... new age drugs. The reason that there is so much media hype about the drug abuse amongst the poor is because the rich have the political power to cover it up, the poor don't. Crack is cocaine mixed with baking soda and cooked in to rock form 6. Even though crack and cocaine are the same drug (just in different forms) the courts give out stiffer sentences for crack offenders than powder cocaine offenders 7. According to federal law if a person is caught with five grams of crack they get a mandatory five year sentence 8. To get a five year sentence for trafficking powder cocaine a person would have to be caught with 500 grams 9. African-Americans account for ...
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... debate on illegal immigration cannot be separated from the debate on legal immigration. According to Negative Population Growth (which is a suspect source), Americans are firmly believe in tough laws against illegal immigrants and that 70% of Americans want no more than 300,000 legal immigrants to enter the U.S. per year. In fact, N.P.G. says that 20% of Americans want immigration completely stopped. Taking these numbers as the truth, it is clear that America thinks that we have too many immigrants. Such a dislike of immigration is interesting considering the success of past immigration. Many people would say that today's immigrants are somehow diffe ...
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... cash, and the Canadian authorities; seizure of than $129 million in counterfeit U.S. currency." (Gomez, Bertha. "Officials Say..") In a small 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 ...
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... plan, but because we’re , plans are optional. No matter how big or small the job is, the plan is up to the individual. Just remember not to be thorough, and improvise as much as possible. When doing the actual crime, make sure that the victims or the police have some way of identifying who robbed them, a link missing from the chain mail so to speak. Some examples of this would be to sign a ransom note or to rob a bank without a disguise. Another nice thing to do is to smile for the camera when robbing a place that has surveillance. To be really dumb, one should always stick out like a sore thumb. Wear distinctive clothing such as a work uniform with nam ...
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... Angles. There was looting and building being torched. {Burning 14} Following the riots it was announced that two officers Stacey Koon And Lawrence Powell would stand trial yet again, but this time in federal court for violating Rodney Kings civil rights. Both were convicted and sentenced to prison terms {Brutality In Los Angles 7} The Rodney King video and trial sparked a question in many peoples mind through out the nation, “How big of a problem is police brutality? Little did they know that this would be the beginning of a streak of police related violence. Sandra Antor a Miami, Florida residence was driving through South Carolina heading nort ...
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... provisions of N.J.S. 2C: 11-3 say that the "punishment shall be imposed by continuous, intravenous administration until the person is dead of a lethal quantity of an ultrashot acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic agent in a quantity sufficient to cause death." Prior to the lethal injection, the person shall be sedated by a licensed physician, registered nurse, or other qualified personnel, by either oral tablet or capsule or an intramuscular injection of a narcotic or barbiturate such as morphine, cocaine, or demerol. In the provisions of the N.J.S. 2C: 49-3, it says that the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections determi ...
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... it okay to do it back, right? I believe this exactly. This is the reason that I disagree with capital punishment. and nobody is justified in killing another human for what they've done in the past. There's really no other way to say it. A murder is a murder, there are no two ways to look at it. When one human loses their life due entirely to another human, what would it be called beyond murder? Capital Punishment does just that. These people that are on death row in the United States are criminals. There is no disputing that fact. They have been tried an convicted. It is not what they have done that is up for discussion so much as how they are to be pu ...
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... consists of hard liquor like Vodka and Jack Daniel's. Then there is beer with the lighter stuff like wine, wine coolers, and fuzzy navel. Teens that drive are in big trouble and are at big risk. I'm not blaming the accidents that involve drunk in just teens. Drunk drivers are of all ages. And I'm not trying to say that all teens drink either. But the ones that do and are stupid enough to say they're sober and can drive home safe. Those are the ones that put innocent citizens at risk. The drunk teens that drive are looking at getting their license provoked. They go to jail, their car gets impounded, and of course they get a DUI. At p ...
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... did do the crime the fact remains in the eyes of the law he was found innocent and therefore should not be able to be held accountable for their wrongful deaths. What was amazing about the case is the amount of money that was awarded to the families when they stated it wasn’t about the money. If it wasn’t about the money then why did they bother with the suit in the first place if he was found not guilty of their murders? To me it seems that it was about the money and not who killed their children, if that was the case they would work with OJ to find out who the real killers are. Recently a lawsuit was filed against a college for a computer course that was too hard. ...
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... and arrogant people? Murderers should not be allowed to walk the streets after being found guilty of such violent crimes. "To protect the innocent and transfer the fear and burden of crime to the criminal element where it belongs, we must demand that capital punishment be imposed when justified and expanded to cover terrible crimes in addition to murder" (Lee 163). Ever since executions have existed, there have been several methods of executing criminals. Firing squad, hanging, decapitation, and stoning people to death were some of the methods that had been used in the past to perform executions. The three most common forms of executions in the United States ...
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