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In the article titled ”Man Denied Parole in a Flagstaff Hotel” the article follows the case of then teenager Jacob Wideman murdering his bunkmate Eric Kane while he slept in his bed at a summer camp hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1986. Jacob was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, the article was written in 2011the year of his first parole hearing. The issue for the readers to decipher in the article is if they believe Jacob who has served the past 25 years in prison should be granted parole and be released from prison. The article gives up to date insight from the parents of both of boys, Jacob who committed the murder, and Eric the victim all leading up to Jacob’s parole hearing. In this paper I will highlight key points from the article while answering key questions to give a better understanding of the trial for myself and for the readers.
The non-fiction text I decided to read that led me to my topic of Capital Punishment is titled, Just Mercy by attorney-at-law Bryan Stevenson, and it provides stories of a lawyer who wanted to bring justice to the court system by helping men, women and children, sentenced to death row by helping them obtain their freedom. The book first begins with a back story of the Mr. Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson is a graduate from the law soon of Harvard. His interest in Death Row cases grew when the law office he was interning for sent him to talk to a man, Walter McMillian, who was sentenced to death row after wrongfully being accused of a murder he did not commit and was framed for. Mr. Bryan helped him, and Walter was eventually released about six years in death row. In the book, Mr. Stevenson goes through many cases that he has taken upon, some failures and some great success. The people Bryan helped were mostly minorities who faced racial bias at the time of their trial. He represented not only men, but also children. There’s stories about how a woman whose baby was born dead was sentenced to prison
ISIS has shown that they are one of the biggest terror threats in the world (CNN). People even are starting comparing ISIS to the Nazis from World War II(Luckert). Nazis and ISIS are very similar, but they are also very different. The similarities are shocking to see that history could possibly repeat itself and people still haven’t learned from the Nazis’ time. The Nazis exterminated more than six million innocent civilians. If no one stops ISIS, who knows what they will be able to accomplish.
The biggest difference here is that author Wes made it out. Incarcerated Wes moved out of that neighborhood as well, but was still in urban Maryland. He lived in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, with all sorts of various social pressures. Wes was raised almost by his neighborhood, in a world where violence is normalized and there was no room for conflict resolution or proper coping mechanisms. An example of this is an incident when Wes was a teenager playing football with his friends and some neighborhood kids. Wes got a little too aggressive and one of the other boys didn’t like it. He demanded that Wes stop pushing him. When Wes didn’t, he punched him in the face. As revenge, Wes went to his house, picked up a knife and went after the boy. He was arrested before reaching the boy. Had he learned how to properly deescalate a situation and handle his aggression, his immediate reaction would not have been to resort to violence. Wes Moore, the author, moved to the Bronx, during the rise of drug addiction and gang violence. He has even described it as a “once-proud neighborhood [that has] become synonymous with the collapse of the American inner city.” (Moore, 43). Wes almost immediately made friends in this new neighborhood, over a love of basketball. Wes has been able to use basketball as his outlet, and, besides some bouts with vandalism and his suspension, it has kept him out of trouble. His neighborhood and environment could’ve very well brought him down, but his family and his education is what kept him
Curtis McGhee is 17-year-old Black male who lived in Iowa. In 1977, he was charged for the murder of John Schweer who worked as a security guard at a car dealership. Later on in 1978, he was sentenced to life in prison for a murder that he never committed. Later on in 2011, McGhee was exonerated based on the police file and court’s transcript that was found, and which indicated that McGhee was a innocent man behind bars, and he was serving time for a crime that he never took in part of committing. This case of Curtis McGhee raises a question on our criminal justice system and it leads us to confirm that miscarriages of justice do occur, and there should be various reforms that should be made so these miscarriages can be prevented from occurring in the future.
