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Putting Nancy In Prison

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The case I have chosen is about 52-year-old Nancy Seaman. Nancy was an elementary school teacher who claims to have been in an abusive relationship with her husband Bob for 31 years. One day, Bob found out that Nancy was going to move out of their home and chased her into the garage with a knife. In the garage, Nancy stabbed Bob 15 times with a hatchet and 21 times with the knife. Later that day, Nancy went to work because she claims she could not find a substitute teacher to take over her class. Further evidence for this case was: surveillance footage of her buying the hatchet from Home Depot a day before the murder, and the cops found Bob’s body wrapped in tarp in the back of her car a week later after the murder. Nancy has two sons, the …show more content…

Would provide some type of psychological therapy, hold her in jail during the trial, and sentence 5 years in prison. Reasons for putting her in prison is because she did commit an act of murder and for that, she deserves some prison time. Doesn’t know what she is trying to achieve by putting Nancy in prison, other than she is trying to punish a crime. This person is proposing rehabilitation by considering that Nancy needs psychological therapy, but ultimately the theory of correction followed here is retribution, which is putting Nancy in prison just for the sake of punishment.
Person #2: Believes Nancy should be charged with 2nd-degree murder, doesn’t believe that the murder was completely pre-meditated and was loosely self-defense. Would give her a psych evaluation and 20-25 years in prison. Would put her in jail because she did kill her husband in an excessive way and deserve to be put in prison for murder. By putting her in prison, Nancy can reflect on what she did and realize that she murdered her husband, and that is wrong. This person’s approach is strictly retributive by giving Nancy a lengthy prison sentence just for the sake of giving a punishment to a crime. This person also took into account of minimum sentencing for 2nd-degree murder which is at least 10 years without a firearm, and 25 years with a firearm.
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