Persuasive Essay On The Bali Nine

Australian society has ultimately rejected the idea of the practice of capital punishment making a return into the Australian law books. However, events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Bali bombings have ensured that the spotlight once again shines on the controversial subject. I am in favour of the practice returning to Australia for heinous crimes such as murder, child molestation, serial rapists, and people who commit acts of animal cruelty. This is because:

In conclusion, to sum up the whole thoughts, Bali Nine initially has existed for over one decade. It begins in 2005, when Indonesian police caught nine Australians were bringing 8.3kg kokain. The drug smuggling issue became famous dramatically because two of the nine people in Bali Nine case were received the death penalty from the Indonesian court. The thing also became worse, when Jokowi, Indonesian president decided to cancel all of the judicial review and process the executions immediately. Moreover, the Australian government put lots of efforts to change the Indonesian government decision, particularly on Joko Widodo as the head of the government and state in Indonesia. Nevertheless, both of the Indonesian and Australian government remains

He then states that the Bali nine had ‘flouted’ the ‘sovereign rights and penalties’ suggesting that they openly disregarded them without any regret. Following this, he provides rough statistics about the consequences that would follow: ‘hundreds, if not thousands, of lives would have been affected.’ Linnell supports these statistics by providing a visual image showing both the Chan and Sukumaran family supporting each other. By providing the reader with this image, the author provokes the audience with fear that although the family is sticking together, ‘affected lives’ would consequently be pulled apart. The author provides the reader with rhetorical questions relating to the context, questioning whether Sukumaran and Chan would ‘...have gone on to lead simple lives filled with redemption and remorse...’ Contrasting this, he questions whether they would have, like so many others, ‘bought themselves a flashy home… drive a flashy car’ and ‘expunge from their mind the damage their deeds may have caused so many others’ and instead would go on to ‘reap’ the benefits in awe of how they got away with ‘such a ridiculous get-rich-quick scheme’. In this argument, Linnell depicts the two ringleaders as people who would have reaped the benefits, oblivious and blind to their own ‘damaging deeds’ if they had gotten away and not received the death penalty. This causes the reader to feel more inclined to believing that Sukumaran and Chan should receive the death penalty as they deserved it from their damaging actions, and do not deserve to ‘reap the benefits’ that others have suffered from, therefore agreeing to the author’s

In 2005, nine young Australian men were arrested in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesia. The group’s two ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were sentenced to death by the Indonesian court. With all appeals for clemency rejected, they were executed by firing squad on the 29th April 2015 (‘Bali Nine: Timeline of key events’, 2015). Following the execution, many members of the public questioned whether this decision by the Indonesian Government was justified. Relating arguments from different perspective including the Indonesia’s sovereign right, debated the effect on the international relationship and the deterrent effect on the drug trade in Indonesia. Although the men were already executed, it is important to understanding the rationality of the justification behind this decision, as it determines whether to support or to prevent similar decision, if and when the same situation happen again.

Argumentative Essay on Capital Punishment in Australia Capital punishment is barbaric and inhumane and should not be re-introduced into Australia. Although capital punishment has been abolished, the debate on this topic has never abated. When a particularly heinous crime is committed, this debate arouses strong passions on both sides. Many who advocate the abolition of capital punishment consider the death penalty to be cruel and inhuman, while those who favor of punishment by death see it as a form of just retribution for the gravest of crimes.

Columbine High school 12 students and 1 teacher dead, Thurston High School 2 dead and 25 wounded, Sandy Hook Elementary 20 children and 6 teachers dead, Virginia Tech University 32 dead and 17 wounded and Umpqua Community College 9 dead and 9 wounded. After the Thurston shooting happened, we took necessary precautions so we would be prepared for an incident like again. Yet Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Umpqua happened anyway. Even though we implemented ALICE training in order to be safer, hiding with entries blocked won’t be enough in some cases especially if the police take a long time to get to the school and stop the shooter. There are a couple ways that would not only make the school safer but also stop the shooter quicker so we can save more lives and not have to wait for the police to arrive. One solution we can do is give teachers and staff that haven’t had any experience with guns at least basic training in the use of guns

Legal Affairs Reporter, Cristian Farias, in his article, “The Supreme Court Let a Man Die. He Was Executed With The Wrong Drug.”, and columnist, Manny Fernandez, in his column, “Delays as Death-Penalty Sates Scramble for Execution Drugs” describes the conflicting issues involving the use of certain drugs for the death-penalty. Farias’ purpose is to demonstrate the disastrous decisions the Supreme Court and Oklahoma made. However, Fernandez’s purpose is to inform the readers about how the execution drugs is affecting states all over the country. Both authors were informative and gave intriguing facts, but Farias connected with the audience more and Fernandez created a serious tone to convey to the readers how it is impacting people’s lives.

