. Most wander through life like they have so much living left to do, so they pour time down the drain the same way they’d leave the tap on while brushing their teeth- with the jaded illusion that there is enough to waste. But when you are given a death sentence, you realize how wasteful you had really been.
By Kelly Retz4 years ago in Criminal
Why The Death Penalty Should Be Banned
The death penalty is a process by the law where an individual is killed for an offence punishable by the state through such means. The judicial order that an individual be given a death penalty leads to an execution in the actual enforcement. Many crime offenders are being executed all over the world by their own states for various offenses. Majority of people believe the saying, 'an eye for an eye', but what they don’t realize is that just because someone kills another, it doesn’t give anyone else the justice to take away someone’s life. People don't realize that they are putting the blood of another person on their hands and that their conscience will forever be stained with the life of the one they wanted to die. This, in the end, makes them just as guilty as the person who committed the crime. The only difference is that they didn't pull the trigger, instead they ordered someone else to do it. Because of this reason the death penalty should be abolished because it’s irreversible, there's no humane way to kill, and it violates the eighth amendment.
By Emily Clare Burgess4 years ago in Criminal
Deal With The Devil
By Rick Hartford There was a full moon and a man wearing a black duster and wide brim fedora threw monstrous shadows behind him as a pick thudded into the earth.
By Rick Hartford4 years ago in Criminal
The Irish Immigrant Who Took the Life of Her Employer for Money and Love
Grace Marks was an Irish immigrant maid who murdered her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Little facts remain about the case; much is speculation due to the contrasting stories given by the co-defendants.
By Sam H Arnold4 years ago in Criminal
The Twitter Serial Killer
A quaint house in a small residential area of Kanagawa, just outside of Tokyo. Here a normal-looking Japanese man of 27 years old, in 2017, welcomed nine people into that house and then went on to assault, kill, dismember, and dispose of them until finally being apprehended and being found guilty on October 1st, 2020.
By S.A. Ozbourne4 years ago in Criminal
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
“Tell me, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.” — reported final words of Peter Kürten before his execution
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Executed Killer and Child Rapist Confesses to a Final Crime from the Grave
David Neal Cox pleaded guilty to shooting his wife, Kim Kirk Cox, and sexually assaulting her 12-year-old daughter in front of her as she lay dying in May 2010. On November 17, 2021, that same stepdaughter, Lindsey Kirk, watched as 50-year-old Cox was executed by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. He was the first inmate to be executed in the state in nine years.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
The Last Woman Hanged in the UK
Ruth Ellis was an escort and nightclub hostess located in the United Kingdom. She was convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely, and hanged on July 13, 1955. It was the last time a woman was hanged in the UK.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
The Botched Execution of John Louis Evans
Between the years 1927 and 2002, more than 135 men were put to death in Alabama using the electric chair known by most there as “Yellow Mama.”
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal