Essays on Scruples

a. Prior to 1972, the death penalty legal procedure varied from one state to the other. However, in Furnam v. Georgia, a Supreme Court case which was decided in 1972, the constitutionality of the death penalty was addressed. In this case, the Supreme Court decided that the death penalty was imposed b as a result of an arbitrary and discriminatory process (Lynch and Haney 337). In this case, the defendants claimed that the imposition of the death penalty represented a violation of their rights under the 8th and the 14th Amendment (Dunn). Furman, the main defendant, was charged of ...

A Case Law Brief

391 U.S. 510 (1968) I. Facts On April 29, 1959, a police patrol car that has stopped for a red light was approached by a woman. The woman complained to the officers that the petitioner, Witherspoon, had assaulted her outside of a nearby tavern. The woman also informed the officers that Witherspoon was armed. Witherspoon, who had observed the woman talking to the police, ran into an adjacent parking lot and hid in a parked truck. Following up on the woman’s complaint, the police pursued Witherspoon into the parking lot. When one of the officers happened unto Witherspoon hiding in a truck, ...

Introduction:

The media is always an important tool in any context as it instructs and apportions exposure to several instances in life. With the advent of the 24 hour news cycle some years back, the media exposed the vast majority of the world’s population to sordid scenes of violence which went occasionally uncensored also. This context and the impact such media portrayals have on children is discussed in this paper.

Context:

In Thinking about Theory the author discusses how certain media portrayals can have a negative effect on children especially with regards to violence. For example the recent uprisings in Arab ...