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...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 in the U.S. Although this figure may seem small, only cases with biological evidence that was still “intact” could be reviewed, and many prior convictions have yet to be revisited. According a recent study in The Columbia Law Review, key factors...
...research assistant with the program. Bruderlein said he hopes that the Peace Lab will be able to learn from Indonesia’s success in peacefully resolving internal conflict to teach conflict resolution techniques to professionals hoping to replicate its success. The nation was beset by violent separatist movements in recent years—most notably in Aceh and East Timor—and managed to resolve both conflicts through diplomatic means. Because of Indonesia’s ability to weather such conflicts, Totok Soefijanto, a deputy rector at Paramadina University, wrote in an e-mail that he thinks...
...duty to tell people what’s happening,” Riley said. “We try to walk the fine line between vigilance and fear.” Catalano stressed that while HUPD is “very concerned about violent crime,” there is a “greater risk of property crime,” which accounts for 95 per cent of crime on campus. “What we have done is try to increase visibility,” Riley said. HUPD has sent officers on bikes up and down the corridor...
...data are available - there were 16. Anti-gay hate crimes have fallen from 5.2 per 1 million to 4.7 per 1 million - not a huge drop, but a statistically significant one. Would a broader hate-crimes law have reduced these figures even further? I doubt it. Even if a violent criminal knows that a tough hate-crimes law exists, wouldn't that knowledge just keep him from saying "Faggot" while he chopped my arm off? I suppose that after the crime, I might take some solace in knowing that the criminal didn't utter that word as he maimed...
...would call her now, call her as she stood quivering and gasping in this great barren hall, before she had time to find Frederick and attempt to keep the pact that they had made when coming to Italy, when fleeing from the manor. Two fugitives lost in a violent sea in which their ships had catastrophically collided in disputed territory.But now he had called her. Yes? What? Yes. Yes. She felt as though her insides were ripping, palpably giving way. Her flesh expanded masochistically, straining forward as it sensed the approach of the ravenous tongues of flame, exploded...