Despite decades of efforts to improve justice in the imposition of the death penalty, statistics
show that to this day racial minorities and men are much more likely to be sentenced to the
death penalty than white felons and women for identical crimes.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Research reliable sources (such as the web site of the Department of Justice) to identify
the most recent statistics nationwide on imposition of the death penalty by race, gender,
and economic class.
2. Research reliable sources to identify the most recent statistics on imposition of the death
penalty in your own state (or a neighboring state if your state does not have the death
penalty).
3. Should this continued racial and gender disparity be sufficient to conclude that the death
penalty cannot be administered fairly and should be abolished? What could be done to
eradicate these unfair disparities?
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Identify the sample OR population of the following inductive generalization. You may assume that the premises in each of the arguments are true. In a survey of 10,000 members of the U.S. Navy, two-thirds of those interviewed expressed a moderate fear of flying. So, it's probably the case that about twothirds of all military servicemen have a modest fear of flying. What is the population?
a. About 2/3rds of all military servicemen b. All military servicemen c. All military servicemen with a modest fear of flying
Conflicts of interest are an ethical problem for a business because they
A. violate an individual's right to privacy B. create profits that would be owed to other companies instead C. create incentive for company representatives to act against others' best interest D. prevent the company from succeeding as well as it might otherwise
What is the argument from religious experience for the existence of God? Is it sound? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
The following sentence is a statement: "Who let the dogs out?"
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)