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The Paul Bernanrdo And Karla Hamolka Case
In this essay, I will focus on the sentence and police officers’ decision in the Paul Bernanrdo and Karla Hamolka case, both known as “The Ken and Barbie Killers”. Since I am finishing my last year in Social Sciences profile Law, Society and Justice, I am interested to work on a famous Canadian trial that affected the whole Canadian population and even the United States. The decision made by police officers was controversial and brought many debates, thus I will analyze this decision under two ethical theories and determine whether they were right or wrong. For my analysis, I will use the Utilitarianism Ethics and Kantian Ethics. These two theories of ethics have different goals and understanding of rightful and wrongful actions.
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