Cruel Consequences
Cruel Consequences

Author: Amanda Siegrist

Publisher: Amanda Siegrist

Published:

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 195588644X

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From USA Today bestselling author Amanda Siegrist comes an intense romantic suspense that will hold you on the edge-of-your-seat until the very end. Some consequences can be so…cruel. Working cold cases never bothered Detective Wyatt Stromberg—until one unimaginably brutal murder that haunts his dreams. Finding closure for the victim’s sister Briella becomes an obsession. She’s equally tormented by guilt that she failed her sister and is determined to ensure the killer faces justice. As they grow dangerously close to the truth, and each other, the killer resurfaces, and he has his sights on Briella. Why now? Why allow a year to pass first? It doesn’t matter—Wyatt vows to protect Briella no matter what. But the killer’s sinister game of cat-and-mouse lurks around every corner, testing Wyatt’s limits. To save Briella, Wyatt must walk a tightrope between breaking protocol and breaking the law. With lives on the line, can he toe that precarious line before the killer checkmates them all? With harrowing twists and turns, this gripping thriller will leave romantic suspense fans on the edge of their seats. Don’t miss the next intense book in the Consequences series! The entire Consequences series: (Each book can be read as a standalone.) Dark Consequences (Book 1): Tate & Abby Cruel Consequences (Book 2): Wyatt & Briella

Cruel and Usual Punishment
Cruel and Usual Punishment

Author: Nonie Darwish

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2009-01-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1418572063

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Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia. But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law: A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed The husband of a "rebellious" wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest Think it can't happen? In 2008, England?once the seat of Western liberty and now the home of many Muslim immigrants?declared that Sharia courts in Britain have the force of law. When Muslim populations reach as little as 1 or 2 percent, says Darwish, they begin making demands of the larger community, such as foot-level faucets for washing before praying in public schools, businesses, and airports. "Airports in Kansas City, Phoenix, and Indianapolis are among those who have already installed foot baths for Muslim cab drivers," writes Darwish. These demands test how far Westerners will go in accommodating the Muslim minority. How far will they push? The Organization of the Islamic Conference works to Islamize international human rights laws and apply Sharia "standards" for blasphemy to all nations. The penalty for blasphemy? Death. Weaving personal experience together with extensive documentation and research, Darwish exposes the facts and reveals the global threat posed by Sharia law. Anyone concerned about Western rights and liberties ignores her warning and analysis at their peril.

Cruel and Unusual
Cruel and Unusual

Author: Anne-Marie Cusac

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0300155492

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The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.

Death Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment
Death Penalty: A Cruel and Inhuman Punishment

Author: Luis Arroyo Zapatero

Publisher: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 8490441138

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Death penalty: A cruel and inhuman punishment is an academic contribution by Academics for abolition aimed at fostering the debate launched by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 62/149 on 18 December 2007, calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions by 2015, and continued by the upcoming review process of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is mainly a compilation of papers written by the speakers at the Seminar “Against cruel and inhuman punishment and death penalty”, which took place at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid, on 9 June 2013, on the eve of the 5th World Congress against the death penalty. The book deals with current issues of the process towards abolition as the lack of evidence about the deterrence effect of death penalty and its consideration as a cruel and inhuman punishment. Together with the editors, the contribution includes studies, among others, of H.J. Albrecht, Gabrio Forti, Roger Hood, Salim Himnat and Sergio García Ramírez. The Academic International Network against the Death Penalty (REPECAP) dedicates this book to the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Author: Joseph A. Melusky

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-02-21

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1576076059

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In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.S. history, Cruel and Unusual Punishment stands out as a levelheaded, even-handed, and thorough analysis of the issue. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution created one of the nation's most valued freedoms but, at the same time, one of its most persistent controversies. On 184 separate occasions, the Supreme Court attempted to decide what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." Constitutional scholars Joseph A. Melusky and Judge Keith A. Pesto help readers make sense of the controversy. The authors begin by sketching the context of the debate in a general overview that addresses issues such as excessive bails and fines, and noncapital offenses. But their primary focus is capital punishment. In a detailed, chronologically ordered discussion, they trace the evolving opinion of the nation's highest court from the late 19th century to the present, analyzing issues, arguments, holdings, and outcomes.

Unusually Cruel
Unusually Cruel

Author: Marc Morjé Howard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-06-16

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190659351

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The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea bargaining, sentencing, prison conditions, rehabilitation, parole, and societal reentry - the U.S. is harsher and more punitive than other comparable countries. In Unusually Cruel, Marc Morjé Howard argues that the American criminal justice and prison systems are exceptional - in a truly shameful way. Although other scholars have focused on the internal dynamics that have produced this massive carceral system, Howard provides the first sustained comparative analysis that shows just how far the U.S. lies outside the norm of established democracies. And, by highlighting how other countries successfully apply less punitive and more productive policies, he provides plausible solutions to addressing America's criminal justice quagmire.

William R. McIntyre
William R. McIntyre

Author: William H. McConnell

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780886293413

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Spanked
Spanked

Author: Christina L. Erickson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0197518230

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"Provides a history of spanking, including the transition from instruments to the hand; Reviews relevant research over the last 100 years on spanking outcomes; Identifies the social and cultural supports of spanking including legal standing; Includes thought provoking prompts on what it means to be a parent"