...Atkins v. Virginia Citation. 536 US 304 (2002) Docket No.00-8452 Supreme Court of Virginia. BRIEF FACTS SUMMARY: Daryl Renard Atkins was convicted of abduction, armed robbery, and capital murder. In the penalty phase of Atkins' trial, the defense relied on one witness, a forensic psychologist, who testified that Atkins was mildly mentally disabled . FACTS: The jury sentenced Atkins to death, but the Virginia Supreme Court ordered a second sentencing hearing because the trial court had used a misleading verdict form. During resentencing the same forensic psychologist testified, but this time the State rebutted Atkins' intelligence. The jury again sentenced Atkins to death. In affirming, the Virginia Supreme Court relied on Penry v. Lynaugh, in rejecting Atkins'...
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...1. Table Of Contents…………………………………………………………2 2. Executive Summary………………………………………………………..3 3. Scope and Statement of the Problem………………………………………4 4. Literature Review………………………………………………………….5 5. Methodology………………………………………………………………7 6. Analytical Results………………………………………………………....8 7. Discussion………………………………………………………………...10 8. Bibliography………………………………………………………………16 9. Appendix………………………………………………………………....17 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In summary, the cost of housing an incarcerated inmate does affect the budget of the United States. Whether, the inmate is sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty. The facts in this research paper leans heavily in favor of life imprisonment as a cheaper form of punishment verses an inmate being sentenced to death row. The judicial system and politicians have formed several alternatives to assist our country with the ability to lower the cost of housing an inmate in our prison system. For example, the United States detaining systems are concentrating more on issuing a fair sentence to nonviolent offenders, such as, substance abusers and prostitutes. They realize that the majority of the inmates are in need of drug rehabilitation and have a mental illness. Also, the research shows that women offenders are the most affected with drug addiction and substance abuse. They also have the greater risk of recidivism and mental illness, due to, the drug addiction and substance abuse. The judicial system...
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...Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting Major SUBJECT: SOLVING BP’S PROBLEMS REGARDING THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL Here is the report regarding the oil spill catastrophe that resulted from the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, which took place on April 20th 2010. The damages caused by this mishap are assessed and analyzed in this report. This report also includes recommendations made by experts in the specified fields relating to solving the issues brought fourth by this aforementioned spill. Despite the horrific consequences that have affected the global environment, BP’s reputation and BP’s financial assets due to this oil spill, certain efforts must be made on PB’s part in order to maintain a healthy environment for all living organisms on this planet. The information gathered in this report explores the methods at which BP could engage in this restoration process. Different methods that can be used to clean up the oil spill will be investigated in order to derive the best possible solution for BP. I am grateful towards BP’s board of directors for accepting responsibility of this oil spill by admitting that BP as an organization was at fault. It is important however, that additional actions are implemented as soon as possible in order to restore the world’s environment back to it’s natural state and to fight other consequences that have resulted from the spill. I look forward to working with you in order to accomplish this goal. If I may...
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...Many different types of healthcare professionals are found in an Emergency Room facility, and they will all have a scope of practice that they must adhere to. One such healthcare professional would be a PA or a Physician Assistant. A PA must work under the supervision of a Physician who is ultimately responsible for the PA’s performance and professional conduct with the patient. Any medical procedures that the supervising Physician performs in his scope of practice may be delegated to the PA, as long as the PA has had the necessary training and competency to successfully perform the procedure (Rogers, 2007). In an Emergency room setting a PA may be responsible for such patient care activities as evaluating incoming patients through the process of obtaining a complete and accurate health history, conducting physical examinations, performing and possibly interpreting routine diagnostic procedures such as running an EKG, checking blood pressure, and performing common laboratory testing. A PA’s scope of practice also includes administering injections, treatment of wounds including suturing, treating infections or trauma injuries, and assisting other healthcare personnel in the treatment of complex...
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...Summary of Safety, Accidents, and Investigations: Be Prepared for the Unexpected Steven Derrick Grimes Columbia Southern University SUMMARY OF SAFETY, ACCIDENTS, AND INVESTIGATIONS: BE PREPARED FOR THE UNEXPECTED The Article Safety, accidents, and investigations: Be prepared for the unexpected talks about developing an accident plan that covers the entire scope, from basic prevention to job hazard analysis, training, preparedness to responding to accidents, and strategies to handling accident investigations. The author’s intended audience is the numerous organizations to the promotion of safety and health in the workplace. Performing a job hazard analysis is basically conducting an assessment of the work that each employee performs on a daily basis. According to Battles (2011), a thorough analysis in tales “completing a survey of the tasks where injuries occur or could occur”. To conduct this type of analysis one must first locate areas of the job where employees might become injured. Then, note all possible causes and their root (Battles, 2011). A job hazard analysis is a method that focuses on job task to identify hazards before they occur. According to OSHA “The analysis focuses on the relationship between the worker, the task, the tools, and the work environment” (Battles, 2011). By doing a job hazard analysis companies will be able to find hazards before they appear thus cutting down on job injuries and loss of work time due to injuries, legal...
