Crime Description This paper will analyze the murder of Vanessa Pham by Julio Miguel Blanco-Garcia. Around 3:30 in the afternoon on June 27, 2010, as Vanessa Pham was leaving a nail salon in Fairfax Plaza Shopping Center when Julio Blanco-Garcia approached her. Blanco-Garcia, high on PCP and carrying his infant daughter, told Pham that he was having a medical emergency and asked her to drive him to the hospital. Vanessa agreed and allowed the two into her car.
This case is about when a man named Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams tried to gain executive clemency from the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the case he was tried for being accused of murder using a shotgun. When Williams was being arrested there was a twelve-gauge shotgun shell found at the crime scene while there was an investigation going on at the Brookhaven motel. This shell was then use against Mr. Williams in the murder trial against him stating that about 5 a.m. on March 11, 1979, he broke into the Brookhaven motel and killed Yen-Yi Yang and his wife who was Tsai-Shai C. Yang who were both immigrants coming from Taiwan. The accusation comes because of the shotgun found in Williams’s possession and he took their cash that
Have you ever been accused of something you didn 't do? Stealing something, not doing your homework, etc... Well there are people all over America that have been accused of stealing, killing or other crimes that they did not commit, and they were severely punished for it. People like Claude Jones, Cameron Todd Willingham, and Larry Griffin, were all falsely accused and punished for a crime someone else committed. Some were even put away because there was false evidence provided.
No. Sam Temple did not. Since the only witness to the murder was Juan Diego was his wife, Sam Temple got away with murder after saying Juan Diego came out of the door with a knife. Looking over the story one can see how this character of Alessandro is rooted in reality and that Helen Hunt Jackson was trying to expose the mistreatment of the Native Americans through her love
One of the many landmark cases heard by the United States Supreme Court in American history was Lemon vs Kurtzman. In 1971 the Supreme Court had to decide if states could give money to certain religious based schools to hire staff even if the teachers couldn’t teach religious classes. The first amendment to the Constitution established the law of separation of church and state. What is the established boundary between church and state? This case would be the defining point in that fight between the involvement of a state and the churches.
The Supreme Court came back with a decision six months later with a 5-4 decision. This meant that 5 judges were for the death penalty and 4 were against. Justices Douglass, Brennan, Stewart, White and Marshal all concurred that executing Furman was wrong. Justices Burger, Blackmun, Powell, and Rehnquist all voted that the execution was the correct action to take against Furman. The court’s decision was that giving Furman the death penalty was cruel and unusual and in clear violation of the constitution.
Even though there was evidence that tipped off that the murder was in fact unintentional, Furman was sentenced to death by electrocution in the state of Georgia. Furman did appeal to both the sentence and conviction, and the Georgia Supreme Court endorsed both on April 24th, 1969. But on the 3rd of May, the court delayed Furman’s execution so that Furman could have a chance to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Furman’s case grew to be so popular, that other lawyers wanted to join Clarence Mayfield and help with this case. One important figure in this case was Anthony G. Amsterdam.
"I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time. " - David Berkowitz Joseph D. Ball was born on January 7, 1896 in Elmendorf, Texas. He was the type of man that women feared and never wanted to come in contact with. Joe Ball was a heartless and savage man that hated women.
Duane Buck was arrested for killing his ex girlfriend and her friend. He was then convicted of capital murder afterwards. Capital murder is any murder that makes the killer eligible for the death penalty. For the death penalty to be executed, it needs to be decided that the murderer will be dangerous after his release. While deciding the penalty during the trial, Lorie Davis, the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the prosecution, had evidence of Buck’s danger in the future based on his criminal history, his conduct, and behavior before and after his arrest.
On November 1, 1973 jury convened for approximately five hours before declaring Edmund Kemper III guilty. Kemper requested his sentence to be death, death by torture. Instead, Judge Harry F. Brauer indicted him of eight accounts of first degree murder and sentenced him seven years to life cc (concurrently) at the California Medical Facility. Many, including Edmund himself, believe his actions and crimes were caused by his disturbed childhood.
He was hung for his crimes even if they were not true. The court felt that they had done what was best for the community. They both similarly had to be punished for the sake of the community to be right
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Hadrien Olinger Newspaper Article Report on the death of Tom Robinson Maycomb country Tom Robinson, accused of rape People involved in this trial: Atticus Finch, lawyer of Tom Robinson Mayella Violet Ewell (19) - says she got raped Judge Taylor- the judge Mr Gilmer- lawyer of Mayella Ewell Tom Robinson (27)- accused of rape Tom Robinson gets shot dead a few hours after his trial. Had no hope left in him and decided to go for the run. He was accused of raping a white girl.
As a first issue that the death penalty can have is that innocent people can died.. The opponents say that this law is unfair and innocent people can died. According to an inform for the Columbia Human Right showed the case of Carlos DeLuna a man who was died in the hands of the death penalty. In this case the state of Texas do not show evidences like DNA, they only use a eyewitness testimony to convicted Carlos DeLuna. Also, two decades after the execution of Carlos DeLuna people knew the truth about the case and men was innocent.
“Will you let me go to hell the way I want to.” This famous line was said by Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill was well known for being an outlaw and lawman. “His skills and a gunfighter and scout… provided the basis for his fame” (Wild 3) He also was a great gambler.
Monday, January 22, 1951, Cayetano Gentile Chimento was murdered to avenge Margarita Chica’s honor. When someone close to all of the parties involved received a telegram that informed him of this tragedy, he decided to travel back to Sucre, Colombia where the crime had occurred. It would not be until thirty years later that this man would tell a story inspired by the events that took place. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, recounts the foretold, passionate murder of Santiago Nasar. Angela Vicario was to wed Bayardo San Roman, but when he found out that she was not a virgin on the night of their wedding she was returned home and named Santiago Nasar as the one who had taken her virginity.
