Criminology Current Events #2
Criminal Investigation with Forensic Science article:
Forensics Professor, Dr Maggot uses bugs to assist with crime scene investigations:
The science about figuring out crimes can take the forensic scientists to very gruesome places.
Dr. Tim Huntington has had experience with bugs and entomology which makes him very good with handling the darkest parts of solving crime. The advantage of studying bugs is if the body is decomposed it can create a timeline of when the crime was caused. In Lincoln, Nebraska SGT Chris Vigil explains that bugs are like another witness to the crime but have a different meaning to add to the evidence. The career of entomology is mindblowing because of how specifically you can find the evidence. It’s a type of field in where you can
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Overall, this article connects to class because we talked about how entomology makes forensic science unique in a lot of ways.
Type of Punishment used for the convicted individual:
Mexican citizen executed in Texas for decades-old killing vows he ‘will be back for justice.
Ruben Ramirez Carden who is 47 years old was a Mexican citizen who abducted a girl named Mayra Laguna and beat her to death in 1997 He even made several federal court appeals that failed to end his punishment for the 1997 killing. He was injected a large amount of the drug pentobarbital and in a few breaths he started to snore . In 21 minutes he was dead and it made him the 7th convicted killer who had been sentenced to death this year. Texas is state that executes more people than any other. His punishment was also delayed for several hours in order to check dna evidence. The background to this killing was when Maya got snatched from her bedroom that