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...immense dedication and support in improving patient safety in recent years. Without their invaluable and incessant efforts in planning and executing various improvement initiatives to enhance patient safety through risk identification and mitigation, the publication of this annual report would not have been as meaningful. Patient Safety and Risk Management Department Quality and Safety Division 2 ANNUAL REPORT ON SENTINEL AND SERIOUS UNTOWARD EVENTS (1 October 2012 – 30 September 2013) TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 4 CHAPTER 1 – Introduction 9 CHAPTER 2 – Sentinel and Serious Untoward Event Policy 11 CHAPTER 3 – Sentinel Events Reported from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013 13 CHAPTER 4 – Serious Untoward Events Reported from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013 21 CHAPTER 5 – Actions Taken and Discussion 26 CHAPTER 6 – Conclusion 42 CHAPTER 7 – The Way Forward 44 Annex I: Annex II: HA Sentinel and Serious Untoward Event Policy Summary of Individual Sentinel Events and Recommendations for Improvement 3 ANNUAL REPORT ON SENTINEL AND SERIOUS UNTOWARD EVENTS (1 October...
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...INDONESIAN; USE A CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR ANTI TRAFFICKING CRIME CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Indonesia is a source, transit, and destination country for women, children, and men trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. The greatest threat of trafficking facing Indonesian men and women is that posed by conditions of forced labor and debt bondage in more developed Asian countries and the Middle East. The government stopped permitting Indonesian women to travel to Japan and South Korea as “cultural performers,” to curtail a practice that led to victims being trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation. However, in 2007 traffickers increasingly used false documents, including passports, to obtain tourist visas for women and girls who are subsequently forced into prostitution in Japan, through the unlawful exploitation of recruitment debts as high as $20,000 each. Trafficking of young girls to Taiwan as brides, mainly from West Kalimantan, persisted. Traffickers use false marriage licenses and other false documentation in order to obtain visas and subsequently force the women and girls into prostitution. Women from the People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Eastern Europe are trafficked to Indonesia for commercial sexual exploitation, although the numbers are small compared with the number of Indonesians trafficked for this purpose. The Government of Indonesia does not fully comply with the...
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...coherent jurisprudence ( Lippman, 2007). Working within the governing law and building on the work already done by scholars who have focused on this problem. There are three principles: transparency, limited deference, and a "felt sense of justice," that could guide the process of proportionality review and contribute to defining a retributivist touchstone for proportionality judgments (Lippman, 2007). The Death Penalty. The death penalty in the United States is used almost exclusively for the crime of murder. Although state and federal statutes contain various capital crimes other than those involving the death of the victim, only two people were on death row for a non-murder offense (Victor L. Streib, 2004). No one has been executed for such a crime since the death penalty was re-instated in 1976. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court in Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, held that the death penalty for the rape of an adult was "grossly disproportionate" and an "excessive punishment," and hence was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment (Victor L. Streib, 2004). The Court looked at the relatively few states that allowed the death penalty for rape and the few death sentences that had been handed down. Death penalty to juveniles is another controversial topic in our justice system today (Victor L. Streib, 2004). A lot of people think...
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...The death penalty should be used in this country. Some of my reasons are closure for the victims’ families. The long appeals process and the suffering of the victims. From the article it gives this example Nearly 18 years ago, David Brewer called up Sherry Byrne and lured her to a motel. He raped her, then stuffed her in the trunk of his car where she was trapped for 10 hours, bound and gagged with wire and duct tape. She made a "Help Me" sign with lipstick, and several motorists saw it sticking out of the trunk and reported it to police. But Brewer drove her to a secluded farm lane. He strangled her with a necktie, broke her neck, stabbed her 14 times and slit her throat, then stuffed the body back in his trunk and drove home to his wife. Now he sits on death row, where he belongs. After 18 years of appeals, the Supreme Court has rejected his case. Some law students want the case looked at again even after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. Here are the facts that convicted him Mr. Byrne, now a New Jersey accounting executive, grew up in southwest Ohio and worked at the Chiquita Center on the day his wife of seven months was murdered. "Sherry called me at 10:15 a.m. at my office in downtown Cincinnati to excitedly relay that a friend of ours, and my college fraternity `Big Brother,' David Brewer, had just called her and invited her to come and see him and his wife, Cathy, at a motel near our home in Springdale," he recalled. Sherry took along her puppy, "Bo." Brewer...
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...http://www.homeworkminutes.com/question/view/41054/AFT2-RAFT2-Accreditation-Audit-WGU-MBA-Graduate-Program-Complete-Course AFT2 Accreditation Audit Task 1 1. The purpose of this executive summary is to outline the current status of compliance of the organization for the priority focus area of communication, namely the standard UP.01.01.01 which is named the “Conduct a Pre-procedure Verification Process” as noted by the Joint Commission standards. A.2. The primary area of focus I chose to review was the communication aspect. I feel that communication is vital in any business, especially health care. Clear communication improves patient care and the quality of care. This is evident when time is taken to verify a patient or a procedure. When things go wrong due to misidentification of a patient, not only does that cost time and money for the patient as well as the extra burden of having that wrong fixed, but it also costs the hospitals too. Their costs are increased by trying to fix the issue and then legal issues to follow. The best way to avoid any mistake and/or injury is to adopt a more vigorous verification system. AFT2 Accreditation Audit Task 2 A.1. An unexpected occurrence that involves serious bodily or psychological harm including death or the risk leading to these is known as a sentinel event. (Sentinel event, 2013) A.2. Several people were at the scene when the abduction occurred. These staff was contact and interviewed. During...
