Penalty Article Reviews Samples For Students

Abstract

Hammurabi’s Code placed great value upon the slave as property, not as a human being. The slave’s value appeared to be measured by the degree to which he or she could perform work for the slave-owner. Grave punishments were inflicted upon a man who deprived another of his slave. While assaults upon freemen resulting in injury or death were punished in draconian fashion, monetary damages were the measure of reparation for the injury or wrongful death of a slave and were payable not to the slave or his family, but to the slave-owner. Liability for professional malpractice or negligence resulting ...

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Capital punishment is amongst the most controversial aspects of law and order that have ever been debated in the history of legislation. The advent of capital punishment initiated in pre-historical times and the purpose of this punishment was not just disposing of the accused person on whom the crime has been proven, but also to ensure that an example was made of that person, and a message about the supremacy of law was conveyed into the society.
However, over the period of time and into the modern period, it was highlighted by humanitarian organizations and movements that ...

Basis of opinions

The presented case was argued on 13th October, 2004 where the constitutionality of capital punishments for juveniles was challenged through an appeal. The basis of the argument of the Eighth Amendment as it is related to unusual and cruel punishments for crimes committed by individuals (Lane, 2005). The decision of the Supreme Court in 1988 under Thompson v. Oklahoma was to bar the execution of offenders who are below 16 years. Another case was heard in 1989; Stanford v. Kentucky, which indicated the possibility of having capital punishments rendered to individuals below 17 years.
Based on the evolving standards ...

As the story progresses in Chapter 8, a surprising apology by Marsellus occurs. This apology takes place at the board hearing of Robert. In the meeting, Prejean challenges the board to reflect on their individual roles in perpetuating death penalty. At this stage, Prejean has criticized the corrupt nature of the state. She believes that the state cannot be trusted with the determination of which individuals should be subjected to death penalty and which individual should be spared. For Marsellus to offer apology against the backdrop of his belief on the infallibility of the state is a matter of ...

Article Review

The United Nations along with other human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, denounce capital punishment, or what they also call “death penalty”. They consider it as “the ultimate denial of human rights”. The political reaction towards capital punishment seems to be, however, different. This is what Jerome Taylor comments on in his article for the Independent: “As the smoke clears after Saudi Arabia’s latest mass execution by firing squad Charles and Camilla fly in”.
According to the United Nations, the death penalty can be justified only in two “most serious” cases which are “the crime of ...

Sherri Brunsvold

In her story, Sherri Brunsvold reflects upon her experience of losing her husband. A long while after he was murdered, she learned that a sixteen year old boy, with a substantial criminal record, had shot and killed him. As a devout Christian, her account speaks mainly of how she dealt with the problem of her faith in such horrible circumstances.
It seems that Brunsvold found a great deal of comfort through counselling and other forms of group therapy, especially among other Christian people. She comments on how she did not feel hatred towards the man who killed her husband. However, that could ...