"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." --Albert Camus Life. This little four-letter word is so perplexing and difficult to define. Sure, Webster has its own definition. Yet, scholars and...

The Death Penalty An American Tradition Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 802 people have been executed nationwide (DPIC). Among those executed have been minors, the mentally retarded, and the innocent. Capital punishment is fallible, irrevocable, expensive, and filled wit...

Capital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since the earliest of times. The Babylonian Hammurabi Code(ca. 1700 B.C.) decreed death for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer(Flanders 3). Egyptians could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial...