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Jaycee Lee Dugard Outrage

Yesterday was the last straw. The Jaycee Lee Dugard story has blood shooting out my eyes. The Jessica Lunsford law needs to be enriched.

29 comments    death penalty sex offender somer
Did you know that the Death Penalty costs states hundreds of millions of dollars a year and a lot of the time the execution if it ever happens is 20 years in the future. And recently information is revealing the fact that some states may have committ76

Death Penalty Debate

Did you know that the Death Penalty costs states hundreds of millions of dollars a year and a lot of the time the execution if it ever happens is 20 years in the future. And recently information is revealing...

3 comments    texas innocent death penalty
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A Call for Death Sentence for Confirmed Rapists

A rape is a more horrible crime than a murder. A person murdered is gone but the rape victim (if not murdered by the Rapist) has to suffer the effects of Rape not only on her or his body but also in mind and...

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Is the Death penalty really a deterrant?

Even with the mass number of exonerations, botched executions and the possibility of having executed an innocent man, many people still stand behind the death penalty as a deterrant to crime. But is it really? Given the crime rate and the number of murders, robberies, and rapes that occur daily it is highly unlikely that the threat of execution deters an individual from committing a crime.

4 comments    politics death crime
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Tennessee's Death Row

An overview of Tennessee's Death Row containing the history, stats, and describes the people currently on death row in Tennessee.

0 comments    death prison supreme court
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10 Serial Killers, North of the Border

Canada has its share of deviant and sadistic minds. According to the FBI, a serial Killer is someone who kills 3 or more people, with a cooling off period between each murder. The 10 Top Serial killers ,...

17 comments    death canada police
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Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls

It's great to be alive, to breathe fresh air, to hear the robins sing and see the rising sun, to be free, to be part of mankind. Life, despite trials and tribulations, is joyous; it is ethereal, evaporating, sooner or later, into, for the faithful, the heavens.

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The main reason why the death penalty should never be restored in the UK, without some boundaries

As a liberal minded individual, when I was younger, I could never agree to the death penalty or Capital Punishment, as it is also called. Thirty odd years down the road my gut instinct still leans this way...

14 comments    life advice car
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Reasons the Death Penalty should be abolished

First and foremost the death penalty is a barbaric act of murder. We teach our children very early on that two wrongs do not make a right. The crime of murder carries our harshest of sentences such is...

13 comments    politics united states crime
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The Death Penalty: Wrongfully Executed

The state of Texas is known for "big" things. Big horns, big state fairs, big amusement parks and big parties. It is also a very big state. (try driving across Texas, from Beaumont to El Paso) But, the state...

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