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To summarize this article, Tawana Brawley was an innocent 15-year-old girl that viciously been gang raped by six man one described as a cop. Her fragile body was found smeared with manure. Tawana later became a symbol, representing the unequal Justice for African Americans. Her story received many attention and was given lifelong donations that would benefit her in the future, but justice was never fought for this blameless girl. Nevertheless, When Rev. Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox Jr., and C. Vernon Mason took on her case that would be the beginning of the end to finding justice for Tawana.
Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis lasting from November of 1979 to the day Reagan’s inauguration. During this period of time, sixty six Americans were held in captivity by Students Following the Line of Imam after the United States allowed the Shah to undergo medical treatment amidst the Iranian revolution. Americans, after a tough decade of inflation, gas shortages, lack of trust in the government, and the defeat in Vietnam were yet again brought into a situation in which required their complete faith that the Carter administration would save the captives. The hostage crisis was a complete shock to the American people in addition to the heightened tensions because of economic decline, government mistrust, and energy
On 1975, Jimmy Hoffa was vanished after he went to Machus Red Fox, for an important meeting with Frank Sheeran, Anthony Provenzano, and Tony Giacalone. He was never seen by anyone after that day. His last phone call was with his wife saying nobody was there to do a meeting. Later, Sheeran and others came and told the place of meeting was changed. Hoffa immediately got in the car and he was taken to a house in north west detroit.
Pow” “Pow” here comes Bonnie and Clyde running from the cops. Bonnie and Clyde are one of the most well known criminal couple in all history. They even have and oscar winning movie, and a Broadway musical. Bonnie and Clyde’s almost two-year crime spree spanned over several states, with a gang responsible for the murder of several people that included law enforcement officials.
This past Sunday, June 18th, America lost muslim teen, Nabra Hassanen to what most call road rage, and others, a hate crime. Hassanen, accompanied by a group of friends were headed back to a local mosque after a trip to a fast-food restaurant. It was then that they encountered driver Darwin Martinez Torres and an argument erupted. The altercation escalated, resulting in the capturing and death of 17 year old Hassanen. Torres had beaten her with a baseball bat, abducted her, and dumped her body into a lake.
On June 24, 2006, Patsy Ramsey died after a long battle with ovarian cancer. This was nearly 10 years after JonBenét’s death. Patsy is buried next to JonBenét, in Atlanta, Georgia, where the family lived before moving to Colorado. At that time public outcry centered on the fact that Patsy Ramsey passed away before justice could be served in the death of her
To survive, she would hitchhike and sell herself for money along the way (Biography.com, n/d). From late 1989 to the fall of 1990, she was responsible for murdering six men in Florida and was a suspect in a seventh (Koch, 2002). In 1992, Wuornos was found guilty for the first murder discovered and got the death penalty. She spent over ten years waiting to be executed by lethal injection. Wuornos ended up firing her lawyers who were trying to delay her execution even more (Biography.com, n/d).
Houston, Texas, was home to Andrea Yates; a wife and a mother to Randy Yates and their five children. One morning in the year 2001, she dialed, 911 breathing heavily into the phone “I need a police officer,” (O’Malley). The news over Andrea Yates drowning her children spread like wildfire across the nation, horrifying Americans. Following her confession, she pleaded innocent with the “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” (NGRI) plea, yet the jury rejected her appeal and found her guilty of five accounts of first-degree murder. However, in the retrial of 2006, Yates’ abiding murder convictions were overturned, and Andrea Yates was found NGRI.
“A Woman Doing Life” is a unique book that describes and understands the experiences of incarcerated women. The author, Erin George, herself got arrested with charge of murder of her husband and was sentenced to prison for 603 years. She portrayed the true picture of how women, especially those with no criminal backgrounds, seek their identity in this ‘no exit’ place and find ways to adapt harsh painful circumstances in female correctional setting. It is a common misconception that officers of such institutions are always taking advantage of incarcerated women for the satisfaction of their own sexual desires. But, the real picture is not as bad as it is perceived.
Police later raided a SLA hideout and were shot at by heavily armed SLA members but eventually the SLA embers were killed, Patty was not in the raid. Over a year later Patty Hearst is finally captured on september 18th 1975 from her apartment in outer san francisco . Patty´s mother stated that Pattyś criminal actions weren't that serious and she should not serve any jail time. Ms Hearst's 30-year sentence for bank robbery was eventually cut to seven years, then two, after President Clinton pardoned her. Patty Hearst father was forced to donate $2 million dollars for patty in donations to the
Introduction Colin Ferguson was convicted of the December 7, 1993 shooting of 25 people aboard the Long Island Rail Road commuter train out of Penn Station at Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, New York, New York. He killed six and wounded nineteen before being stopped by three of the passengers: Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee, and Mike O'Connor. Ferguson's trial was notable for a number of unusual developments, including his firing of his defense counsel and insisting on representing himself and examining himself as a live witness. Before the trial, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby attempted to argue that Ferguson was driven to mental illness through years of living in an oppressive and racist society.
She was enraged at the Nazi oppression and racial intolerance that she had seen. “My children are safe while others are threatened” (Cole, 1). She soon acted on that anger, by joining the underground National Movement Against Racism (MNCR). While there, she walked the streets
She is still in prison at the age of 67. Patricia Krenwinkel has had 13 parole hearing and had been all denied and she can have another parole hearing in 7 more years. Patricia Krenwinkel has changed, she says “I'm just haunted each and every day by the unending suffering my participation in the murder has caused the family and friends of my victims”. Her role in prison is to help prisoners learn how to read.krenwinkel has a perfect prison record, not once has she received a write-up. She is active with many prison programs such as an Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous.
After arguing the failure of prisons, Mendieta establishes his agreement with Davis’ anti-prison rhetoric without introducing the author, her book, or other various abolitionist efforts, “I will also argue that Davis’s work is perhaps one of the best philosophical as well as political responses to the expansion of the prison system...” (Mendieta 293). The article’s author also assumes that readers are familiar with specific torture tactics used on prisoners,“...the United States is facing one of its most devastating moral and political debacles in its history with the disclosures of torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and other such prisons…” (293). Mendieta’s act of assuming that readers will already be familiar with Angela Davis and her work, as well as the specific methods of torture used by certain prisons, may cause readers to feel lost while reading the
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston addresses prevalent topics faced in America today. How should women act? Should women be treated differently from men? In her memoir, Kingston faces many obstacles with her Chinese-American identity such as finding her voice as a young woman. In “White Tigers,” Kingston tells her own version of a popular Chinese ballad, “Fa Mu Lan,” while incorporating her own reality back into the section.
