Pago Pago
Pago Pago , town (1990 pop. 10,640) and capital of American Samoa , on the Southern shore of Tutuila island. Pago Pago has an excellent, landlocked harbor and is the only port of call in American Samoa. Tourism and tuna canning are important industries. From 1878 to 1951 it was a coaling and repair station for the U.S. navy. Just south of the town is the Pago Pago International Airport.
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Corporal Punishment.
Magazine article from: Social Theory and Practice; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...literally, the infliction of punishment on the body. Even once it is differentiated from "capital punishment," "corporal punishment" remains a very broad term...refer to a wide spectrum of punishments ranging from forced labor...
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Punishment and the spirit of democracy.(I. Why We Punish: The Foundation of Our Concepts of Punishment)
Magazine article from: Social Research; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; PUNISHMENT THAT IS ADMINISTERED DIRECTLY...defense of the reasons for punishment that wins common assent...explanation and defense of punishment remain open to dispute...pain, but sometimes about capital punishment, too.) "What...
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Capital punishment
Magazine article from: Law & Order; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...modification and clarification of capital punishment legal issues and the imposition...code statutes providing for capital punishment under specified circumstances...advisory recommendation on capital punishment that is not binding on the...
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Capital Punishment in America.
Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review; 5/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...held the then-existing system of capital punishment unconstitutional, no executions occurred...the most important issues relating to capital punishment. After providing an overview of capital punishment in the United States, Paternoster...
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Just punishment?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...irreligious society, capital punishment teaches something else...doing away with capital punishment teaches that life is...and the severity of punishments imposed. When persons...claim that substantial punishment should be imposed...established his claims that capital ...
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Capital Punishment in the United States - A Documentary History.
Magazine article from: Corrections Today; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...passionately debated as capital punishment. Academicians...context of capital punishment. For example, in...papers on capital punishment, An Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments Upon Criminals and...subjected to a variety of capital laws that did not...Essay ...
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE BIBLE.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 10/11/1997; 700+ words
; ...Catholic Church's opposition to capital punishment. His Another View (Sept...sinned but now believe on him. Capital punishment is demonstrated justice, and...According to the Bible, capital punishment not only is justice but it...
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Is capital punishment morally required? Acts, omissions, and life-life tradeoffs.
Magazine article from: Stanford Law Review; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...INTRODUCTION I. EVIDENCE II. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: MORAL FOUNDATIONS AND FOUR...contend that, as administered, capital punishment ensures the execution of...penalty. (3) Defenders of capital punishment can be separated into two different...
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Capital punishment and violence.
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...inflicts an unusually severe punishment no more than 50 times a year...inference is strong that the punishment is not being regularly and...also found that excessive punishments are prohibited and concluded...deterrent as execution, capital punishment was excessive. Justice Thurgood...
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Capital punishment 'makes reason stare'
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 10/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON -- Of capital punishment, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...crimes for which Romney wants capital punishment reserved -- the especially...meaning narrowly, drawn capital punishment statute is necessarily problematic...
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Punishment
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...mutilation (corporal punishment), imprisonment, or banishment. Some punishments were especially creative...the sea. The ancient punishments were brought to England...death penalty, or capital punishment, was imposed in England...
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Capital Punishment
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...were early critics of capital punishment. The rebellion against...Essay on Crime and Punishment (1764), and others...critique of capital punishment. Benjamin Rush...Effects of Public Punishments upon Criminals and...
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capital punishment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
capital punishment imposition of...the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient...the modern era, capital punishment was practiced throughout...the abolition of capital punishment began in the 18th cent...Beccaria 's Essay on Crimes and ...
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Changing Views Toward the Punishment of Criminals
Book article from: American Eras
...de Montesquieu, who opposed capital punishment as monarchical and contrary...x2019; s view was that capital punishment violated a citizen ’...reform and the abolition of capital punishment was Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia...
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...Trop v. Dulles ). Punishments, the Court said...The question whether capital punishment was cruel and unusual...1976). Such a punishment may not be employed...cruel and unusual punishment. Legislative repeal of traditional corporal punishments has so far mooted...
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