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When looking at the case of The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens and the punishment that the two men face after conviction is one that requires a lot of thought (Brody and Acker, 2010). These two men were faced with a difficult situation that due to their being in a position of making life threating decisions that would determine if they all lived or if they all died with the sacrifice of one saving the other three men. These two men’s fate, after their criminal conviction, should be evaluated with the circumstances of the crime of murder with the intent of the two men to survive while stuck in the middle of the ocean with no way out (Gollwitzer and Keller, 2010). When humans are left out in nature with nothing to eat or drink this starts
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