1) On August 28, 1986, a woman named Queen Madge White was found dead in her home in Rome, Georgia. She was a 79-year-old widow and was found to be beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death. Her home had also been burglarized. Timothy Foster, an 18-year-old black male, confessed to the crime and officers recovered some of the stolen items from Foster’s home. The State subsequently indicted him for malice, murder, and burglary and the jury that was selected convicted him of capital murder and assigned the death penalty.
In Ida B. Wells’ works Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and A Red Record, Ida B. Wells argues against the lynching of African Americans of the time. Wells’ uses many strategies and techniques to make her arguments as convincing as possible throughout her works. She also uses clear language and well-structured sentences to make it clear what she is arguing. Ida B. Wells makes sure to use statistics and offers rebuttals to the opposing side’s point of view to strengthen her argument. Wells presents these arguments by isolating and clearly stating the problem, giving descriptive and specific examples, using statistics, and offering rebuttals.
Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases Book Review Da B. Wells-Barnett has written the book under review. The book has been divided into six chapters that cover the various themes that author intended to fulfill. The book is mainly about the Afro-Americans and how they were treated within the American society in the late 1800s. The first chapter of the book is “the offense” band this is the chapter that explains the issues that have been able to make the Afro-American community to be treated in a bad way by the whites in the United States in the late 1800s.
In a lynching, a mob of Klansmen and their supporters carry out a murder on an African American, usually in the form of a hanging (4). The mob would then leave the body out for a public display as a warning sign to others (6). If the victim was a women, sexual assault and rape were not uncommon nor were they out of the question (4). The most common reason for a lynching was that a black male had sought sexual relations with a white woman in some form (6). The Klan would carry out lynching's under the predication that they were protecting the community
TKAM/Scottsboro- Final Paper Racism has been a major social issue in our modern world. From many years ago to today, there has been discrimination among many. Nine young african american men were accused of rapping 2 white women in 1931 (Scottsboro Boys) and a black man was accused of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird. The men were falsely convicted due to the fact that they were black men and the victims were white women.
In 1931, the world witnessed one of the most famous legal lynchings in the Scottsboro Trial. (1931-37). Therefore, this paper identifies and critically discusses the symbolic issues that engaged the public’s sense, the morality and/or the imagination. This will help in better understanding the reasons for lynching’s popularity throughout history. This paper will contend that this verdict was predetermined by an ideology of white supremacy exemplified by racial, gendered, political and sexual stereotypes.
The anti-lynching writings therefore enclosed a comprehensive view of the racialized sexual politics of the south; a justification of the black men as true men, a critique of white would-be protectors as just corrupt and exposure of white women as active participants to white supremacy in sexual politics together with re-centering of the black women’s experiences in the incidences of rape, sexualized racism and lynching. She documented unbiased suffering of attacks of lynching and rape on black women and girls. By so doing, she staged a claim of outraged black womanhood that was first articulated by the opponents of slavery though becoming unthinkable under the white supremacists ideology by time the nineteenth century came to an end. She also describes the black women rapes as a piece of black men
I find that this example highlights the fact that while women had far less political power in society during the nineteenth century, the least the law could do was to protect the sexual integrity of women; However, African American women suffered from racial, gender and class discrimination that makes it difficult for them to prosecute those that sexually assault them. Furthermore, anger of white men were usually taken out on the wives of freed African American men and usually in the form of sexual assaults and this made the situation for African American women
Jeremiahs ' mother deceased and was cared for by his grandmother who is now deceased. The court gave custody to the aunt (Latanya), but she has not been living in the home. Latanya lives in Jackson, MS, with her boyfriend, and is employed in Vicksburg, MS. Latanya would visit the home in Vicksburg daily. Jeremiah is being whooped by the other aunt (LaShonda) with an extension cord and anything else.
In recent years, anti-death penalty propagandists have succeeded in stoking the fear that capital punishment is being carelessly meted out. Ironically, Of the 875 prisoners executed in the United States in modern times, not one has been retroactively proved innocent. The benefits of a legal system in which judges and juries have the option of sentencing the cruelest or coldest murderers to death far outweigh the potential risk of executing an innocent person. First and foremost, the death penalty makes it possible for justice to be done to those who commit the worst of all crimes. The execution of a murderer sends a powerful moral message: that the innocent life he took was so precious, and the crime he committed so horrific, that he forfeits
Another issue that was discussed is the inequality of death penalty in practice. There have been serious issues with racial discrimination. For reference in cases with white victims and black defendants convictions occurred twenty two percent of the time while with black victims and white defendants with percentage dropped to a measly three
Lynching was an unjustly practice that became common in the South. It was an extrajudicial punishment led by a mob in order to publicly execute those with alleged crimes. For example, in 1894, 197 people were murdered by mobs who did not allow their victims to make a lawful defense. In correlation to the evidence presented by Wells, the textbook indicates how law enforcement would make no effort to prevent these crimes from occurring in the first place. In contrast, not only was this "awful barbarism ignored," but these officers of the law also took part in the cruel acts by enabling the lynching.
In America culture, the legal system has provided an equal criminal justice system no matter the race, gender, sexuality, religion, and culture. The death penalty is one of the heaviest debatable topic throughout history. Liberals question the mortality of ending someone life whether it’s a pleasant or virtually unethical ending. Many organizations have dedicated their life to discontinue the death penalty. Ever since the case of Furman vs. The State of Georgia; the legal system has established a guidelines and rules in order to receive the death penalty.
Female gang members have been around nearly as long as the inception of the first gangs, however they have never been held to the same standard as the male gang members. Female gang members have always been looked down upon and never taken seriously, mostly because they are considered to be inferior to the male members. This can be a very dangerous assumption, because this forces the females to prove their worth and make the point that they too have a place in the gang community. Female gang activity and crime have been on the rise for a while now and so has the severity of the crimes they have and are committing daily. Because of the ruthlessness in the crimes females are committing, I do not see that law enforcement will change their approach, just because the members happen to be female, however, programs may be devised to accommodate female involvements in gangs.
Feminist theory shows the ways of a gender structured life . This culture is also displayed in Crime and Punishment by Sonya and Dunya. Feminist criticism is a type of literary criticism that was well known in the 1970’s. Women would begin taking apart the classics and analyzing how the author portrayed women. The women in Crime and Punishment , especially Sonya and Dunya have a stronger state of mind and are able to handle the pressures and struggles of life better than the men in the novel.
