The police coerced Timothy Evans into a false confession by threatening him. After Evan’s execution the police found out that Evans was telling the truth and in fact John Christie was a serial killer who killed many women in his home. Evans received a posthumous pardon 16 years after his
Kimberly Prine 4/21/15 CJ 112 Assignment #4 Psychological Theories Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men, widely believed to be the United States’ first female serial killer. She was convicted for six of the murders and sentenced to death, ultimately meeting her end through execution by lethal injection. The product of a highly dysfunctional marriage, Aileen had been subjected to horrific tortures as a young girl. Her father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her birth while her mother was an immature teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother. Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather.
The situation in the book happens to not be under the umbrella of a usual justified murder but any human with a heart would feel differently. “Following the shock of the discovery, she gave birth to a dead child born prematurely, and herself died. Her broken-hearted husband shot himself” (Christie 70). Daisy was just an innocent three year old who was kidnapped and killed for money alone. Her death caused much commotion to all the people who new her; the closer they were to her, the more they suffered.
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 the past twelve years, reasons as to why women are being abducted, tortured, and murdered have ranged from forced prostitution to organ trafficking. These atrocities are viewed as an act of sexual feminicide. Since early 2002, two hundred and sixty nine women have been killed and four hundred and fifty women are missing (Fregroso 2). The phenomenon of these murdered women start from the conditions of the maquiladoras, where these women are coming from, how they are being killed, and what is being done to stop these killings. According to Astrid Gonzalez “Juarez is an ideal place to kill women, because you’re certain you will get away with it” (Dillon 1).
The ‘but for’ test can be seen in operation in the case of Pagett (1983) where a defendant who used his pregnant girlfriend as a ‘human shield’ whilst firing at the police was found guilty of murder when the police returned fire killing the woman. ‘But for’ the defendant’s actions she would not have died. The opposite situation was seen in White (1910) where a defendant put cyanide in his mother’s drink but she dies of a heart attack before she had a chance to drink it. The defendant here was not the factual cause of her death though he was guilty of attempted murder. This can be applied to Dipak’s situation and it is likely that because Sarev is critically injured in any case in the crash, Dipak would be the factual cause of Sarev’s death.
He did not only kill his father’s pregnant fiancé, he also murdered their unborn child. Why would they give Jordan special treatment because he was 11 years old? Yes, he is young, but he was at an age to clearly set apart right from wrong and what he did was definitely wrong. The way I like to look at it is that murder is murder no matter the name or the age of the person. Jordan committed a serious crime and he should have to pay for his actions.
Alias Grace Based on a notorious double murder in Canada in the1840's, the novel Alias Grace tells the story of a pretty 16 year-old servant girl who conspired with a ranch hand to kill their employer and his mistress and escape with their belongings. They were captured in several days, and later, in a much-publicized trial, found guilty of premeditated murder. The young man, James McDermott, was sentenced to death, and the girl, Grace Marks, narrowly escaped it. Alias Grace begins after the murderess has served 8 years in prison. The death of Nancy Montgomery, Kinnear's housekeeper and mistress, has been disregarded as both villains had already been sentenced to death.
The card identified a woman who killed her two sons and then cut her own throat in efforts to put the blame on another individual. Her bloody fingerprints were found on a door post, which identified her as the murderer. Since then the use of the fingerprints has come a long way. The fingerprint is now used to help solve crimes and help identify individuals. Fingerprints evidence has helped free innocent people from being falsely accused of a crime.
On the same day, Iran publicly hanged a 17-year old boy, name Alireza Molla-Soltani had convicted of killing a popular athlete despite international prohibitions against executing juveniles. He claimed his killing as part of a self-defense. Death penalty is always a controversial topic for over the decades. First and foremost, according to dictionary, death penalty is one of the capital punishment of death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, rape and murder where in the criminal provisions consider such persons as a gross danger to the existence of the society and provide death punishment. In my opinion, death penalty should not be legalize as a form of punishment in law.