“How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again.” This quote came from none other than Damien Echols, the so called “ringleader” of the Worldwide group of teens known as The West Memphis Three. The West Memphis Three were three teenages: Jason Baldwin, Damian Echols, and Jessie Misskelley. These three teens were accused of murdering three little boys along the bank of a creek. The West Memphis Three and Sacco and Vanzetti are two different crimes of murder. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder of two police officers. Justice is something that changes people’s lives for better or worse, and isn’t something
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When arrested and put on trial, the WM3 were ostracized by many people because they wore black clothes, had black hair, and listened to heavy metal music. They were said to be part of dark, satanic cults because of how different they were from everybody else. They listened to Metallica, and were considered very different by doing this because it was said within the rock music lyrics were hidden messages from the …show more content…
In the WM3 case, the teens were said to have used knives to cut up the victims and leave them there for dead. It said they also used rope to tie up the victims and leave there bodies there. They found the knife behind the house of one of the teens, so they automatically thought it was proof they did commit the crime of killing the three boys.
.Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder of two police officers. Justice is something that changes people’s lives for better or worse, and isn’t something to take lightly. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of killing two men with guns, then they were accused of robbing a local bank as well after killing the two. It was said they went up to the two guards and shot them both to death, then proceeded to rob the bank and take about $15,000 from it.
The West Memphis Three case and Sacco and Vanzetti are two different crimes of murder. In these cases, the accused men and young men were convicted at the time, but later found not guilty. Justice was not served right in either of these cases, and innocent people were convicted because of how they dressed, what their religion was, what ethnicity they were, and just how they acted everyday. People need to fix the justice system, and not be biased when judging people on an everyday
When arrested and put on trial, the WM3 were ostracized by many people because they wore black clothes, had black hair, and listened to heavy metal music. They were said to be part of dark, satanic cults because of how different they were from everybody else. They listened to Metallica, and were considered very different by doing this because it was said within the rock music lyrics were hidden messages from the …show more content…
In the WM3 case, the teens were said to have used knives to cut up the victims and leave them there for dead. It said they also used rope to tie up the victims and leave there bodies there. They found the knife behind the house of one of the teens, so they automatically thought it was proof they did commit the crime of killing the three boys.
.Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder of two police officers. Justice is something that changes people’s lives for better or worse, and isn’t something to take lightly. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of killing two men with guns, then they were accused of robbing a local bank as well after killing the two. It was said they went up to the two guards and shot them both to death, then proceeded to rob the bank and take about $15,000 from it.
The West Memphis Three case and Sacco and Vanzetti are two different crimes of murder. In these cases, the accused men and young men were convicted at the time, but later found not guilty. Justice was not served right in either of these cases, and innocent people were convicted because of how they dressed, what their religion was, what ethnicity they were, and just how they acted everyday. People need to fix the justice system, and not be biased when judging people on an everyday