Edgar Allan Poe is an American author who is known for his mystery and macabre short stories and poetry. In the short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe, the story describes the main character killing an old man. The story is written in the perspective of the killer. He states having a disease that sharpened his senses and killing the old man because of the man’s eye that haunted him. The narrator watches the old man for eight nights before deciding to kill him and do the murder. Based on the evidence presented in the 8th Amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be sentenced to twenty years in prison with psychiatric help because of aggravating and mitigating evidence.
To begin the main character should be sentenced
To begin the main character should be sentenced