Many nativist and anti-radical sentiments were apparent in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants, were arrested for the murder of the paymaster and the guard of a South Briantree, Massachusetts shoe factory. They were also charged with robbing the shoe factory of $17,776.51 on that April 15th, 1920 night. Sacco and Vanzetti were known anarchists and during their prosecution harped on their radicalism. The judge in their case harbored negative sentiments towards the two men, because of his own conservative Yankee Republican standing.
Admission Ticket 4 Twelve Angry Men From the movie, it was seen that the power of the testimonies given by the eyewitnesses was huge to the juries and it was suggested that a ‘vivid eyewitness account is difficult to erase from juror’s minds ( Leippe,1985) and hence more likely to result in a conviction (Visher,1987). Therefore the jurors should take the misinformation effect into account. For example, a witness heard the boy shouted “I’m going to kill ya” few hours before the father was killed, may lead the witness assumed the boy was the murderer. And also the woman who claimed to see the murder while juror #8 tried to query her reliability of not wearing any visual aids at that time. Although juror #8 was the only one who voted “not guilty” in the open ballot of the earlier scene, he was as Myers (2010) explained that a minority was most persuasive when their arguments were “consistent, persistent and self-confident”.
However, this was not enough for the newly acclaimed serial killer. He sought out Kathryn Bright on April 14, 1974. This time he stabbed his victim while she was tied up and then strangled her. At first she was not thought of as a BTK victim, until a letter was sent to the Wichita Eagle-Beacon in October of 1974. This is when Dennis Rader took credit for his crimes and taunted authorities with his games and signed the letter BTK (Bind, torture and kill).
On Thursday, April 18th, three days after the attack, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was found dead near the campus. That same night a SUV was hijacked, keeping the victim in the car. The victim later escaped and the police tracked the two suspects as they were driving in two different vehicles. Police pursued the stolen vehicles to the Boston suburb of Watertown. Between the hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM on April 19th Dzhokar and Tamerlan were spotted and they engaged in a shoot-out with the officers.
This book explores the views of eight different men who have well-educated yet differing opinions on the issue. In this book I am drawn to the experiences of Alex Kazinski, a federal judge for the court of appeals. He discusses the case of a young man named Thomas Baal who brutally stabbed a thirty-four year old woman for money in 1988 (2-4). Kazinski states, “Whatever qualms I had about the efficacy or the morality of the death penalty were drowned out by the pitiful cries of the victims screaming from between the lines of a dry legal prose” (Bedau and Cassell 3). He goes on to explain how Mr. Baal refuses his right to appeal and instead expresses his wish to be put to death (Bedau and Cassell
Vanzetti was also involved in a previous robbery. In Massachusetts on April 15th 1920 a paymaster and his guard were delivering a payroll to a shoe factory in the afternoon. Both men were shot outside of the factory and the money was taken and the killers had drove away. The car was found abandoned in the woods several days later. Through evidence found in the car, police suspected that a man named Mike Boda was involved.
Alberto Vasquez academic essay rough draft Death penalty Presented by AL * Sometimes there are many who are innocent and are prosecuted and found guilty for crimes one did not commit. The United States of America is among one of three other countries that has a death penalty and has misrepresented opposition to the death penalty and the way death penalty has been enforced and generally the lack of trust in the prosecutors, making a life-death decision. In the contrary killing is a wrong principle is when that killing is directly defensive, not offensive. It is a coherent position. * As of April 1996, as the death penalty in America current controversies, more than three thousand people were under death sentence in the United States, in 1995, fifty convicts were executed and more than two hundred were sentenced to death.
An example of how the 1920s were not an age of tolerance was how immigrants were treated badly; a demonstration of this was the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian-American men, who were arrested and charged with murder and robbery in Massachusetts. They were armed when arrested but there was not enough evidence to pin the blame on them, however they were still found guilty by the judge and sentenced to the electric chair. This just showed how they were caught up in an atmosphere of intolerance and anti-radical prejudice because of their origins and political views. A new trial was rejected and the men were executed in August 1927. The fate of the 2 men symbolised the antipathy felt towards foreigners after the First World War and unfortunately immigrants were the most obvious recipients of this, thus showing that 1920s were not really an age of tolerance.
An example would be of a man well known and hated throughout the state of Colorado, Mr. James Holmes. Mr. Holmes shot up the Aurora mall Cinema on the night of July 20th 2012.While on trial, it was no surprise to me that he was facing death penalty charges. What did surprise me was the fact that he wanted to plead insanity. It is not fair for those who truly are mentally ill and have been diagnosed with it for years opposed to James Holmes where he never had records of having such type of illness. It is smart, but not fair.
Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, used Tom’s race and physical strength to imply that Tom was just another stereotypical black man who targeted a fair skinned female. Mr. Gilmer hinted that because Tom was strong and coloured, Tom would rape and beat a white woman. Not only was Tom discriminated against on the stand, but after Tom was sent to the slammer, Tom was killed and shot at multiple times after he was already dead. “ ‘Seventeen bullet holes in him. They [the police] didn’t have to shoot him that much.’ ” (235).