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An Examination Of The Death Penalty, Alexandra N. Kremer

The Downtown Review

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the use of execution through hanging, beheading, drowning, gas chambers, lethal injection, and electrocution among others in response to a crime. This has spurred much debate on whether it should be used for reasons such as ethics, revenge, economics, effectiveness as a deterrent, and constitutionality. Capital punishment has roots that date back to the 18^th century B.C., but, as of 2016, has been abolished in law or practice by more than two thirds of the world’s countries and several states within the United States. Here, the arguments for and against the death …

Brief Of Political Scientists And Historians As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner V. Noel Canning, No. 12-1281, United States Supreme Court (Nov. 25, 2013), David F. Forte, Hadley P. Arkes, Joseph M. Bessette, Nelson Lund, Jeremy A. Rabkin, Ralph A. Rossum

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

The Recess Appointments Clause does not permit the unilateral appointments to the NLRB made by the President in this case. Those appointments - made during a three-day “intra-session” break when the Senate was meeting pro forma - are unique in the history of the Republic. They are also the culmination of unnecessary and inappropriate Executive overreaching. This overreaching has undermined a valuable Senate prerogative in a manner unfathomable to the Founders and inconsistent with the design of the Constitution.

The primary purpose of this brief is to show that adhering to the original meaning of the Recess Appointments Clause has …

Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

Amici, representing women from all walks of life, are compelled by experience and conviction to advocate strongly that this Court reverse the vulnerable position of women caused by the lack of information given to women contemplating abortion. Amici respectfully urged this Court to affirm the ruling of the Court below, supporting the efforts of the women citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to cause that government to exercise its police power to protect their health and safety by compelling the dissemination of the information necessary to make a fully informed decision.

Scarlet Letter Punishment: Yesterday's Outlawed Penalty Is Today's Probation Condition, Leonore H. Tavill

Cleveland State Law Review

The use of alternatives has sparked a whole host of new issues. The most significant of these new issues is the determination of who should or should not receive probation' and what kind of probation condition can be justified for certain criminals. Desperation, indefinite statutory provisions, and the resulting judicial discretion afforded to those on the bench has led to the imposition of some probation conditions which are unnecessarily harsh, unjustified, and possibly unconstitutional. Of particular concern is the growing use of "scarlet letter" probation conditions which require signs to be posted on the offender's property warning the public by …