Teachers' Corner: ProCon.org for Teachers and Librarians. As someone who uses procon.org personally, I see the great value it can bring to California's students, teachers, and librarians.
This free educational resource helps students develop vital 21st century skills such as critical thinking and civics education. It also helps them learn about important issues, and is consistent with Common Core and the findings of my Education Technology Task Force. Full text of "The writings of Benjamin Franklin;"
Bush Defends Texas Executions, Rejects Moratorium. His message of compassion usurped by the drama of an imminent execution in his home state, Texas Gov.
George W. Bush insisted Wednesday that all 134 inmates put to death during his tenure were guilty and defended Texas' accelerated pace of capital punishment as "fair and just. " The putative Republican presidential nominee ruled out a moratorium on executions--such as that invoked by his GOP colleague in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan, after investigations there showed that at least a dozen innocent men had been wrongly confined to death row. "As far as I'm concerned, there has not been one innocent person executed since I've been governor," Bush told reporters at a campaign stop at the Puente Learning Center east of downtown Los Angeles.
Graham's case has exploded into a national controversy, driven by both the heat of an election year and doubts raised about his conviction, which rested solely on the testimony of one witness who saw the 1981 killing from dozens of feet away. Romney vs Obama on Capital Punishment. Romney is in favor of capital punishment.
“From my perspective, there are two main camps when it comes to the death penalty. On one side, there are some people who believe there are certain crimes that are so offensive… so reprehensible…. so far beyond the bounds of civilized society that they demand the ultimate punishment. In the other camp are well-meaning people who believe that it is immoral for government to ever take a life. In the middle, I believe, are others who could support the death penalty if it is narrowly applied and contains the appropriate safeguards. It is with that group in mind that we have brought forward the death penalty bill before you today… The appropriate response of society to terrorism carried out around the world or within the Commonwealth’s borders is to apply the death penalty. Compare Mitt Romney and Gary Johnson on Capital Punishment. Death Penalty Quotes. Amendment VIII: Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments.
Amendment VIII Document 10 Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments Papers 2:492--504 And whereas the reformation of offenders, tho' an object worthy the attention of the laws, is not effected at all by capital punishments, which exterminate instead of reforming, and should be the last melancholy resource against those whose existence is become inconsistent with the safety of their fellow citizens, which also weaken the state by cutting off so many who, if reformed, might be restored sound members to society, who, even under a course of correction, might be rendered useful in various labors for the public, and would be living and long continued spectacles to deter others from committing the like offences.
For rendering crimes and punishments therefore more proportionate to each other: Be it enacted by the General assembly that no crime shall be henceforth punished by deprivation of life or limb except those hereinafter ordained to be so punished. Amendment VIII: Benjamin Rush, On Punishing Murder by Death. Amendment VIII [Volume 5, Page 378] Document 16 Benjamin Rush, On Punishing Murder by Death Selected Writings 35--37, 52--53 In an essay upon the effects of public punishments upon criminals and upon society, published in the second volume of the American Museum, I hinted, in a short paragraph, at the injustice of punishing murder by death.
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