Along with the dead bodies of the couple, a 9mm handgun was also found at the scene. The following morning, Andrew Kyle Hulsey, 23, was charged with capital murder in connection with his adoptive parents’ death. He has been detained at the Morgan County jail. The motive for the killing has yet to be determined.
Borden and Simpson are guilty of first degree murder due to the evidence found against them,the relationship between the defendants and their victims,and their strange behaviors after the murders. First of all,the evidence that was found points all fingers to the defendants. In Borden’s case,she was caught buying rat poison to “kill rats” in her home. A few days after she bought the poison, everyone in her home fell sick from what it looked like
Mary has cause so much destruction and could never be forgiven for all the innocent people she has
His supposed co-conspirators were put in jail, including Mary Surratt. Mary was arrested on April 17. Therefore if they had already punished Mary by putting her in jail, they didn’t need to put her to death.
After we were lead to think Mary shook the whole thing off “Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head” and then says “so I’ve killed him”. Furthermore, after Mary’s blow up, she begins to think about the consequences after her actions. We think that Mary wouldn’t kill her husband even though she got bad news, but she had so much stress which caused her to oddly use the leg of lamb as a weapon, even when she admitted she might as well used a steel
She admits that she had previously lied in court, but she is with God now and is willing to admit the truth. Moreover Mary trying to come to the court and trying to save many lives and or also trying to ruin a few was a very strong move on her part because she genuinely wanted god and wanted this town to be a christians town. overcoming the situation i believe the court and the people of this town couldve saved much more time and lives because many and i mean many people were coming to the court and were speaking the truth and only the
He only wished to save the lives of his friends and show us the extremity taken to unrealistic events. Instead, for his courage he is said to be overthrowing the court. Mary Warren’s word, the word of a young girl who sided herself with satan is taken higher than that of a grown man’s? The court has no clear evidence that anyone here has sided with the devil! Yet, with all the evidence pointing towards these girls being liars, we take advantage of the situation.
Bigger must face his death for the terrible crime he commits and the novel’s resolution provides little consolation. But there is a notable change that occurs; Bigger becomes aware, after his crime and through communication with Max over the course of the trial, that his internalized notions of the bleakness and powerlessness of black culture have been implanted in his psyche by a dominant white culture, one that does not recognize the humanity of the city’s black population. Thankful to Max at his behavior, Bigger says to him. “You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man….”
Though it is Bigger’s act in murdering Mary Dalton, it was the white community who is primarily responsible for Mary Dalton’s death. White people segregate people, like Bigger, and make them feel inferior. Because of this, Bigger holds anger and hatred towards the white community for limiting what he can do and for causing him to fear them and what they can do to him. Max points out that Mr. Dalton only rented houses to black people in the Black Belt essentially keeping Bigger and Mary strangers to each other (393). Since Mary is an unknown ‘species’ to Bigger, he does not know what to expect from her or how she will behave allowing him to build fear within himself due to the uncertainties of her behavior.
Since the audience previously saw Mary as innocent and harmless, the audience is even more surprised by this sudden murder. By now her entire character has changed. She is cold, calculated.
Bigger lives his whole life day to day because he realizes his dreams can never be accomplished and he has little to work towards. This is even more true after his murder of Mary, his life is even more short and at risk. Bigger realizes that he will soon get caught and he is spending the money recklessly in order to have some enjoyment and freedom from custom before he is caught or forced into constant
The fact that Mary never knew what was going on she couldn 't tell anybody. If Mary never knew what was going on then why did she get in trouble for it? Booth never came to her and told her what 's going on. She didn 't know that she was helping him do something that was wrong. Marry could be held responsible for one thing though.
Bigger as probably million others African Americans was not used to the “friendly” approach of white people, it was attributed to the fact that blacks in America were under severe oppression for hundreds of years. That was the only reality they knew. Therefore, the behavior of Mary and Jan was fatally misunderstood by Bigger. Because of the pressure they put on him and the fact that they seemed to ignore his emotions, only made Bigger confirm his beliefs that he was invisible to the white
Bigger is driven by fear, his fears drives him to commit crimes and act rash around white people. Bigger was a black man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, he was constantly in fear over the lack of control he had in his own life. Black society as a whole was treated poorly in the 1930s wether it was by ordinary white people or white people in a position of power such police and political figures. Bigger is afraid of the feeling of not having control over his life, and the fear of white societies power. Bigger feels the presence and pressure of white society every where he goes, hey control his education, where he lives, and where he can work.
Bigger knew that no white person would believe he was not striving to rape Mary. As Bigger tells Max, "They believe that. ... when folks say things like that about you, you whipped before you born." (Bloom, 2009, pg.41) Bigger's sense of lifelong hopelessness becomes evident when he says, "I don't have to do nothing for 'em to get me. The first white finger they point at me, I'm a goner, see?"
