Guilty Innocence
Justice Thurgood Marshall liked to say: “If you execute an innocent person, what are you going to say? Oops?” How does “Oops” heal a mother’s broken heart when her child has been killed for a crime he/she never even committed? How does “oops” help raise a child who will grow up without a mother or father because of the law? How many times does the legal system have to say “Oops” before there will be justice served for those who have been wrongfully convicted and possibly died for their innocence? Wrongful conviction is often caused by mistaken eyewitness identity, civil misconduct, and has even lead to the creation of a television series called Vindicated. In a nationwide, 23 year long research report, University of
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The first is in chapters 7 and 8 when Justine is killed for murdering Victor Frankenstein’s younger brother, William. Really the boy was killed by the monster that Frankenstein had created and deserted and left in his home, which later escaped and started killing because he was lonely. After killing William, the monster takes a picture of William’s mother that he always carried around out of his pocket. As he was wandering, he came upon Justine sleeping in her family’s barn; the monster then placed the picture in the pocket of Justine’s garment making the perfect crime scene and murder suspect. When Frankenstein receives a letter from his father, he returns home and hears of the murder first-hand, he cannot help but to earnestly reply, “You are all mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent” (Shelley 66). But how can he prove she is innocent and that he knows his brother’s killer when he was not even in town when the murder occurred? How could he confess to creating such a monster and then abandoning it, leaving it to run around and kill innocent people? How could he let an innocent young girl lose her life behind his