Edgar Allan Poe's A Cask Of Amontillado

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “ A Cask Of Amontillado” the, quite possibly, insane protagonist, Montresor, grisly murders his antagonist, Fortunato. Montresor alluded, at the end of the vengeful tale, that he never faced any repercussions for the ghastly crime he committed. Many homicidal criminals aspire to escape all possible consequences of their brutal crimes. The rate at which these harsh murders are solved today, is far less than the rate at which they were solved several years ago. Murder clearance rates might be going down because culprits of manslaughter have changed their devious methods of the past. What were once passion crimes are now random shootings (Powell). Police and Judicial workers have and are making inexcusable errors in their

Killers are probably using the escalating use of technology to their advantage (Boostrom). There is an abundance of speculations on why some murders are left in ,what many workers of the law call, “the cold.” Over the last 40 years the methods in which homicides have been committed have changed. Most murders from the past can be related to a crime of passion. Most legal dictionaries define crimes of passion as a crime committed due to sudden rage or heartbreak. These crimes are committed without time for contemplating or planning out the crime (“Crime of Passion”). Homicides of Passion in the twenty-first century are slowly becoming less and less popular. Many murders in today’s time are being executed by a stranger to stranger. The culprit and victim have no relationship to each other and the crime

In the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial the law enforcement and prosecution team made errors that might have prevented the conviction of O.J. Simpson. The prosecution team made Simpson try on a pair of gloves that were thought to have been used in the alleged murder of his wife and her friend. In the one of the most suspenseful moments of the trial, O.J. Slowly applied the gloves over his hands. What the court witnessed was shocking to everyone. The gloves did not fit Mr. Simpson. The defense was then able to argue that he was innocent because the gloves did not fit him. The prosecution team had no prior knowledge of the fact that the gloves were O.J.’s, they were gambling on the idea that the gloves would fit him. Had the prosecution not made him try on the glove, then the defense team would not have had the option to use the gloves as evidence that O.J. was innocent. The defense was also able to find doctors who testified that was thought to be blood spots, traced back to O.J. Simpson, were actually just shoe prints. If these splotches were indeed shoe prints, then that would mean that someone else could have been at the scene and may have committed the homicide. Another argument of the defense was that the police officers had made racial comments directed at O.J. This supported the defense because the said that the officers were racially biased and treated Mr. Simpson