Whenever an author is creating an argument, they must appeal to whatever grabs his or her selected audience’s attention.When given the topic of Michael Fay, an 18 year old American citizen who was punished in Singapore for vandalism by being caned, two sources appealed to their audience in two contrasting ways. In “Time to Assert American Values,” published by The New York Times, the author tries to capture his or her audience by stirring up emotion. In “Rough Justice: A Caning in Singapore Stirs up a Fierce Debate about Crime and Punishment,” Alejandro Reyes presents factual evidence throughout the entire article to support his claims. After carefully analyzing both texts, it is apparent that Alejandro Reyes gives a more convincing and sufficient
Jacoby can be easily perceived as an upset and alarmed individual who blames the rise of criminal activity in the United States on the failure of the criminal justice system. He cares about people and believes that the safety of individuals is decreasing because criminals are not punished effectively by imprisonment and that some even receive a “sign of manhood” from going to prison (197). Additionally, he is upset that the ineffective system is so expensive. His concern for his audience’s safety and his carefully argued grounds, which he uses to support his claim, create a persona of an intelligent person of
These two men, both coming from different backgrounds, joined together and carried out a terrible choice that rendered consequences far worse than they imagined. Living under abuse, Perry Smith never obtained the necessary integrity to be able to pause and consider how his actions might affect other people. He matured into a man who acts before he thinks, all due to the suffering he endured as a child. Exposed to a violent father who did not instill basic teachings of life, Smith knew nothing but anger and misconduct as a means of responding to the world. He knew no other life. Without exposure to proper behavior or responsible conduct, he turned into a monster capable of killing an entire family without a blink of remorse. In the heat of the moment, Perry Smith slaughtered the Clutter family and barely stopped to take a breath. What could drive a man to do this in such cold blood? The answer lies within his upbringing, and how his childhood experiences shaped him to become the murderer of a small family in Holcomb, Kansas. ¨The hypothesis of unconscious motivation explains why the murderers perceived innocuous and relatively unknown victims as provocative and thereby suitable targets for aggression.¨ (Capote 191). ¨But it is Dr. Statten´s contention that only the first murder matters psychologically, and that when
...tation parking lot. In the parking lot both cars pull up, Dunn before the SUV, and the guys in the SUV had their music on full blast. Dunn asked them to turn it down and got in an argument with the boys. Dunn reaches for his gun and fires ten times at the SUV. Only one person, Jordan Davis (17) was shot and he was shot twice. Dunn drove away and hours afterwards found out that Davis was dead. Dunn was convicted of 4 out of 5 attempted murder charges and a mistrial declared on the first degree murder charge. Now both cases are very similar the main difference is the verdict. The defendants in both trials could have avoided the confrontation but chose not to. In both cases an underage African American was shot and killed. In both cases the defendants lives were not in danger and the victims were unarmed. So why would they let one be found guilty and the other go free?
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Critics of capital punishment hold that because most homicides are situational and are not planned, offenders do not consider the consequences of their actions before they commit the offense” (Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, 2015, p.133). Most people on death row committed their crimes in the heat of the moment, usually while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or, in some cases, due to suffering from mental illness. These individuals are highly unlikely to make rational decisions based on a fear of future consequences for their actions. Criminals are mainly concerned with whether or not they’ll be caught, not what might happen to them afterwards.
Offenders given mandatory life in prison on charges of murder, on average only serve 16 years before being released back into society. One in three of these killers carries out a second murder even under the supervision of the probation officer.1 If we allow murderers to spend life in prison we run the chance of them getting out and killing again. Capital punishment can also deter future perpetrators from committing such a heinous crime, and it will end the prisoner’s suffering by giving them a humane death and give closure to the victim’s family. Without a concrete meaning of “life in prison” we need the death penalty to put an end to the most evil of people.
The Boston Marathon bombers consisted of an older brother and younger brother with the younger being 20 at the time of the attack. The Beltway Sniper pair also had an older (father figure) and younger perpetrator with the younger being 17 years old at the time of the attack. Both of the younger perpetrators in both groups attempted to use a similar defense in court after their arrest for their terrorist acts. Malvo, the younger Beltway Sniper, attempted to say that he was largely influenced by Muhammad, who was the older perpetrator and was similar to a father figure. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the Boston Marathon Bombers also attempted to say that he was largely influenced by his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The defenses did not worked for the perpetrators as Malvo was sentenced to life without the chance of parole and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to
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Although the cases were similar, they were also diverse two of the criminals were black, and the murders varied over seven states all defendants killed their victims in different ways, and some of the defendants moved the bodies while others let them remain in the spot of the killings.