Capital gain

respected Clutter family are killed. When the murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are finally caught after an extensive investigation, they are given the death sentence. Through a historically accurate and compelling novel, Capote criticizes capital punishment by humanizing Perry and Dick, suggesting their sentence to be unnecessary, and exposing its brutal nature. Capote paints the death penalty in a negative light by presenting the criminals’ more humane characteristics to create…

JonBenet Ramsey: 20 Years Still Unsolved“Speaking to anyone about your situation, such as police, F.B.I, etc., will result in your daughter being beheaded.” (“Forensic Outreach”) That’s what the ransom note found in the Ramsey kitchen said. The note that began the investigation still going on to this day. On Christmas day of 1996, JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, was found dead in her family’s Boulder Colorado home. It has been 20 years and the murder is still unsolved.…

Throughout England’s early modern period, rape is seen through a lens that focuses on a violation of property, reputation, and honour, as well as an assault committed against an individual. In Sir Matthew Hale’s treatise, Historia Placitorum Coronae, the seventeenth century jurist asserts that rape requires “carnal knowledge against her will,” as well as penetration without consent, and under statute law rape is considered a felony, punishable by death. Hale's treatise provides a contemporary…

JonBenet Ramsey’s death is one of the most compelling cases in the history of the FBI. Jonbenet was just six years old when she was killed. She was born in 1990 and killed in 1996. She was mainly famous for her pageants that she participated in, winning six total. Nobody knows how JonBenet truly died, and more information is still being discovered to this day. There are many theories on her death and what happened. There are the common theories saying that her parents killed her, a stranger…

What is Genocide? 1. What is the intent of genocide? The intent of genocide was to destroy the existence of a specific group of people. 2. Why did Raphael Lemkin purpose in coining the term “genocide”? (Why did he do it?) Raphael Lemkin introduced the term “genocide” to promote “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the group themselves,” in other words to force extinction upon a…

The question of whether or not cannibalism occurred in the Jamestown settlement in the 1600’s had been debated by historians for generations. Recently, scholars have turned their attention towards a different question with regards to the cannibalism rumors; the more modern line of inquiry about Jamestown, exemplified in Rachel Herrman’s The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown, is focused on the reasoning behind why multiple accounts of the events were published,…

Ian Watkins is a Welsh singer who born in 1977. He grew up in Pontypridd and debut as a rock band, Lostprophets in 1997 (BBC NEWS, 2013). He was convicted as serious sex offender and was charged in late 2012. He strongly denied about allegations and previously claimed that he was innocent. However, there were many evidence found out such as victim’s indecent photos and videos and crime record of texting. Finally, he pleaded guilty to attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 in…

A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only…

“She turned the gun and shoot him, just the way she tried to shoot me today, and for the same reason” (Chandler 226). Detective Marlowe explained what happened to Rusty Regan as he revealed the major crime happen in Raymond Chandler’s book The Big Sleep. The Big Sleep contained two mysteries: Marlowe was hired by General Sternwood to find out who blackmailed Carmen Sternwood, who turned out to be Geiger; Geiger was murdered in his house, and Marlowe found out that Sternwood’s driver who loved…

Solitary Confinement can be defined as being the physical isolation of individuals who are confined to their cells for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day. Within countless jurisdictions, prisoners are allowed out of their cells for only one hour of solitary exercise. Prisoners are only subjected to routine visits from members of the prison staff, while meaningful contact with other people is typically reduced to the bare minimum. This reduction in stimuli is not only on the grounds of…