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The death Penalty Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the Seventh Century B.C.'s Draconian Code

History and presentation Capital punishment, the death penalty is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head. Today, there are many methods of execution as: * Hanging * Lethal injection * Guillotine * Beheading * Firing squad * Electrocution (electric chair)

Rights Act sera progressivement abandonné avant d'être déclaré inconstitutionnel par la Cour suprême en 1880, dans le cadre des Civil Rights Cases. 7 juin La ségrégaton raciale aux Etats-Unis Homer Plessy, métisse, est arrêté car il refuse de quitter la place qu'il occupe dans un compartiment réservé aux Blancs dans un train de la Nouvelle-Orléans (Louisiane). Cet événement mènera la Cour Suprême des Etats-Unis, dans le procès "Plessy contre Ferguson", à adopter la doctrine "séparés mais égaux"

Ku Klu Klan : The name "Ku Klux Klan" began to be used by several independent groups. Beginning in the 1950s, for instance, individual Klan groups in Birmingham, Alabama began to resist social change and blacks' improving their lives by bombing houses in transitional neighborhoods. There were so many bombings in Birmingham of blacks' homes by Klan groups in the 1950s that the city's nickname was "Bombingham".[11] During the tenure of Bull Connor as police commissioner in the city, Klan groups were

ENGLISH Case: KKK wants hit the streets of Manhattan. The court of first instance tried that the Ku Klux Klan had the right to march masked. The Mayor Guiliani’s against the decision, saying the procession would be a provocation under Black, Latinos and Jewish people. He added the march could be dangerous cause riots it could trigger. If we examine the Klansmen’s request it’s a matter of a procession without violence, the aim being to pronounce a speech and to assemble people sharing

HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY For the Abolition of the Death Penalty in America: The Advocacy of Robert Badinter Martin A. Rogoff* Robert Badinter, Contre la peine de mort: Écrits 1970-2006 (Librarie Arthème Fayard, Paris, 2006), pp. 320; Robert Badinter, L’Abolition (Librarie Arthème Fayard, Paris, 2000), pp. 286. ABSTRAcT This essay reviews two books by Robert Badinter, former President of France’s Constitutional Council and former French Minister of Justice. Taken together, they describe his successful

Religious History of the United States • The United States has its origins in religious controversy • First major settlement in the 1620s by religious dissidents called Puritans • The Puritans arrived in the ‘New World’ with a strong sense of historical mission and quickly established a social and cultural life centred around the Church (a theocracy) • John Winthrop “A Modell of Christian Charity” : “wee must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us

been using the constitution since 1787. - Le congrès est composé de 2 chambres = The congress is composed of 2 chambers. - Consist on/off entraine nom derrière. Consist in entraine un verbe derrière. - Le même que … = The same as … - Les Etats Unis sont un grand pays = The US « is » … (The Etats Unis = It). - Obama est président depuis 2008 = Obama has been president since 2008. - Tout les adjectives de pays ont une majuscule en anglais (American Constitution,…). - Le federalisme =the federalism

Watergate 1 introduction The scandal of Watergate is in its origin an affair of political spying which to results Richard Nixon on the resignation of the president of the United States, in 1974.(nineteen hundred seventy four) It affair begins with the revelation journalists of Washington Post of the pose of microphones in the places of the Democratic Party in the building of Watergate in Washington in 1972. (nineteen hundred seventy two) Journalists' investigations and a long senatorial inquiry

Introduction Capital punishment in the United States varies by jurisdiction. In practice it applies only for aggravated murder and more rarely for felony murder or contract killing. Capital punishment existed in the colonies that predated the United States and that were later annexed to the United States under the laws of their mother countries and continued to have effect in the states and territories they became. The methods of execution and the crimes subject to the penalty vary by jurisdiction and