Tag Archives: Executions

Televised Executions: Will Society Ever Get to this Point?

A recent poll by MSNBC asked if people would be interested in watching an execution on live TV. This poll had been asked in the past, and resulted in a large majority of people replying in the negative. The recent poll showed different results. For the first time, the larger amount of people said that […]

Why Capital Punishment Doesn’t Deter Crime

Those in favor of capital punishment believe that the threat of severe punishment should bring the crime rates down and that capital punishment or the death penalty is the ultimate crime deterrent. However because the likelihood of actually getting caught for committing a crime is very low, capital punishment doesn’t do much in the way […]

Movie Review: The Hit List (2011)

Hit List is especially exciting, appealing to the imagination at its heart, prone to the desirable idea of ​​eliminating enemies in real life (see what you wish for). As with all good things, the fantasy eventually turns to terror, as a jocular idea can be terrorized into sleep, a grave death. It’s a brilliant idea, […]

Capital Punishment

Is killing a murderer justice, or retaliation? Capital punishment is a subject that has been under debate for many years. Capital punishment is also known by other names such as the death sentence, execution, and the death penalty, but whatever the name is, the meaning remains the same; a person convicted of a capital crime […]

The Exonerated: A Play with Purpose

On February 9, 10, 11, 2007 the ACT IV Productions theater group will present Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s play The Exonerated. The show will be held at the theater of the First Unitarian Church of Plainfield, 754 Park Avenue, Plainfield, NJ. Tickets are$15. For more information call 908-756-0750. The Exonerated dramatizes the true tales […]