Book Review: The Story Of Debra Sue Carter

Although he was found not guilty, McNaughtan spent twenty years in a mental asylum until his death. Although helpful to truly insane criminals, the insanity plea has many flaws when it comes to the victims. Pleading insanity should be outlawed because it is unfair to the victims’ families, dangerous to society, and ambiguous in its interpretation. One flaw of the insanity plea is how the victims and their families are affected. For example on March 21, 2010, Kathy Powell, the mother of 21 year old Taylor Powell, who was brutally murdered by Jarrod Wyatt outside Klamath, Oregon, said the suspect's recent insanity plea was a complete lie.

In 1969, the County Sheriff had taken them into custody, not realizing that they were involved in the brutal murders. But the confession of one member involved with the Tate and LaBianca murders, while in detention on suspicion of murdering Gary Hinman, an unrelated incident, had shown detectives that Manson and his followers were involved in the killings. The trial began in June, 1970. Charles Manson protested to the media and court proceedings by turning up with an X carved into his forehead. Some of the female family members copied the act and shaved their heads while outside the courthouse during trial.

Stevenson took McMillian’s case after reading his case file and found his case was full of vary questionable facts, circumstances and evidence against his client. The cases involved the murder of a local girl in Monroe County where McMillian resided. Stevenson (2014) “In the late morning of November, 1, 1986, Ronda Morrison… was found dead on the floor of Monroe Cleaners…” (p, 30). Due to testimony by people who never knew or met McMillian, McMillian was charged and sentenced to the death penalty for Morrison’s

It is ludicrous that many of the same people who convicted two innocent men of crimes and nearly got one killed are still working in the same offices even after they were proven unethical, and disrespectful to their duty. This book was not written help Ron Williamson or Dennis Fritz, they have already been exonerated and have received compensation. It was probably not written for money, John Grisham stated in a speech that he feared a lawsuit. (law.virginia.edu) This book was written to make a political point. Even though this book is somewhat biased against the death penalty it still should enrage an American citizen who believes that a person is ?innocent until proven guilty,?

The story starts with Sickles’ wife apparently having a public, ongoing affair with Key. Daniel Sickles was aware of the affair, but on that fateful day, he caught Philip Barton Key calling up to the window of the room where his wife slept. Consequently, Sickles flew into a rage which resulted in his merciless shooting of Key. Afterwards, he was charged with first-degree murder, which at the time, in some states, was punishable by capital punishment, which was execution. However, this was not the case for Daniel Sickles, whose trial concluded with the verdict from the all-male jury being “not guilty”.

Susan Glaspell’s most memorable one-act play, Trifles (1916) was based on murder trial case that happened in the 1900’s. Glaspell worked as a reporter, where she appointed a report of a murder case. It was about a farmer, John Hossack who was killed while he was asleep in bed one night. His wife claimed that she was asleep next to him when the attack occurred. No one believed in her statement, she was arrested and was charged on first degree murder.

He has little experience in dealing on a personal basis with the question of sanity of patients, but is intrigued by this fabulously sensationalized murderess. A group that has continuously tried for the pardon of Grace Marks has recruited the doctor with hopes that he will find Grace sane and innocent on all counts of murder. Dr. Jordan's main purpose is to help recover the lost memory of the time during the murders. This memory which some to believe was conveniently forgotten helped convict her during the trial; almost as if she had admitted to the killings. During the course of his visits with Grace, Dr. Jordan encourages her to tell of her life before the murders.

It was not normal for a dark skinned man to play a major league sport. When he started he had to put of with racism and discrimination. But the comments didn’t stop him from becoming the amazing ball player he had become. Jack beat many records and he had an amazing batting average, .349 and a .985 fielding percentage. That amazing first year of playing baseball he had the opportunity to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

To recap, Bryce Brentz is a very strong guy who has the potential to hit some serious homeruns and get some assists in the outfield. Although his plate discipline could use some work, he is proving that he is almost ready for the big leagues and should be there at some point this year. The Boston Red Sox do have a lot of outfield depth in the Majors, but some of those players will be gone after this season. With this being said, a spot could potentially open up and if Bryce Brentz does as well as he should, there is no doubt that he will be a Major League player for the Boston Red Sox. Follow me Twitter @CLNS_Tom and thanks for reading.

Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18th 1934. From his early childhood Roberto showed signs of great athletic ability. At school, he won regional competitions, once tossing the javelin 190 feet—the world record in 1953 was just over 263 feet. He was also very fast on the track competing in both sprinting and hurdling events. But baseball was his passion.