Bennett Barbour In 1978, a man named Bennett Barbour was convicted of rape and spent 4.5 years in prison until finally proven innocent by DNA testing performed by The Virginia Department of Forensic Science’s post conviction testing project. On February 7, 1978, a student that was 19 years old, that attended William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, was raped in her fiancé’s apartment held at gunpoint. Soon after the rape happened, the victim alerted the police. When investigators arrived at the apartment, the victim described the assailant as 5’ 6” and weighed about 145 pounds. After a week had passed since the crime, the victim was shown photos that had possibly matched the description that was given to the investigators.
Rodney King had reached a settlement worth 4 million dollars and later on two of the four officers were sent to prison and the other two were acquitted. In TKAM Tom Robinson was sentenced to prison for alleged rape and was sentenced for death. Tom Robinson’s trial wasn’t really a fair one because the whole jury was twelve white men which were biased toward the victim. Tom Robinson was sent to a local prison house to be detained until he goes to the federal prison but he escaped that night and was shot by one of the officers in charge there while he was running. Tom Robinson’s case was an example of injustice due to the fact that the jurors had not gathered any evidence that proved Tom Robinsons guilt, Atticus had proved the court wrong but that was not enough for a racist and biased group of jurors to allow Tom Robinson to leave freely.
Psychologically speaking depression can be a ramification because again the inmates are in their cells 22 hours a day. The cells are small and they are deprived of social communication. Going outside is a privilege to most. The time given to the inmates can be viewed as living under barbaric conditions even though we are speaking about criminals. Agnew posits that “deprived” communities are more likely to be populated by “strained” individuals and that these communities will suffer from more blocked opportunity structures, (Hoffman, 2003).
Just months after his release from prison. Rex was arrested for the rape of Shelly Crosby and the attempted rape of Anishka Constantine in 1987. The judge sentenced Krebs to twenty years in prison. The judge encouraged Rex to participate in as many programs as possible while behind bars to avoid becoming a repeat sex offender. Rex was sent
For such a “senseless act of alcohol-fuelled violence” quoted from THE CONVERSATION titled THE THOMAS KELLY CASE. Kieran Loveridge pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced a minimum of four years jail time. Thomas wasn’t the first person Kieran Loveridge hit that night, nor was he the last. Kieran was quoted by the DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWS on OCTOBER 26TH stating, “was that one
The jury ruled that he should be sent to the electric chair; however, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty and he was to receive life in prison. Due to the overpopulation in the Texas prison he was sent to, McDuff was quietly released from prison into an unsuspecting citizenry (“Deterrent” 3). Shortly after he was released, Texas prostitutes were coming up missing and were later found dead. McDuff continued killing unsuspecting women for four years after he was quietly released from prison. He was later caught because there was a witness that claimed to see what turned out to be his car speeding away from where one of his victims disappeared from.
After a two day trial the Michigan jury found Kevorkian guilty to second-degree murder and was charged with 10 to 25 years in prison. Kevorkian was later released from prison and died June, 3 2011 at the age of 83. Should we allow people to end their lives and “die with dignity?” I believe that the United States should legalize assisted
Mr. Morin was charged with the crime of first degree murder on the date of April 22, 1985. On February 7th, 1986 Mr. Morin was acquitted. On June 5th, 1987 a new trial was order by the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada on November 17th, 1988. Upon the new trial Mr. Morin was convicted and found guilty of the murder of Christine Jessup on July 30th, 1992. After severing almost 10 years in jail on the day of January 23, 1995 Guy Paul Morin was exonerated as a finding done by a new DNA testing which was not previously available before.
Malcolm X was born in a time of segregation and poverty. He had only eight years of formal education but twenty six years of street life when arrested in 1946. X was incarcerated for the robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison. While in prison he put his time to good use and taught himself anything and everything. If X had never gone to prison it is doubtful he would have risen to such power.
Calley wound up spending three and a half years under house arrest at Fort Benning Georgia, where a federal judge ultimately ordered his release.” (Powers, 2013). Even though these two men were obeying orders they were both tried and found guilty of committing murder. These men regardless if they opted to obey the orders or not would have been tired. Either as murderers or as violating UCMJ Articles. It is an ever losing situation and these cases are still going and murderers from this ending war will eventually be brought to trial for killing innocent by