Analysis of, Death and Justice by Edward I. Koch 13 October 2013 In his essay Death and Justice, Edward Koch argues in support of capital punishment, he believes it is just and it saves lives. He successfully delivers an argument laced with true and vivid examples of unforgettable murderous events. His intended audience consists of the opposing voters and readers of the New Republic, the political magazine that published his essay. Prior to reading Edward Koch’s essay I was sure that I would disagree but it became clear to me that he is right. There are seven commonly held views against the death penalty that Koch argues against in his essay.
Murderers James Hamm and David Mumbaugh depicts different ways of paying their debt. Jane Bernstein’s view of understanding appropriate punishment for murder is altered when she encounters the different ways paying a debt and the influence of the Victim’s Bill of Rights. She suggests that there’s validation in allowing victims to play a role in the decision of a criminal’s release, yet they should not confer the power to determine one’s destiny. All too often, individuals who after being convicted of their crimes, served their sentences and are due for release, but are then subjected to the wrath of their victims and/or their relatives. At times, there are even attempts through the legal system to have their sentences reduced and released on “good behavior”.
In the case of Stephanie Benton, I saw this with my own eyes. The convicted killer hears his possible sentence to death for his malicious acts of crime and shows no remorse for her life, just his own. Since his conviction there have been 81 court dates rescheduled to go forth with his death penalty
One once said,” That it was better to have ten criminals escape punishment than to have one innocent person imprisoned.” To achieve this it will be ideal to keep the government honest; doing so without convictions by false statements, planted evidence or lying witnesses. Even if the accused person of the crime, is in fact guilty of the crime. It will be completely impossible to figure out the difference if the government to cheat in order to imprison one. The defense attorney’s job does not change regardless of whether the accused is guilty of the crime. The obligations of the criminal defense attorney are to advice their client of all the possible outcomes if they were to testify or not; the client has the right to testify on their behalf.
Every year hundreds of people are murdered while the criminal who did this horrible crime continues to live their life until they are put behind bars. When these murderers go to trial, they are either put in prison for live or they receive the death penalty. There are many people who believe that the death penalty is a violation of a person’s constitutional rights, but didn’t the person who committed the crime violate their victim’s constitutional rights? I believe in capital punishment and I believe that if you commit the crime you should be held responsible for your actions. The death penalty is a deterrent to crime and it ensures that the criminal will never have the chance to harm anyone ever again.
Rodney King had reached a settlement worth 4 million dollars and later on two of the four officers were sent to prison and the other two were acquitted. In TKAM Tom Robinson was sentenced to prison for alleged rape and was sentenced for death. Tom Robinson’s trial wasn’t really a fair one because the whole jury was twelve white men which were biased toward the victim. Tom Robinson was sent to a local prison house to be detained until he goes to the federal prison but he escaped that night and was shot by one of the officers in charge there while he was running. Tom Robinson’s case was an example of injustice due to the fact that the jurors had not gathered any evidence that proved Tom Robinsons guilt, Atticus had proved the court wrong but that was not enough for a racist and biased group of jurors to allow Tom Robinson to leave freely.
We have to promote fairness and just law regardless of how one looks, what communities we live in, and what other’s sexual preference is. In the stop and frisk article people were concerned about this type of authority the policemen have and wasn’t allowed to live a peacefully life without being harassed every time they came out into their communities. They were feeling they were being discriminated against which was beginning to feel like slavery in their own communities. These three elements of the criminal justice system ethically allowed the communities to have a voice and speak out on their right they felt was being violated and wanted Justice. The stop and frisk action conflicted with
A thought provoking, masterpiece among literature, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, makes us all think more about the world around us and how we perceive and treat others. Central themes in the book are prejudices and discrimination, including racial, gender and social issues. In this essay I will explore the types of discrimination and prejudices that permeate the society of the town of Maycomb. Racism is the main prejudice that is displayed and talked about throughout the book. The trial of Tom Robinson is the central conflict that drives this story forward.
A moral voice of the good and evil in this novel is Atticus Finch, who is unique in the fact that he has experienced and understood evil without losing his faith in the human capacity for good. Atticus understands that, rather than simply being creatures of good or creatures of evil, most people have both good and bad qualities. You may say that Atticus might be one of the few that has not been corrupted by the county evil. Hypocrisy occurs in Mrs. Gate’s class when she teaches about the horrors of Hitler and how America would never persecute others. “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody.
The accused Tom Robinson was called to the witnessing chair by Atticus. Atticus asked him a ton of questions, Tom Robinson was so frightened and nervous, that he could barely speak; it was like he was choking in his own spit or in his tongue. It was now the Ewell family’s lawyer’s turn to ask questions, he got the same out of Tom although it was more in his favor. It was now time for a verdict, the jury went to come up with a verdict, it took some time for them, but they had finally reached a verdict. They accused Tom Robinson guilty of raping a white woman Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson was sentenced to