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The death penalty is analyzed using a real case. Michael Vick Case is examined.

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How do you feel about the death penalty?
- The death penalty is an arbitrarily used penalty that targets minorities and is barbaric.

What is the death penalty?
- The issuance of death to a citizen for the crime of murdering another human being in a manner that is beyond society's purported acceptable paradigms associated with other types of murder such as involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, and felony murder. The death penalty is issued in FIRST degree murder cases or cases that involve exigent circumstances such as kidnap, torture, and/or rape.

Compare the Travon Martin case to other similar cases?
- The Martin case is hard to compare ...

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  • Bachelor of Science , Sam Houston State University
  • Masters of Science, Kaplan University
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