In the event of the shooting and death of the Louisiana State Trooper Steven Vincent, Kevin Daigle has attended his first court session and is awaiting his sentencing. This court session was held on August 24, 2015; where Daigle acknowledged, “that he would likely face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder” (Fox). Daigle was apprehended and arrested on August 23, 2015 after committing the murder. His first court session was held in a small room beside the main court room, where a number of other inmates awaited their hearings. It is said that, “Daigle is charged with first-degree murder of a police officer and aggravated battery, according to KPLC” (Fox). The author of the article discusses the case very logically and
Cynthia Adae was taken to Clinton Memorial Hospital on June 28, 2006. She was taken to the hospital with back and chest pain. A doctor concluded that she was at high risk for acute coronary syndrome. She was transferred to the Clinton Memorial hospital emergency room. She reported to have pain for two or three weeks and that the pain started in her back or her chest. The pain sometimes increased with heavy breathing and sometimes radiated down her left arm. Cynthia said she had a high fever of 103 to 104 degrees. When she was in the emergency room her temperature was 99.3, she had a heart rate of 140, but her blood
Summary of the Case On August 1987, Donald Butler opened a store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, called the “Avenue Boutique”. In this store, Butler sold and rented pornographic publications that were considered “hard core” and sexual paraphernalia. A couple weeks later, the City of Winnipeg Police searched and seized Butler’s sexually explicit materials lawfully. From this, Butler was charged with 173 counts under s. 163 of the Criminal Code. These charges included s. 163(1)(a) which criminalizes the distribution and the possession for distribution of obscene materials, as wells s. 163(2)(a) for selling and exposing obscene material to the public.
As if being the father of two children and a dedicated husband were not enough, Victor Terhune has to balance his family life with his job. Victor currently works as a Technical representative for the sales department at Weastec in Dublin, Ohio. Though work holds him back from doing some of the things that he would like to be doing, like spending more time with his wife and sons, this is a common theme for many workers today in a relationship with their desire to be with their families. Victor strives to get resolution to this by making time by driving home right after work and focusing on that quality time with his family.
Warden Nash over-saw the State executions of; Thomas Moore, Sammy Aire Tucker, Ronald Lee Wolfe and Charles H. Odom. I mention these executions because as a Correctional Officer, I have seen my share of death. It goes with the job. Its never easy watching a man die or finding him after hes killed himself.
In the case of 14 year old Timothy Kane a Florida teenager, reveals how youths can be hauled away for life, when the evidence shows he was just a tagging along with a group of friends
The crime he committed was terrible and obviously something that could only be done with someone who lacks any good intentions. His behavior during the his trial also showed the extent of his maliciousness. He half-heartedly attempted to defend himself by claiming the prosecutors were using false evidence and that, according the records of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, “Nobles concludes that he was denied the fundamentally fair and impartial trial guaranteed him by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment”. He put very little effort into defending himself during the trial and was quickly sentenced to death. In the early years of his time in prison he was far from the ideal prisoner. Earle presents how “He once broke away from guards while returning to his cell from the exercise yard and climbed the exposed pipes and bars in the cell block, kicking down television sets suspended outside on the bottom tier.” and on another occasion he cut himself just so he could hit an officer while they were attending to him before he passed out. This kind of behavior was completely eradicated long before he was executed, procuring him the respect of the prison
a. Victor Burnette lived in Richmond, Virginia in 1979. He cared for his blind and arthritic grandmother at night and was getting ready to get his career started. However this all change on the 5th of August that year, when a local woman identified him as the man who raped her. When DNA testing was done in 2009 it confirmed that he was not the attacker. It had taken 20 years for Burnette to clear his name. [Exoneration Case Detail. 2014]
Damien Echols is found guilty and sentenced to death for the crime of killing three eight-year old boys; for eighteen years he spends his life on Death Row before he is released. Before being placed on Death Row at Varner Super Max Security Unit in Grady, Arkansas and Tucker Max Security Unit, Echols also spent time in Crittenden County Jail on misdemeanor charges he received as minor. While on Death Row, Damien explains that it was the guards that he had to watch out for and not the other prisoners. The visits from spiritual advisors as well as the media caused Echols to receive hatred from the guards. They destroyed everything in his cell, planted a knife in his bunk, sent to solitary confinement for no reason, beat up by a team of five guards, and one day he was taken to the warden’s office where he was choked while the warden lectured him on how “sick” he was.
Ashley Smith was a young girl that was placed in a juvenile detention centre at age 15 for throwing apples at a mail man. Her short sentence quickly extended into a life sentence because of so many infractions within the prison system. Ashley suffered from extreme mental health issues and was place in a psychiatric prison facility, however this facility was shown in the documentary to be corrupt and their actions with Ashley were extremely illegal. Furthermore, Ashley wasn’t given the proper help and treatment that she needed, instead she was physically and verbally abused by guards in the prison, and she ultimately passed away in the prison. Her death is still being debated about whether
On October 20, 2014 a young male teen was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois. The shooting occurred in the middle of the road and the suspect that was fatally shot was named Laquan McDonald. McDonald was just 17 years old and was the suspect after initial reports placed him in the scene of a possible car jacking. It was reported that Laquan McDonald had a knife and was also seen slashing tires of a police cruiser. When police had finally had him surrounded in the middle of the road, one officer opened fire and released 16 shots into his body. Another deputy on hand said the use of force was not needed because Laquan was not in any way trying to attack the officers present. The officer who fired the 16 shots into Laquan is named Jason D. Van
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2. Police has charged a second man who is in connection with a double homicide in a parking lot just off of Glenwood Avenue last week. A man by the name of Daekwon Javon Ragland, who is 20 years old, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, as announced by Police on Thursday, March 17th. Ragland is currently accused of killing a man by the name of Pedro Joel Reyes Diaz, who is 25 years old and from Raleigh, as well as a man by the name of Allan Uriel Rodriguez, who is 25 years old also, and from Wendell. As stated by the police report, the two men were found shot to death in an SUV at about 12:30 a.m. last Thursday in the parking lot of a Panera Bread in the 6200 block of Glenwood Avenue, across from Pleasant Valley Promenade. Additionally, on Tuesday, March 15th, police announced that they had charged Denzel Rashad Dancy with the murders. Dancy, who is 18 years old, remains at large, according to the article. Also, police have not disclosed a possible motive for the killings.
A Chicago police officer has been accused of the sexual assault of a minor and he has been charged with felony criminal sexual assault. An article posted by the Chicago Tribune stated that the officer, Eugene Ciardullo, aged 51 was arrested in his home by officers from the Chicago police department. It later emerged that he was also employed as a security guard at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Studies where he befriended the girl. They exchanged contact information and communicated through the summer of her sophomore year (Briscoe, 2017). Their relationship went on to become physical from February until December 2016. They had various encounters with some being in empty parking lots and motel rooms throughout the duration of their relationship. It also emerged that the accused officer told the victim that he would lose his job, as well as, face jail time if they were caught. Additionally, the victim was instructed by the officer to say that they were just good friends to anyone who inquired about the nature of their relationship (Briscoe, 2017).
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
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