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...A universal aspect and understanding of life is that life will one day end, for everyone. With the end of a life brings mourning, and this process of experiencing death is unavoidable, and changes from person to person due to many different variables, but just as there are many ways death enters someone's life, there are just as many ways for people to overcome their own feelings of grief either in healthy, or unhealthy ways. Throughout history cultures and societies have had deep ritualistic ties to death. Universally religions tend to be very centered on the afterlife, and this faith tends to bring comfort to those who have recently lost a loved one. But does being associated to a religious group really reduce the depression and stress brought along with...
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...Running head: Research Summary Research Summary of "Suicide Risk in the Emergency Department" Sue Hoppler RN Grand Canyon University The review of the research article “Suicide Risk Screening in an Emergency Department” by Victoria N. Folse and Rebecca L Hahn offered. Administering a four-question suicide risk questionnaire to 202 patients presenting to an emergency department was used attained the information on the benefit of this assessment. The participant sample included 59 adolescents and 143 adults including 36 geriatric patients. The patients were given the questionnaire regardless of their initial complaint. Over 40% of the patients screened positive as a suicide risk. The greatest benefit concluded that nurse screening for suicide risk is an important and beneficial part of the admission process. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in Americans and 3rd cause of death for adolescents. The rates of patient over the age of 65 are increasing especially over the age of 85. Patients that present to the Emergency Department often have no primary care provider and use the emergency department for their health care needs. This presents the optimal opportunity to screen for suicide risk at every age level. Patients at risk often go undetected and unrecognized and therefore untreated. Even patients that present to the ED for non- suicidal or mental health reasons had positive screening results. The RSQ (Risk of Suicide Questionnaire)...
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...Precious C Govt. 2301 Nov. 12 The Death Penalty Research and debate on the death penalty is avidly one of the fastest growing political issues in the history of criminal justice. The issue has continually posed dynamics in our society on whether such an act or decree serves as a justified and valid form of punishment or not. It is indeed a matter of major controversy since the death penalty or otherwise capital punishment is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for a crime. There are certain morals and effectiveness to having someone being punished in this manner; whether it is declaring a death sentence or execution itself, they are all still unjust. With that being said, the death penalty does not deter crime and should be abolished because it is totally inhumane, barbarous, and does not respect sanctity of life. The main reason the death penalty was instituted was to deter crime. Though, this idea has been entirely false as murderers rarely consider the consequences before committing a crime. In my opinion, the death penalty is highly immoral and I completely disagree with this method of passing out judgment due to the fact that wrongful convictions do occur. For example, there was a situation a witness gave faulty information concerning a murder case of US Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to death in South Carolina in 1986 because the witness had sworn that he saw Hennis at the scene of the crime; only...
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...War Logs The issue of “Wikileaks and War Logs” can be examined through both the utilitarian approach and the rights approach. This is because the report is about the deaths of a large number of people that took place in a specific country. The utilitarian approach requires that ethically, an action should yield repercussions that cause the least harm while promoting the most good (Morrison, 2009, p. 387). According to Wikileaks.org (2010, p.1), the deaths that occurred in Iraq were 109,032 in number. Out of this number, the number of civilians was 66,081. Whether this information is true or not, it is information that can cause more harm than good. It should be noted that those who died due to the Iraqi War have left behind their family members, who in all likelihood dearly loved them and miss them. As pointed out by Reader (2013, p.6), the leaks were a potential source of unrest in the then unstable Iraqi nation. Security in the country would certainly have been put to the test given that the...
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...Apple Inc. Individual Assignment 1 MGMT 419 October, 11, 2013 Prepared for Neil Saxon Prepared by Artie Prabhakar Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Management Problem 4 Impact on investor 7 Impact on consumers 7 Impact on organization 8 Conclusion 8 Executive Summary The company that I have chosen to research is Apple, Apple incorporation; an American multinational corporation was established in 1976 in California by two pioneer personalities Steven Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Both of the founders having a unique skill set and both highly interested in electronics (Researchomatic, 2012). The company’s background goes back to when Steve Jobs started in his garage innovating new technologies that would be used everywhere around the world today. Eventually Jobs turned his invention of the iPhone to a corporate empire in 1977 and it has soared till his death in 2011. The research in this paper goes to outline what changes his death brought about in the company, and what the management needed to solve along with impacts it had on the stakeholders. Introduction Changing organization is as messy as it is exhilarating, as frustrating as it is satisfying, as muddling through and creative a process as it is a rational one (Palmer, Dunford & Akin, 2009).The company that I have chosen to research is Apple, Apple incorporation, an American multinational corporation was established in 1976 in California by two pioneer personalities Steven Wozniak...
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