Word: unjust
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...currently up for re-election, treated the verdict like it was just another attack ad in a political season, issuing a statement that hit right back at "prosecutorial misconduct." He promised, as he has in the past, to fight for his election to the finish, and to "fight this unjust verdict with every ounce of energy I have." Said Stevens: "I am innocent." He will head to Alaska later this week, presumably to take part in a debate with his opponent on Thursday...
...omission that reinforces our contention that the death penalty is flawed. The applicability of the death penalty is unjustifiable given the extreme uncertainty in the case of Davis, or in any case for that matter. So long as a fallible justice system remains, the death penalty will be an unjust means of punishing criminals. Three primary, practical arguments exist against a state-imposed death penalty. First, the finality of the death penalty undermines procedural considerations and the possibility of revisiting new evidence. Since the introduction of DNA testing, 200 individuals who were convicted of violent crimes have been exonerated...
...supposed to make sure that justice is being done and people's rights are being looked after. When you are sitting there witnessing horribly unjust things occuring, I could just be the typical bureaucrat who falls back on, "Hey, I'm just following the law." But that's wrong, it's plain-old wrong, call it what you want. Last I checked our constitution, people are allowed due process rights before property is taken away from them. The people I'm talking about now have no idea they're even the subject of a lawsuit. And somehow, that is justice...
...justice that produced two main philosophical positions: transcendental institutionalism, which focuses on the nature of a perfectly just society, and realization-focused comparisons, which compare levels of justice in societies. The former approach, advocated by Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, draws a clear line between the just and unjust while the comparative theory, influenced by the writings of Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, discriminates between degrees of justice. A proponent of the realization-focused comparisons, Sen said he was skeptical that societies could ever agree on a single set of principles—a requirement of the transcendental theory...
...Olympics as it did with the 1936 Games in Berlin [Aug. 4]. Why even mention that established architect Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, contributed to the design of the event? China is not without indiscretions, but to equate the country with the Nazi regime is reprehensibly unjust. Winston Wang, PRINCETON...