Lizzie Borden: The Innocence Of Lizzie Borden's Murder

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Lizzie Borden took an Axe and gave her stepmother forty whacks, when she had seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The problem is that Lizzie Borden was accused of murder of her dad and stepmother on August 4th, 1892. Lizzie Borden was not the murderer the day her parents were killed. Lizzie is not the murder because Lizzie deeply cared for her father, at Lizzie's trial she showed a grieving side of her that wasn't described in other sources at their time and because she was framed to be believed to commit murder on her parents. After the murderers Lizzie was treated very differently by MANY people even though she was innocent. One reason that proves Lizzie's innocence is that Lizzie deeply cared for her father. The article says, ¨Lizzie Borden cared for her father very deeply¨, Martins said. ¨There was a tremendous outpouring of grief in the letters, and …show more content…

Although Lizzie attempted to purchase a poison, Prussic acid she was not going to use this one her parents, it was for a sealskin cape. Another example of how Lizzie got blamed for these murderers is because of Bridget Sullivan. In article #3 in paragraph 7 it says,”When Bridget Sullivan came back inside after having finished washing out inside windows,around 10:30 A.M., she reported hearing a muffled laugh coming from upstairs.” This can emphasize that people could have lied by saying they weren't there at the time of these murderers but nobody really knows the truth about this case and many people probably blamed Lizzie even though she clearly did not commit this murder. Another way people suspect Lizzie is because she burned a dress that clearly had paint on it and not the blood of her parents. This supports the claim because Lizzie was suspected for many things but she did not kill her parents. One last reason Lizzie why Lizzie is not the murder is because everybody blamed her for these

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