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This website is about the pros and cons of the death penalty. It also gives information on the background of the issue.

Basically in a nutshell this article gives you the pros and cons of whether the death penalty should be banned. it gives 14 examples of why the death penalty should be banned and about 9 reasons why it shouldn't. seems the 14 reason why is should has a jump on the why it shouldn't.

Death penalty personal+freedoms

This article states that with recent reports from 2013 the highest death rates due to guns had the most laced gun control laws. On correlation states with the harshest gun control laws had the lowest gun death rate.  This article also includes other sources which can help to make a point.

Kentucky and North Carolina have passed Racial Justice Acts to counter systemic racial bias in the unfair sentencing of African Americans to the death penalty for killing whites. Statistical data shows there's is significant bias in the administration of the death penalty yet in two major cases before the Supreme Court, the Court ruled in favor of systemic injustice and upheld the death penalty in both cases. The Racial Justice Acts passed by Kentucky and North Carolina are a step in the right direction to remove systemic bias.

Oregon's Death With Dignity Law allows people who are terminally ill to chose their own fate. Oregon is the first law to allow this act, and so far only 525 people have chosen the death with dignity act since it got passed in 1997.

This article states that the death penalty cannot comply to the constitution. It states that 2/3 of those sentenced to death since 1976 have been in five southern states, where racial bias still exists. It also states that 17 innocent people, on death row, were released based on DNA evidence, and another 112 released based on other evidence.

Carolina Moreno talks about illegal immigrants and the border protection. She shows statistics of how many people died by trying to cross the Mexico/U.S. border. Further she describes what the Customs and Border Protection does to prevent more deaths.

This article discusses the issues with the death penalty. Included are many real life scenarios. The article also mentions news and laws in various states.

This article talks about whether people should have the right to a Doctor Assisted Death or not. It continues by stating that If people are suffering then they should have this right.

Capital punishment (the death penalty) is the pre-meditated taking of a human life by a government in response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person. This article sums the arguments for and against the death penalty, and statistics worldwide.

This website offers a rubric of the gun laws that are held by each state as of April, 2000. This information is used to help educate the public on gun crime, control, and enforcement. With this information, it is hoped that it would be used to prevent further crimes, injuries, and death caused by inappropriate gun use.

Dignity 2012 cleared the biggest hurdle in the process at the end of 2011, gathering 84,713 signatures, of which 79,626 were qualified and certified. All initiatives in the Commonwealth originate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for their journey through the State House. The initiative was introduced as H.3884 and assigned to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. Over the next few months, legislators will discuss the initiative and consider one of the following steps: The General Court can pass the initiative as it's written. (This rarely happens.) The Judiciary Committee can make a formal recommendation of Support, Do Not Support, or Neutral. The Legislature can put its own version of the initiative on the ballot. (Again, this is rare.) If the legislature doesn't pass the initiative as it's written, the next step for Dignity 2012 will be another phase of signature gathering in the beginning of May. This next signature gathering phase would be smaller than the one which took place in the fall; the campaign would need to collect 11,485 qualified voter signatures between the beginning of May and July 3rd to be considered for the November ballot. Voters who signed the petition during the first signature gathering phase cannot sign the second petition.

This NY Times article looks into the murder of Robert Krentz, the Arizona farmer, who was shot to death in Cochise County. Clues led to the possibility that it may have been an illegal alien who shot and killed Mr. Krentz. This event occurred during the heated debate as to whether Arizona's new immigration law, requiring documentation of legal status in the United States, should go into effect.

This article talks about Oregon's Death with Dignity Act passed in 1997. It reviews your personal freedom to die at a time & place of your choice if your facing a terminal illness.

This is surprising to see in the way that it has been kept underground and has had successful results. Although it is not surprising that many terminally ill patients would opt for this.

This article is a tough one. I agree with everything everyone is saying, but initially it is about the person who is suffering. If one of my family members were suffering with an illness that unfortunately ended with an early death and they were in horrible pain, I would rather tem be at peace and end their suffering if it is what they wanted.

the article makes a comparison of the high death rate due to guns in Brazil and how they are similar to the U.S. The Brazilian government in 2003 passed a gun law that brought death by gun from 40000 to 34000 in one year. This is suggesting that the U.S. should follow suit.

I thought someone was exploring a topic about lowering the drinking age, hopefully this article can help him

The article discusses the rights of married couples that are denied to gay couples as a result of illegal gay marriage. Some of the denied rights include tax benefits and the right to be notified as next of kin in case of death of a spouse

Here is a website about the freedom to bear arms and it has three links to three common myths about gun control. Namely, Three Myths: #1: A Gun In The Home Means You Are Three Times More Likely To Be Killed #2: Children Gun Deaths Are At Epidemic Proportions #3: Gun Control Has Reduced The Crime Rates In Other Countries Each of these is a great article talking about each myth.

This article talks about whether child rapists and child molesters should get the death penalty or at least a life sentence for their crimes. It talks about how child molestes and Rapists have to easy of a punishment right now. They go to prison for a bit, get out, and hurt another child with no remorse.And Child molesters and Rapists cannot be rehabilitated.

This article talks about whether or not terminally ill, suffering people should have the right to choose to end their own life in a painless manner, like we do with animals, or even how we use it with the death penalty in some states. It talks about it as a Global issue. It gives you the history on the issue. It gives you the whole ethical debate on the issue.