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The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

The Hall-Mills Murder “‘Not Guilty’ is verdict in hall case: plan to free prisoners on ball today and probably quash all other charges” (New York Times). The Hall-Mills case was a case in 1922 about the murder of an Episcopal priest and a member of his choir, who he was having an affair with at the time. They were murder on September 14, 1922, in Brunswick, New Jersey. The first people to be suspected of committing the murder was the priest’s wife and her brothers. But with lack of evidence they…

I. Introduction A. History Background of Suicide Suicide, as we all know, raises many ethical debates throughout the history in the society. Most people see it as a morally wrong action but others claimed it as an ethical action. Suicide is the act of killing oneself wherein the guilty and the victim therein is the person him/herself. Looking at the history, people of the ancient city-states (especially the Greeks and Latinos) does not regard self-killing as a legal act and there is no such…

As a state being described as a big-buckled outdoor ethic and intolerance of alternative lifestyles, as said by a New York Times reporter John M. Glionna, an older man named Sissy Goodwin defies these descriptions just be simply getting dressed each day. 67 year old male Sissy Goodwin is a cross-dressing cowboy from the state of Wyoming who likes to wear women's clothes, Sissy is one of many that defy what other people think about Wyoming. In the minds of people that don’t live in Wyoming, they…

Imperialism and colonialism involve a large nation overpowering a smaller nation-state in order to increase its own power and wealth. Rarely does this practice occur without the invading forces bringing pain and misery to the natives of the province. George Orwell, an author and a member of the British Imperial Police, wrote several essays about his experiences during Britain's rule in Burma for the British literary magazine The Adelphi in 1931. Readers of The Adelphi, consisting mainly of…

A Man Reborn They say that hell has several levels. I have no doubt in my mind that the Texas prison system is one of those levels. Jon Wayne Nobles went to prison plagued by his own demons, and what better way to exercise them than by joining the Dominican Order of Preachers? That must have worked for him too, because Nobles is even able to show compassion and learn forgiveness, which he shows Earle before being executed. I have no doubt in my mind that before Nobles dies, he was re-habilitated…

Another method used during this time frame was pressing. This is where the condemned is laid out on a flat rock and more rocks are added on top of them until they are crushed to death. This was done to a man during a mass execution of 20 people was carried out in 3 separate dates in the summer and fall of 1692 for the crime of witchcraft. Other members of the group included women and children. Most of them were hung, but other methods were used (BLACKMAN & MCLAUGHLIN, 2004). This method was also…

Old Idaho Penitentiary Site, Boise, ID 43°36'10.0"N 116°09'43.0"W Old Idaho Penitentiary Site The Old Idaho Penitentiary Site was built in 1870, and the first prisoners arrived two years later. That was also when it was first opened to Idaho. The prison had one cell at one point, but now it has several cells. In 1973, the prison closed, and now people visit to see it and its history. There used to be over 13,000 inmates there, but no one is imprisoned anymore. People go there all of the time,…

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a fine piece of literature, and the beginning of the up-and-rising popularity of dystopian books. It turns out that many songs, no matter to genre and age, match up to many moments that happen in The Giver. These songs carry the tone and message that Lowry delivers through the story, but by using sweet melodies. The song that I think matches The Giver the best is “When the Children Cry” by White Lion, which was recorded in 1987. As strange as it seems, a song that was…

There is a reason Alcatraz was called Uncle Sam’s Devil Island, and that’s because Alcatraz was a prison for the worst of the worst criminals in the United States. Head counts were taken every night in the dark. Most people thought that no one could ever escape the super prison, but they thought wrong. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers all escaped from this brutal prison. There are several reasons why these inmates were able to escape alive. One reason is that the escapees were very clever.…