Post Tagged with: "Elizabeth Echard"

Working to End Discrimination Against Disabled Voters

By: Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer   Currently, forty million Americans have a disability.[1] Of those forty million disabled Americans, sixteen million voted in 2016.[2] That shows a mere 40% of disabled citizens vote, compared to the 58% of United States citizens, as a whole, that voted in 2016.[3] Many issues […]

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Using Technology of the 21st Century to Solve Crime

  By Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer   Could Fitbit’s, Amazon Echo’s, and other devices be the newest tools in solving crime? On December 23, 2015, Connie Dabate was shot and killed in her home.[1] When detectives interviewed her husband, Richard Dabate, he stated that he put his two children on […]

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Mass Shootings in America: What is the Answer?

By Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer Since 1966, 1,077 victims, ranging from the unborn to the elderly, have been killed in America in mass shootings.[1] While no universally accepted definition for “mass shooting” exists, these statistics look to the 150 shootings in America where four or more people were killed by […]

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Exploring Capital Punishment

By Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer Should criminals be put to death for the crimes they commit? The topic of capital punishment has always been a sensitive issue in the United States.  Many individuals have specific opinions as to whether our present society should support such actions.  Many debates have focused […]

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