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But footnotes are the wrong way to link in the web anyway. Why not turn the footnotes into live links in the paper? All but two of your sources are cited by URL in the footnotes, and those should have been live links to start with. | | | America in a World Context | |
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< | Benjamin Franklin said, “better that one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent person should suffer.” Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet Secret police commanded “better to execute ten innocent men than to leave one guilty man alive.| Source. Franklin’s words epitomize the criminal justice system that America believes it has, just and democratic. Statements like Dzerzhinsky’s are used as examples of “other” governments, which stand for injustice and oppression. Thurman Arnold says that social creeds, like justice and democracy, mean nothing outside of the institutions which they are attached to | Works Cited. America’s use of the death penalty exemplifies this. While statement’s like Franklin’s purport the United States to be fair and democratic, the facts show that capital punishment resounds in injustice. In a nation that often separates “us,” systems upholding similar values, from “them,” systems to be feared or conquered, America’s utilization of capital punishment puts the US in the latter category. | >
> | Benjamin Franklin said, “better that one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent person should suffer.” Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet Secret police commanded “better to execute ten innocent men than to leave one guilty man alive.| Source. Franklin’s words epitomize the criminal justice system that America believes itself to have, one that is just and democratic. Statements like Dzerzhinsky’s are used as examples of “other” governments, which stand for injustice and oppression. Thurman Arnold says that social creeds, like justice and democracy, mean nothing outside of the institutions which they are attached to | Works Cited. America’s use of the death penalty exemplifies this. While statement’s like Franklin’s purport the United States to be fair and democratic, the facts show that capital punishment resounds in injustice. In a nation that often separates “us,” systems upholding similar values, from “them,” systems to be feared or conquered, America’s utilization of capital punishment puts the US in the latter category. | | | The United States is the only western country to use capital punishment, and according to Amnesty International, America had the sixth highest execution rate in 2006 behind countries America identifies as enemies: Iran and Iraq | Source. Recently, the United States announced its decision to seek death for 9/11 detainees. Knowing that this decision will be questioned by countries the United States considers part of the “us,” the government sent a memo to its embassies comparing the 9/11 trials to Nuremberg as justification. While America asserts itself as a just and free democracy, its use of capital punishment actually separates it from its allies, who find capital punishment to be contradictory to the values America claims to uphold. |
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