The Case of the Spelunkers: Murder in a "Cave Cathedral" Murder is the most heinous of human acts, and unless it is committed in true self defense can never be justified. During a weekend spelunking trip, four close male friends become perilously trapped within a "Cave Cathedral" with little food and limited water. After just a week passes with no rescue one of the men suggests the macabre idea of drawing straws to determine who will be "sacrificed" for food so that the remaining three
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who rejects the authority of the inspired Word of God will oppose what the Holy Scripture teaches about the death penalty. There are several reasons that people give for opposing capital punishment, but we do not agree even one of those viewpoints. Murder is to be punished by death because of the sanctity of human life for man was made in the image of God. Now a practical question is this: What is the purpose of capital punishment? A great variety of answers has been debated about the purpose of
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Dear Ms. Horniman, I am writing to strongly disagree with the sentiments expressed by Jeff Jacoby surrounding capital punishment detailed in a recent Guardian title. Specifically, I believe that the article, Execution saves innocents…, contains a number of biased information, as well as some of his arguments are ridiculous at times, making no sense at all. These arguments include the chance of error being very low in capital punishment, the deterrent effect and the innocent lives at stake. In this
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other choice to live, but some in particular do it for the fun. I do not promote death punishment for everyone. An individual, who took bread from a grocery stock, certainly does not be worthy of a death penalty. Nonetheless, a serial killer, who murders people for amusing himself or for his own gain, absolutely justifies death penalty. The society’s garbage can be eliminated by continuously using the penalty of death. Everybody does not deserve to die, but there are some people who definitely do
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what is the risk that someone who is convicted of a capital offense will commit again? During Bedau’s research to determine if capital punishment is no more of a deterrent than imprisonment, he found that they were both ineffective in preventing murders. He found very little evidence to support his idea that the death penalty was being administered based on racial bias. In regards to the risk that someone who was innocent being executed, he found it to be impossible to calculate that risk. His answer
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A serial killer is someone who kills at least three victims one by one in a series of sequential murders, with a form of psychological gratification as the primary motive. The need for psychological gratification distinguishes serial killers from other types of murderers, who usually murder for things like profit or revenge. Because an element of psychological instability is involved in serial killing, many serial killers are committed to mental institutions if and when they are caught, reflecting
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Capital Murder I think capital punishment has its ups and downs. I deem some instances you should use it and some you shouldn’t. I’m going to give you both sides and my opinions on capital punishment also facts on this controversial punishment. The first side I’m going to give you is that capital punishment is ultimate denial of human rights and that two wrongs don’t make a right. What this means is that by killing the person doesn’t change what he did and by killing him goes against everything
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Celebration of Mass Murderer to Occur For years, Columbus Day has been recognized as a national holiday. Millions of ignorant people go out and celebrate the man who brought about the deaths of millions of Native American people. Many are too perturbed by the thought of that, after all, it was not their ancestors who died. Others would argue that is was not Columbus who killed the Indians, it was smallpox. Though Hitler did not gas, shoot, and work all those Jews himself, he was the man behind
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Many people would rather have an enemy who admits they hate them instead of a friend who secretly put them down. A backstabbing friend who puts people down is often seen in literature. Caesar, from Julius Caesar, was backstabbed and murdered by his best friend Brutus. Unfortunately, Brutus made the wrong decision by murdering his beloved friend. Brutus, from the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, was a backstabbing friend and was wrong to kill Caesar because he acted too soon, and Caesar was his
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in daylight outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Oxford Street”. I don’t think this article is reliable; yes there are a lot of state-ments, from the police, for example:” A number of weapons have been recovered from the scene. Whether I’ve got the murder weapon I don’t know”. But the article is missing pictures, some more information about who did it and why. After reading this article, I think that this fatal stabbing had something to do with the Boxing Day and all the fact that people will do so
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