Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
The statistics also show that plea bargain decisions are biased against black defendants. The United States for example entered into a plea bargain with forty-eight percent of white defendants, while doing so for only twenty-five percent of black defendants. Bass's statistics also show that there is a huge discrepancy between death penalty charges for whites and blacks: sixteen percent of whites are charged with firearms murder while thirty-two percent of blacks are charged with the same crime. These statistics clearly show that there is a racial bias in the system.
The Supreme Court claims that its reverse of the original decision in Bass's favor is overturned, because of a lack of evidence in the defendant's specific case, and the failure to show both a discriminatory effect and intent. However, this does not appear entirely true. The statistics speak for themselves. The fact that they pertain to country-wide cases is indicative only that the entire system is discriminatory with the specific intent of being so. This indicates...
Indeed, many events during the recent decades have made it clear that racial discrimination still plagues every area of American life, despite the fact that the Constitution guarantees equal rights for all.
The Supreme Court decisions just appears to be one of the latest cases of such discrimination. The reason cited for the Court's decision appears to be a smoke screen behind which the true realities of justice and discrimination are hidden. Indeed, it appears that, by preventing Bass's access to a discovery motion, the Supreme Court is preventing him from discovering a reality that the Court and its officials wish to hide from the public.
The death penalty is a very serious judgment, and should not be made lightly. Therefore, any defendants attempting to find ways in which to overturn such a penalty should be granted the chance to do so. The Supreme Court was therefore incorrect in its decision.
Capital Punishment in the United States Capital punishment is one of the comprehensive, but debatable punishments given to criminal offenders in the U.S. And many other nations across the globe. Capital punishment involves the issuance of the death penalty because of committing serious crimes like crime in the society. Capital punishment has received tumultuous public support touching both ends of the society with its authorization in thirty-seven American states. It is
Murder cannot be a decried and yet practiced by the same entity without being hypocritical. Innumerable individuals on death row have been wrongfully convicted due to any number of reasons. The appeals of death row inmates sometimes never get heard. Those inmates who cannot afford to fight a good appeal are the worse off of all. Because DNA testing and more traditional forms of evidence can be used to
A good example is the 1985 murder of convenience store clerk Cynthia Barlieb, whose murder was prosecuted by a district attorney bent on securing execution for Barlieb's killer (Pompeilo 2005). The original trial and all the subsequent appeals forced Barlieb's family, including four young daughters, to spend 17 years in the legal process - her oldest daughter was 8 years old when Cynthia was first shot, and 25 when
Death Penalty: Social Attitudes and Modern Alternatives The issue of the death penalty raises deep emotions on all sides of the debate. Many feel that the death penalty no longer holds value as a tool for society to prevent heinous crimes. In the past, the prevalence of the death penalty created a measure of deterrence on social behaviors. However, in modern life, there is no longer is a measurable deterrence felt
However, the reasons why people commit crime are as different as the individuals themselves. Intentional murder comes in two different flavors. The first is the carefully plotted, well thought out, planned act. In this scenario, motivational theory takes over. The person must feel that they will gain some type of value from the action. It may be that they gain something, such as money, or they may feel that
It would seem that many criminals would find this more amusing than frightening. They do not take their chances of being caught and subjected to capital punishment seriously enough to be frightened by the penalty like many assume they will be (van den Haag, 2001). According to some who believe in God and feel that capital punishment is acceptable under the scriptures, there is one main point, which is that