The Missouri State Supreme Court revised their decision in 1852. In the local court Dred Scott sued John Sanford which was the brother of Mrs. Emmerson and in charge of handling her affairs. At this time the courts ruled in favor of Sanford. Dred Scott appealed and took his case to The United States Supreme Court. On March 6, 1857 in a decision of 7-2 the courts decided in favor of the slave owner.
Celia, A Slave, a true story written by Melton A. McLaurin exemplifies the sexual exploitation of Celia and the social positions of white and black women during the Antebellum South. Celia was an innocent, young slave who was sexually assaulted and held captive by an abusive master named Robert Newsom. Eventually, Celia kills Robert Newsom, burns the body and is tried for murder. Yet, despite the great efforts of Celia’s lawyers, Celia was found guilty and executed. Celia was bought at the age of 14 and was first raped on the way back to Robert Newsom’s home.
In this small town, Tom Robinson, a black man, husband, and father of two is on trial for a crime of rape. The accuser is Mayella Ewell, the 19-year-old daughter of Bob Ewell. The crime of rape is a serious and if Tom is found guilty, he will be executed. The crime in question took place in the evening of November 21, 1935, close to the county dump, in the Ewell’s house. Mr. Robinson’s lawyer is Atticus Finch, who resides in Maycomb.
She married minister, Joseph Rowlandson in 1656, and together they had a total of four children; their daughter Mary dying as toddler (Rassmussen). Rowlandson and her three surviving children were captured in their garrison home in Lancaster, Massachusetts by the Algonquian Indians on February 10, 1676, while her husband was away in Boston. She was held in captivity for 82 days, during which time she traveled over 150 miles, meeting King Philip before being ransomed (Sweeney). Following her release, Rowlandson was reunited with her husband and settled for a time in Boston. In 1677, she and her family moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut and the next year Rowlandson was widowed.
Felisha Khooblall Criminology – Reaction Paper “Tracy Thurman Case” The Tracy Thurman Case was in the 1980s. Between November of 1982 and June 1983, Tracy Thurman was stalked and attacked by her estranged husband Charles Thurman. She was brutally attacked by Charles, stabbing her multiple times, kicking her and stomping on her skull. Due to the amount of damage done to her, she was turned into a quadriplegic. During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her.
Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather. She never knew any normal familial relations and became pregnant as a result of rape when she was just 14—she claimed that her brother was the father of her child. Exposed to sexual activities at a very tender age she began providing sexual favors in exchange for food, drugs, and cigarettes when she was nine years old. Thrown out of her grandparents’ home as a teenager she began eking out a life as a prostitute. She later started robbing and killing men sequentially earning the notoriety of being the first female American serial killer.
Shekinah Holemon 11-12-13 CRJ:124 Section 550 Professor Bell Furman v. Georgia In the Furman v. Georgia, the victim William Micke woke up in the middle of the night to find William Henry Furman committing robbery in his house. While escaping Furman killed the victim with one pistol shot fired through the closed kitchen door from the outside. At the trial, Furman was convicted of murder as a result of the incident and sentenced to death. Although Furman did not intend to kill the resident, the fact that he killed the resident during the committing a felony, in which made him eligible for the death penalty. Furman's lawyers appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court after the highest courts in Georgia upheld the conviction.
Stanford v Kentucky was a United States Supreme court case that dealt with the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least sixteen years old at the time the crime was committed. Stanford was 17 years old at the time he committed murder in Kentucky. On January 17, 1981, Stanford and an accomplice repeatedly raped and sodomized twenty year old Barpel Poore during and after their robbery at the gas station Poore worked at. Hearings were held to decide on whether Stanford’s case should be held in Juvenile court or adult. The juvenile court did make the decision to transfer his case, therefore; Stanford would be trialed as an adult under a state statute permitting such action as to offenders who are either charged with a class A felony, capital crime or anyone over the age of sixteen and charged with a felony.
Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows. On February 8, 1850, Katherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Thomas O’Flaherty and Eliza Faris. She was their second born child and later in life became known as the famous author, Kate Chopin. Growing up in the South with and Irish father and a Creole mother, she was bilingual with English and French. (Ewell) Kate experienced much loss at a young age, three of her family members died by the time she was thirteen.
Honor killing is a culture specific act that is defined by exicuting an individual based on the belief that they have brough shame upon their family. An example of acts that are deemed to bring shame are being a victim of rape, dressing in a way that is seen as inapropriate, or refusing to enter an arranged marrige. For example in this story according to (CNN) Gulnaz, a 19 year old girl in afghanistan got raped by her cousins husband. Gulnaz tried to keep it from her family for as long as she could until she became pregnant. After her family found out, she was sent to jail.