Sociology 111 Extra Credit The Confessions is a video that is about four U.S navy sailors that are arrested for the murder and rape of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Based on this video all men are also interrogated, have negative DNA results, and have no evidence regarding this crime scene. Daniel Williams, Joe dick, Derek trice and Eric Wilson were all charged with the murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Although all four men stories were completely different, they all signed a confession form out of fear of the death penalty and the jury didn’t believe them. So they were all found guilty.
The whites, being outnumbered, were forced off the train. The white kids, seeking revenge, told the train master that some of the black kids on the train had assaulted them. The train master immediately sent a message to the next station. A sheriff’s posse was formed and stopped the train near Paint Rock, Alabama. The posse rounded up every young black male and nine were taken to the jail in Scottsboro.
Bundy was a necrophiliac who admitted to beheading 12 of his victims. Biographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after". On June 7, 1977, after being convicted for his crimes Bundy escaped jail and was on the FBI’s top ten most wanted fugitives. He was later found and put back on death row where he admitted to his crimes and took full responsibility for his crimes. Ted Bundy was executed on January 24, 1989 in
The Scottsboro Boys On the night of March 25, 1931, a deputy sheriff in Paint Creek Alabama stopped a freight train travelling from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They arrested nine black men ranging in age from 12 to 20 on the train. They also found two young white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, dressed in men’s’ overalls. Price claimed she was raped by six of the young men, while Bates claimed she was raped by the other three. All of the nine men were arrested and taken to the Jackson County jail in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Bulger suffered multiple skull fractures from blows to the head, and was sexually abused by the two older boys. After the beatings, they left Bulger’s lifeless body across the railway tracks so that his body would be cut in half. Police were able to pin Venables and Thompson because of video images that captured Bulger’s abduction from the mall. DNA testing matched the blood found on the boys’ shoes to Bulger. Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court.
Two years before Simpson was convicted, Rodney King was severely beaten by the Los Angeles Police Department. He was African American and was attacked by white policemen. Many of the residents that were African American felt that the Los Angeles police victimized them due to the color of their skin. They had full support of OJ when he went to trial. Race played a huge role in this trial.
Racism and prejudice inside and outside, same races, and schools still happen today. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there was a lot of racism in and out of the schools. As we both know Tom Robinson was accused of rape from Mayella Ewell. But in the court room when the judge is speaking to Tom, we as an audience realize that he did not rape her. From her story to the scar nothing matches up to what she is saying, but because he had an all white jury, they found him guilty.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the rape trail of Tom Robinson vs Mayella Ewell, an African American man accused of raping a white teenage girl was held in a bias court room of Maycomb County. Tom Robinson was proven innocent but the end verdict did not match the proof, because no jury would chose to listen to a black man over a white girl due to the state of prejudice Maycomb was under. Racism this town got to the point where when Atticus Finch, a white lawyer chose to represent Tom in the case he was a disgrace and an outcast to the white community. Not only Atticus but his children all suffered from the judgement they were receiving from the whole community for Atticus representing an innocent man. Since children were exposed to this behavior the racism has been passed down to generation to generation.
Shortly after grieving for the loss of his daughter’s innocence, Carl Lee seeks counsel with the lawyer Jake Brigance. They discuss a similar case where four white men raped a black girl and were set free. Knowing that that these two men could more than likely walk free, Carl Lee takes justice into his own hands and shoots both men down including his childhood friend deputy Dwayne Looney. Carl Lee is immediately arrested and put on trial for the murder of the two white men. As the story continues, Carl Lee hires on Jake Brigance who valiantly accepts the case knowing the dangers and challenges involved in obtaining it.
In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped. Ted Bundy killed three people in Florida and was arrested but his parents bailed him out and he sold his car but police impounded it away from new owner. It was then when forensic evidence finally solved this case by finding three different hairs matching the three victims killed in Ted’s car and matched his teeth marks the a bite mark on one of the victims. He was then was sentenced to three death penalties in 1978 when Ted was recaptured and on January 24, 1989 at Railford prison in Starke, Florida Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair. My opinion on this case was interesting yet disgusting but Ted Bundy was smart about how he attracted his victims.