The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
He was first arrested at age 18 after he stole $3.50 in coins from a local post office. Three years later he was arrested for a payroll robbery on September 16, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri and was sentenced to five years in prison, of which he served three and a half. [2][3][4] When paroled, Floyd vowed that he would never see the inside of another prison. Entering into partnerships with more established criminals in the Kansas City underworld, he committed a series of bank robberies over the next several years; it was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Pretty Boy." According to one account, when the payroll master targeted in a robbery described the three perpetrators to the police, he
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.
Even his most sympathetic white characters found it completely natural to regard blacks differently, for the racist preconceptions were everywhere and they permeated and changed the thinking of everyone in their path. Twain best demonstrated this theme through the interactions of others with his main black character, Jim. Jim was a slave owned by the widow who cared for Huck during the first part of the book. The widow was apparently a kind mistress and promised Jim that she would never sell him to the slave traders in New Orleans. However Jim overheard her one night saying that she planned do to just that, which is what prompted him to run away early on (Twain at 43).
During the movie a lot of black peoples churches gets burned down, and several murders are committed, all signed by the KKKs burning cross. The moves ends with that the FBI finds out that the KKK has killed the three civil right workers and arrests them one by one by tricks. Review on Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a move directed by Alan Parker. The movie is based on a true story where three civil rights activists were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan's in 1964. Immediately FBI ´s agents Gene Hackman (a older man) and Willem Dafoe ( a younger msn)steps in based on their suspicion that the three civil rights activists were murdered.
Poyck and Valdez were eventually arrested the same day. “In 1972, William Van Poyck, at age 17, was sentenced to life in prison” (Killing People In the Name of Teaching That Killing is Wrong) for armed robbery with a deadly weapon. He was originally sent to Starke, which is known as the toughest prison in the state, but in 1977 Poyck was sent to a place called The Rock for bad behavior. He escaped from The Rock by making a key to open a security door and then cutting through fences. A month later, after his escape he was caught.
He says that when his brother was beaten to death, the law did not respectful take matters seriously. Tucker refers to the misunderstanding as “nigger law” because of it was the reverse, the black man would be executed. He explains his involvement of the shooting Beau’s people killed his brother. He waited all these years for his forgiveness of his
The subject was brought about by the case of Willie Francis, a 17-year-old convict in Louisiana who was sentenced to death in the electric chair after he was found guilty of murdering Andrew Thomas in 1944. Thomas was a druggist in St. Martinville, LA who had once been Francis’ employer. Francis was tried and convicted of first-degree murder, despite a confession that was illegally obtained, since Francis had not been informed of his right to counsel and didn’t have a parent or guardian present. On the day that Francis was supposed to be executed, the electric chair didn’t provide the needed volts to kill Francis, who instead moaned in agony as he was delivered a
(Ramsland, 2008). On February 29, 1993, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. After the raid, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. The Branch Davidians were then immediately charged with murder, thus beginning a 51-day siege. On April 19th, 1993, the siege ended in a fire which destroyed
In 1991, Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer Mark Allen Macphail in Savannah, Georgia. The case against Troy Davis primarily based on only witness testimony without any DNA evidence. Since his 1991 trial, seven of key nine witnesses even changed their testimonies; some claiming police forced them to. However, after years of appeal did not prove his innocent, Troy Davis was finally executed in September 2011 with he still claiming himself innocent. 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.