.... and maintenance of the procedures attending the death penalty, including death row and the endless appeals and legal machinery, far outweighs the expense of maintaining in prison the tiny fraction of criminals who would otherwise be slain (Draper 46). A report issued in1998 by the Judicial Conference of the United States found the cost of sentencing a defendant to the death penalty is higher than imprisoning the accused for life. This is due to the high cost of providing representation in federal death penalty cases (www.uscourts.gov/dpenalty.htm). Cases involving the death penalty take longe .....

.... that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.” The Supreme Court’s decision that separate but equal is not equal began the desegregation of public schools. The decision resulted in forced busing of students. Some students now have to travel extremely far so that schools meet their quota of African American students. This is reason that some people, including some African Americans, wonder why such a decision is .....

.... town north of Chicago, two high school seniors were arrested for the use of counterfeit bills. With the use of the internet and a color printer, these two teenagers were able to create and pass their counterfeit twenty dollar bills through the high school cafeteria but were later arrest by police after trying to use their money at a local Taco Bell. If teenagers are finding ways to counterfeit money, that should tell someone that we need to do something to protect our economy for the future. In attempt to enhance our currency system, the one hundred dollar bill was completely redesigned .....

.... rates than states without such laws. And states that have abolished capital punishment, or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. Don't murderers deserve to die? Certainly, in general, the punishment should fit the crime. But in civilized society, we reject the "eye for an eye" principle of literally doing to criminals what they do to their victims: The penalty for rape cannot be rape, or for arson, the burning down of the arsonist's house. We should , therefore, punish the murderer with death along with all other heinous crimes. If exe .....

.... live in. These women receive a renewed interest in life because they are in the thick of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred to as "bad" because it paints the woman as someone who does not really care about the effect of working will have on the baby. In fact, most of these mothers have made this choice with painstaking care. They are constantly feeling what everyone is thinking, and this in turn causes undue stress on these mothers. The other model of the working mom is the one most people think of when discussing working mothers. Thi .....

.... from childhood into adolescence with only a few minor problems; others, however, may have a more difficult time handling the pressures and may develop as a way to cope. Hormones are changing, body is developing, menstruation is around the corner and moods are swinging. Young girls seek independence and want to be treated as adults, but they are stuck in an in-between stage. All these new emotions are confusing, frightening and hard to deal with. Teenagers are under a lot of pressure to succeed and fit in; in parallel some women may enter puberty earlier then others. Early development can l .....

.... same neighborhood as Jonathan, had been in and out of prison, mostly in, since 1970. His prior convictions include murder, malicious wounding, and kidnapping. He once slashed a cab driver’s throat and left him for dead. Yet he was out on mandatory parole. Twenty-five years’ worth of victims, but Virginia set him free. Murray now faces life without parole. Jonathan was denied his life because a killer was turned loose rather than executed. If Murray had faced justice after his first slaughter, Jonathan would still be a boy with another day inside him, another jest, and another chance at .....

.... or of any individuals, to give existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States." In the first four years of the 1860's, the North and South waged war over these issues, with the Republican North emerging victorious. The Republicans took charge of the national political power. Although he worked with an anti-slavery platform, President Lincoln attempted to make a generous peace with the South, with hopes of expanding the power of the Republican party with support from the South. Examples of this can be found in the fact that Confederate officials were not barred from .....

.... there were few federal crimes. The Bureau of Investigation primarily investigated violations of laws involving national banking, bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, naturalization, and neutrality violation. With the April 1917 entry of the United States into World War I (1914-1918), the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage acts, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. When the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act was passed in October 1919, by which the federal government could investigate criminals who evaded state law .....

.... an alcohol counselor, the lines would dwarf those apparent for this year's Penn State-Michigan game. What students (as well as everyone else who drinks) need to realize is that drinking is not a solution to any kind of problem. Alcohol, like caffeine, nicotine and heroin, is a drug. Beverage companies can paint them any color they want, but nothing is going to take away that fact. Like any drug, alcohol is potentially addictive. The best test is to figure out whether you use the drug, or the drug is using you. As the summer is in its midst, more students will be inclined to drink after the .....