In this essay I will be discussing how the Australian media affects Indigenous Australians through negative and positive news reports, how journalists

The liberal ideology is based in the values of individualism, in that the individual themselves is important in their pursuit and struggle for freedom. There are some factors that are common in liberalism, some of which include: liberty, formation of equality and dominance of individuals in bearing within their society. This essay will discuss these ideas of liberalism in relation to how they support the controversial issue of capital punishment. Capital punishment is the sentencing of someone who has committed a serious offence to death. Capital punishment was practiced in Australia since the British colonisation and formally abolished when it was last used in 1967. Only in 2010 did federal legislation prohibit capital punishment in all Australian states and territories. The attitudes towards capital punishment are multidimensional and complex, which makes determining the public’s opinion a complicated issue. There has been research that has found that an individual’s attitude towards capital punishment is reflective of one’s ideological self-image. There is worry that liberals could ground retributive justice in concrete, in that they could enforce more if that’s what they feel the public is looking for. Another issue for both the public and the government is that many people are ignorant on the factual issues that have to do with the death penalty, which can affect people’s opinions and therefore their actions on the

Written by Cindy Wockner, the Bali 9 Clock Ticks newspaper article appearing in the Herald Sun serves as a neat, professional update on the predicament of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. Written in typical newspaper fashion, the article underlies themes of desperation, hopelessness and fear in a detached string of paragraphs.

The practice of torture by United States officials has become one of the most controversial elements of military history. The debate of its use in gathering intelligence has been particularly prevalent since the Bush administration. Most recently, a detailed and graphic scene of torture was presented in the movie Zero Dark Thirty. Proponents for the use of torture state that it is necessary for intelligence gathering and that ethics should be waved aside. Opponents argue that it is not becoming of American practices and it is not a reliable source for intelligence gathering. The public debates on this issue have forced policy makers and military officials to look at whether or not torture, particularly waterboarding, should be legal. The

Capital punishment is one of the most controversial topics in today’s world. Many people believe that it is morally wrong to have capital punishment as a sentence to a crime. People also do believe that it is morally permissible for a severe crime. Capital punishment is also known as the death penalty. It can be given as a sentence when somebody is convicted of an extremely violent crime. The biggest issue that can be seen with this is that somebody could be innocent and sentenced with the death penalty because of the nature of the crime that they have been accused of even if they didn’t commit it. I believe that there is a moral line between using the death penalty and using other forms of punishment.

Indonesia is by far the largest Southeast Asian nation, both in population and land area with the majority of the population, Muslim (OMF International, n.d). Indonesia, also has one of the strictest laws regarding drug offences and has demonstrated to not be afraid or be persuaded by neighboring states not to enforce it (Aquino, n.d). Eight out of the eleven countries within Southeast Asia still retain the death penalty for drug related offences in which Indonesia is the only country within Southeast Asia that still carries out its executions by firing squad (Death Penalty Information Centre, 2013) (see Table 1). The death penalty was extended to include drug offences and only introduced into Indonesian law in 1997 (Berman, 2013). However, Indonesia continues to enforce this penalty in the wake of the 2013 execution of a Malawian national becoming the first execution in some years (see Table 2) (Delaney, 2013, ¶23).

The death penalty is a prosecute that is used to kill criminals that have committed crimes that are so bad they should not be left alive. The idea of putting another human to death is hard to completely fathom. The physical mechanics involved in the act of execution are easy to grasp, but the emotions involved in carrying out a death sentence on another person, regardless of how much they deserve it, is beyond my understanding. Knowing that it must be painful, dehumanizing, and sickening. The Eight Amendment says” Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” (Constitutions). And for the article Changing Views on\\e rate has gone down at a steady from the 1990 to now and that they death penalty is sometimes necessary, and it is our responsibility as a society to see that it is done.

The modern era in literature occupied the late years of nineteenth and early years of twentieth century. The period was marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against established religious, traditional, political, and social views. It was an influential period that shaped the development of western civilization throughout the twentieth century. A thorough analysis of modern philosophy, culture, and art reveals the mindset of modernity and how the historical events of the era influenced life during the early 1900s.