How To Be Executed In To Kill A Mockingbird

people that commit crimes should be executed Before reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee I did think that people should be executed if they commit a crime such as rape, or murder. However, after reading this powerful book it really opened my eyes and I realised how bad things truly were back then. For example if a white person said that a black person raped them the black person will get killed if they are innocent or not and without a fair trial. Tom Robinson, a negro had to go to court because Mayella Ewell, a white girl claimed that he had raped her. He was innocent but was still accused guilty and was put to death shorty after the court trial. My thoughts before To Kill A Mockingbird were that I strongly agreed that people should be executed because of rape, or murder. The people that got raped or murdered did not have a choice so the criminal should not either. I think I mostly felt this way from learning a lot about these topics at a young age, and never understood why people …show more content…
Bob has a drinking problem and gets out of hand majority of the time. He has done some pretty crazy stuff including breaking into the judge’s house and harassing Helen Robinson, Tom’s wife. The kids, Jem and Scout were on their way to a halloween pageant at school. Scout dressed as a ham and could not move very well. After the pageant Jem and Scout started to walk home in the pitch black night, not expecting anything to happen. They heard footsteps behind them and Jem caught on pretty quickly that someone was following them but tried to keep Scout calm. They stayed silent when all the sudden someone threw Jem to the ground along with Scout. The attacker started running but fell a few feet away. Atticus, the kids dad, and Heck Tate, the sheriff of Maycomb county found Tom Robinson laying on the ground with a knife in his