J. Chapter 10 Required 1. Select the cash flow from operating activities for the five most recent years. 2. Comment on the trend in cash flow from operating activities.
The first known execution in the territory now known as the United States of America was of Captain George Kendall, who was shot by a firing squad in Jamestown in December 1607 accused of sowing discord and mutiny some say he also spied on the British for Spain. Well for one the firing squad was not the only way of execution threw out our nation’s history. Hanging, hanging was first passed as a legal substitute in 1735 to 1924, and
What were the short term effects of trial and execution of Derek Bentley The trial and execution of Derek Bentley was a major controversy in British criminal history. Derek Bentley was a 19 year old British teenager who was hanged for the murder of police officer, Sidney Miles under the common criminal purpose “joint enterprise”. The reason the execution was so controversial was partly because Bentley had a mental age of 11 due to an accident that happened to him during the Second World War as a child. It was also partly the fact that the murder was done by Bentley’s accomplice Christopher Craig, 16 but due to the law was not liable to be hanged as under 18’s could not face capital punishment and Bentley was sentenced to death partly based on an interpretation of the phrase “Let him have it” which Bentley allegedly said to Craig and therefore “mentally aiding the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles”. In this essay, I will examine the short term effects that the execution of Derek Bentley created and come to an overall conclusion of how significant the trail and execution of Derek Bentley was.
Article #1 Source: Website (www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-executions.htm) Title of Article: Elizabethan Executions Author: Linda Alchin Publication Date: May 16, 2012 Quote: “The greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as offend against the state is drowning from the prison to the place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they behalf dead, and then taken down, quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and with in their own sight.” Meaning: If you commit a crime against the laws in England they will put you in a prison until they punish you by an execution. Why? To show the real aspects of executions when committing a crime. Article #2 Source: Website (www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springflied/eliz/torturepun.html) Title of Article: Torture and Punishment in Elizabethan Times Authors: Erin Lestikaw, Katie O’Fallan, Lori Patterson Quote: “Torture is the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which the tortured person belongs.” Meaning: By torturing people physically, the tortures can control one person or a group of people both physical and mental because the body and mind are connected. Why?
He then takes a picture of Caroline Frankenstein that the boy has been holding and places it in the folds of the dress of a girl sleeping in a barn—Justine Moritz, who is later executed for William’s murder. Even though William was a little child, the monster still did not hesitate to murder him, and once again he destroyed the lives of two innocent people. This shows that when you are angry you act upon impulses and no good will ever come of
Abigail’s greed was the most destructive to the outcome of this story. She destroyed most people’s reputation in the town. Many innocent people are hanged for crimes they did not commit including John Proctor. Abigail wanted to get rid of John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was charged with consorting with the devil. Abigail new the punishment for the crime of witchcraft was hanging and carried out her accusation so that she and Jon could “dance upon her grave together.”(Act 3) John Proctor is also charged with witch craft; he had a choice of lying about consorting with the devil or keeping his integrity.
Children should not be allowed to read about how somebody killed themselves by shooting themselves in the head. “It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off the grass, and the holocaust was complete.”(162) In conclusion, The Great Gatsby should be banned for many reasons such as: drug use, offensive language, abuse, and murder. This novel may be a classic but it has many inappropriate parts throughout it. Work Cited Page Clatty, Brittany. "Should the Great Gatsby Be Banned?"
Charlie Manson made people believe murdering was right. Manson led what became to be known as “the Family” whom he manipulated into brutality killing others on his behalf. To the world Manson had become an icon of evil. Many times after a murder, Charles Manson and “the family” would write blood on the walls and killed his victims in a brutal way. In a trial Susan Atkins (a member of “the family”) responded to the judge by saying, "Better lock your doors and watch your own kids"(4).
Having the occupation as a “poor beggar” was considered illegal and the punishment would to be beaten. The beatings were extremely bloody and merciless, those who were tediously being caught could be sent to prison for life or even hung by the neck. Punishment for lower classmen during the Elizabethan period included the following: hanging, burning, whipping, brandings, pressing, the wheel, boiling in oil water or lead, starvation in public places, and cutting off body parts. Being burnt at the stake was an appalling death, some executioners showed mercy to their victims by placing gun powder at the base of the stake which helped to more swiftly and less malevolent death. Other deaths were suffocation through respiration of the smoke creating less oxygen witch you can not
In English practice habeas corpus was only authorized by the House of Commons and the right to suspend given to the Executive chief and it is by his digression to see if all conditions for habeas corpus should be suspended. Habeas corpus was an English common law which was first used by King Edward I in 1305 to force the sheriffs to bring prisoners to court to testify. In America the constitution left it to the federal government but that would all change in 1863 with The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Then in 1871 the Civil Rights Act gave the president the ability to suspend habeas corpus when an extreme detrimental plots against the federal government, which cannot be verified. In 2001 The Presidential Military order gave the president the right to detain non-citizens whoever were suspected to be terrorist combatants or supporters or