… is to hold juvenile offenders accountable for delinquent acts while providing treatment, rehabilitation, and programs designed to prevent recidivism. Juvenile courts have recognized that there are developmental differences between adults and juveniles…

… household as a form of protection for many years. However, are they are safe? Parents should consider the negative effects of having a gun before bringing it into the household. They should avoid having weapons, especially guns, for the following…

… a person's head. In the past, people were often executed by severing their head from their body. Today, in the U.S., most prisoners are executed by lethal injection. The United States is one of the very few industrialized countries in the world…

… 9, 2001, police in Leitchfield, Kentucky were called to Bratcher's Flea Market to report the discovery of the body of an infant. A septic tank worker had been pumping out the women's outhouse when his vacuum hose became stuck. When the man pulled…

… has not led to increased homicide rates. Statistics Canada reports that the number of homicides in Canada in 2001 (554) was 23% lower than the number of homicides in 1975 (721), the year before the death penalty was abolished. In addition, homicide…

… Back" and Mike Royko's "Death to the Killers," each author presents their individual analysis on the topic of capital punishment. The writers discuss their personal opinions on the issue of the death penalty, while giving several reasons to support…

… the most debated issues in the Criminal Justice Sysem and is a very controversial issue among society. The two most common views are either completely for or against capital punishment. Most arguments against the death penalty are for moral reason…

… the state, for committing crimes, regarded so hideous, that this is the only accepted punishment(Schabas, 7). Capital Punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but its value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences.…

… all other forms of punishments in that it cannot be reversed and therefore should be abolished. Murderers are not discouraged from committing crimes even with the death penalty as a punishment. The high costs of the death penalty are also another good…

… United States of America was of Daniel Frank, put to death in 1622 in the Colony of Virginia for the crime of theft. Since then the death penalty has almost always been a feature of the criminal justice system, first in the American colonies and then,…