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Capital punishment in the justice system
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Capital punishment in the justice system
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EMT stated Anna’s death. Police told the crime scene investigators and the medical examiner to come to the house. Anna was found lying in a puddle of her blood right by her head.
In 1978, Larry Hicks was convicted on two counts of murder and was sentence to death. At 19 years old, Hicks was attending a local party at a neighbor’s apartment. At the party Hicks was spotted waving a knife and it raised awareness by the attendees. As the party continued a fight broke out in the apartment and two men were murdered by severe stabbing with a knife. When law enforcement officials rushed to the crime scene, eyewitness testimony declared Hicks and Bernard Scates as a primary suspects.
Jeffrey Moldowan and Michael Cristini, two men from Macomb County, Michigan, went on trial accused of rape and assault. The primary evidence against them consisted of the victim’s eyewitness identification and bite mark analysis by two dentists. Both dentists testified that the bite marks on the woman’s body matched the teeth of Cristini and Moldowan. One of those dentists, Allan Warnick, testified that the likelihood a bite mark on the female victim was made by someone other than Moldowan, “was at least 3 million to 1.” Later, the other dentist, Dr. Pamela Hammel recanted her testimony, saying that she had been uncertain that either defendant had in fact been responsible for the bite marks.
In Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are two ex-convicts who murder the 4 undeserving members of the Clutter family in search of a safe full of money. A massive manhunt was launched to track down the killers. They were eventually arrested and brought back to Kansas to stand trial. Dick and Perry were both sentenced to the death penalty.. Dick Hickock
When police arrived at the home they found a car in the driveway with fresh blood dripping from the trunk. After opening the trunk, the police discovered Lynn Elliott’s body with a fresh gunshot wound to the head (Newton 1990). After a 90 minute standoff with authorities (Holsman 2012), Gore surrendered and directed police to where Martin was being held inside the home (Newton 1990). At the time, police were unable to find Waterfield at the home. When the cousins were bringing the two girls back to Gore’s family home, they drove passed Waterfield’s sister.
“And so it happened that in the daylight hours of that Wednesday morning, Alvin Dewey, breakfasting at the coffee shop of a Topeka hotel, read, on the first page of the Kansas City Star, a headline he had long awaited: ‘Die on Rope for Bloody Crime.’ The story, written by an associated press reporter, began: ‘Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, parteners in crime, died on that gallows at the state penetentary early today for one of the bloodiest murders in Kansas criminal annals. Hickock, 33 years old, died first,at 12:41 A.M.; Smith died at 1:19...’” (Capote 337). Though this quote is fairly long, I chose it because it shows justice being served to the brutal murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
John Colter and Tom Murphy are the two explorers that discovered the same land that is now called "Yellow Stone National Park". John Colter had gone by himself in 1808. He had discovered hot springs, bubbling mud pots, and exploding geysers. But when he told people no one believed him and no one else went because they called it "Colter 's Hell". In 1986 Tom Murphy decided to go there and look at it and some photographs, when he got there he saw wild life and everything John Colter had seen almost one century ago.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." By Winston S. Churchill. Those who took the path instead of believing they will inherit success, including people like Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Oprah Winfrey. Two particular people who have followed the path to success are Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan. Defying many obstacles as gender discrimination and racism, they are key figures in history today.
Saying they were the only two soldiers who were clearly proven to fire into the crowd. So on December 14, the two came in for a second trial, for their sentencing. During the trial, they were asked why they should not be put to death. They plead “the benefit of clergy” and instead were branded on the thumbs, to be forever reminded of that day. Mr. Samuel Adams cousin of the defense attorney during the trial Mr. John Adams, expressed is dismay of the decision.
Dick Hickock and Perry Smith have several psychological motivations behind murdering the Clutter family. Their psychological behaviors came from many different things, for example, childhood experiences, societal influences, and personal choices. These events would cause Dick to be a sociopath and Perry to suffer from schizophrenia and PTSD as well as many other mental health issues. These diagnoses would have a big part in murdering the clutter. Dick Hickock was born June 6, 1931, in Kansas City.
However, after more recent research and reviewing much of the conjecture and comments made over the years by many writers of the events surrounding the murder of Cirkle and of the evidence that has assumed the culpability of John Gilbert and Jack O'Meally, and although as has been well established that O’Meally and Gilbert were indeed frequently in action in the area of the Miners Rest Inn at Spring Creek Burrangong then owned by Mr. Cirkle, consequently, on the new evidence it has become veritably apparent that O'Meally was the suspected shooter of Adolf Cirkle, but not in conjunction with John Gilbert, but another person named John Clarke. Furthermore, the article below appeared in the 'The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser'
Murder. It is a nasty word. To take a life is one of the worst possible crimes one can commit. Nonetheless, people still do it. The Rae Carruth murder trial was one of the most highly publicized cases in 1999.
On January 5th, 1993 at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Westley Allan Dodd was executed by hanging for the killing of three boys, ages four, ten and eleven. Dodd became the first prisoner to be hanged in the United States since 1965, when two inmates were executed in Kansas (Egan). Before The Governor of Washington suspended the death penalty in 2014, the State of Washington executed 78 prisoners between the years 1904 and 2010 (WA DOC). Westley
I chose a serial killer named Edmund Kemper. Edmund Kemper's parents divorced while he was quite young and he was sent to live with his mother and two sisters in Montana. Kemper did not have a good relationship with his mother, an alcoholic. When Kemper was just ten years old his mother forced him to live in the basement in fear of him hurting his sisters in any way. Signs of his trouble started very early with dark fantasies and even dreams of killing his mother.
There are several Psychological theories that could contribute a path to delinquency. They include psychodynamic theory, the attachment theory, the moral development theory and the behavioral theory just to name a few. In researching information on Eric Smith, I believe he had several underlying issues that contributed to his violent senseless crime against a helpless little boy. I feel the lack of moral development was a huge factor that caused this youth to explode. Eric Smith was 13 years old, in 1993, when he murdered Derrick Robie, a 4-year-old little boy.
