Ronda Morrison’s murder takes place in Monrcoeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee grew up and wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. People there are crazy about that story. But when Bryan Stevenson tries to get the community to help Walter McMillian, an innocent African-American man, there is only indifference and hostility (Stevenson). Li 2 Li 2 As defendants, Tom Robinson and Walter McMillian are both black and innocent. Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell who in fact
Mayella Ewell, a white girl, often asked him to help her with her chores and he of course did. One time when he was helping her she kissed him but when her father saw she was embarressed and said he raped her and beat her up. The thing was she had bruises on the left side of her face but Tom was paralyzed in the left arm after he got stuck in a cotton making machine, so he could not have done it. Still the jury convicted him guilty of all charges. Its very likely that he was only found guilty because he was black.
Those 7 received only minor convictions. There were many more involved in the lynching including the Neshoba County Sherriff. In 1989, Jerry Mitchell saw the film Mississippi Burning, which peaked his curiosity with old civil rights cases that had turned cold. Mitchell began working with a high school teacher, Barry Bradford, to help develop the case a bit more in order to convince officials to reopen the case. Bradford was able to obtain an interview that he taped with Edgar Ray Killen and helped Mitchell identify Mr. X. Mr. X was the mystery informant that helped the FBI discover the bodies in 1964.
Have you ever read the book Mississippi Trial 1955? If you haven’t you should. In the book Mississippi Trial 1955 the author Chris Crow portrays the horrible hate crimes against African American’s. In this book the author talks about a young African American boy named Emmett Till from Chicago that went down to Greenwood, Mississippi to visit his uncle Mose Wright. Everything was fine for Emmett until he met RC Rydell which shoved fish guts up Emmett’s nose and mouth.
Moral Issues in Film: A Time to Kill Joseph Fusaro Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Moral Issues in Film: A Time to Kill The film A Time to Kill takes us on an arduous journey of moral and ethical proportions. The movie, based on the book of the same title by author John Grisham, tells the captivating story about race, equality, vengeance and justice. The story begins with a young Southern attorney that acts as defense lawyer for a black father who kills two white men for raping and nearly killing his 10 year old daughter. Carl Lee Hailey is a Mississippi mill worker whose life gets flipped upside down when two racist hillbillies abduct and brutally rape his 10 year old Tonya. Shortly after grieving for the loss of his daughter’s innocence, Carl Lee seeks counsel with the lawyer Jake Brigance.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE – THE HAMMER MURDERER NAME: John Doe (Alias: The Hammer Murderer) DATE OF BIRTH: Unknown (1925-1935) DATE OF REPORT: September 14, 2014 REASON OF PROFILE: Police request INSTANT OFFENSE: Mr Doe has killed several of his victims by blunt force trauma to the head by hammer, thus the reason of his alias. His victims were all caucasian females approximately the same age as Mr Doe. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Main witness: A witness of Mr Doe’s latest kill on 58th street. Additional witnesses: Two bystanders and the florist on 3rd Ave. witnessed Mr Doe the day of the murder. It is important to notice that none of the information stated in this report has been obtained through psychological testing or clinical interview of Mr Doe in order to verify its correctness.
MUTI KILLINGS AND RITUAL MURDERS On September 21st 2001 the mutilated body of which was believed to be that of a South African juvenile, was found floating in the River Thames in London. Despite extensive DNA tests, searches though missing children databases, the police had no idea who the boy was, so named him ‘Adam’. Detectives at Scotland Yard believed the remains to be a result of a ritual murder, however in order to obtain a confirmed cause of death, detectives went to South Africa in order to consult an and hire Credo Mutwa who is a well known powerful Sangoma (traditional healer). After reading the case files, Mutwa was able to confirm that ‘Adam’ was a victim of human sacrifice which would have been carried out by a tribe known as Yoruba who are well known for practicing very black magic in Nigeria. Detectives also consulted with Richard Hoskins (2012) an expert on African religion and Voodoo who also revealed that the young victim actually killed in a Muti style killing or medicine murder as it is more commonly known in South Africa.
He was found guilty of the murder and was convicted of killing Peggy. However on January 22, 2008 Timothy Masters was exonerated of the charges which were filed against him. The dismissal of the charges against him was after he had served several years behind bars. In this case, it is clear that these law professionals relied on inconclusive information. Timothy Masters’ arrest was only because he had failed to report that he had found a dead body while he was heading to school.
My brother was only two years older than me, he being born in 1964 and me in 1966. In that time, I was only 15 years old, but I witness how Police Coastguards killed my elder brother: the bullet of gun fired the temporal bone of head; my father took him in his arm, the blood coming out a lot. My father shirt imbrued with blood from my brother. Police Coastguards dug a grave in sand and intend buried my brother without the coffin. My mother cried and begged the Police Coastguards to let her use her overcoat to wrap dead-body of my brother.
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.