Capital punishment in Texas

a. Based on coaching he was provided from the lawyer representing a doctor who was being sued for medical malpractice, Lars Aanning lied under oath and admitted to it 15 years later. Rather than participate in a revocation trail, Lars has recently decided to surrender his medical license since this story broke. When Lars initially lied on the stand he expressed how it felt less like he was lying and more like he was helping out a college in need. In an interview Lars expressed the truth behind…

Recent speculations have fans, reporters, and investigators questioning the death of rock musician Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s found dead, with shotgun wound to his head on April 8th by an electrician, at the couples Washington lake house. The same day Cobain’s body was found, news was released that the rock legend had committed suicide. With lack of investigation, Cobain’s body was cremated 6 days after his body was found. The Seattle P.D. withheld the shotgun for 30 days before it was processed for…

The bystander effect is a social psychological occurrence that refers to scenarios where individuals do not provide help during emergency cases to the victim in the presence of other people. Conventionally, there is an inverse relationship between the number of bystanders and the probability of help. Meaning that the likelihood of receiving help reduces with an increase in the number of bystanders. The sheer presence of bystanders serves to reduce the chances of intervention. This is because an…

He asserted that we can not take our own live because to do so would be to remove our souls from our bodies. Our lives are punishment by the Gods so to take our own punishment away would cause great distress to the Gods. His student, Plato, continued along Socrates teaching making a few exceptions when suicide was acceptable. The first was when self-killing was a judicial order, as in the case of…

Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is about a tradition where the villagers must make a sacrifice in order for their crops to have a good season. Tessie Hutchinson picks the slip of paper with the black coal mark in the center and she is the one to be sacrificed which means the villagers, even her family, must stone her to death. The theme of this story is that traditions can be good or bad. Traditions can result in lots of different scenarios. Tessie wins the lottery and she gets stoned…

Kurt Cobain Death Conspiracy “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” This quote may or may not sound familiar, depending on if you’re a fan of Kurt Cobain. If you are a fan, then you should know that he’s dead. There are many different theories of how he died; suicide, murder, or a faked death. Based on evidence, a lot of detectives and Nirvana fans believe that this was indeed a murder. Based on even more evidence, a huge suspect for the murder is Kurt Cobain’s wife,…

The conflict theory only helps to explain a small variance of all the white-collar crimes and is more applicable for the super-rich individuals. Hence there must be other reasons why other people (e.g those that are of lower status) are still committing white-collar crimes. The general strain theory thus helps to provide another viewpoint on this issue. In brief, the general strain theory claims that strain happens because of the loss of positive stimuli and presence of salient negative emotions…

Shirley Jackson was a well-known prized author specifically for her short stories, “The Lottery,” Life among the Savages,” and “Raising Demons.” Mrs. Jackson also wrote several novels such as “The Haunting of Hill House,” and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle.” Her writings are known to be eerie and dark, particularly, “The Lottery.” Although the story was written in about two hours with little revision the sheer horror and disbelief in the underlying surface of the story line were captured…

Gary Ridgway is one of America’s most prominent serial killers. He killed for 18 years, until physical evidence was able to link him to murder. Over those years here was picked up for other crimes and released. It is because of him and other killers that America must become better at finding physical evidence. Gary was born in 1949, he is the middle child of three boys. His home life wasn’t completely upsetting, just the occasional heated argument between his parents. His IQ was tested at 82,…

The Jefferson County Egan Murders took place on New Year’s Eve in 1964. The Egan family was found murdered at a rest stop on Interstate 81. The Egan trio consisted of Peter Egan, Barbara Egan, and Gerald Egan. This case was important to prosecute because the Egan’s were wanted for various crimes. Although the question remained, who murdered the Egan’s? Rumors and news media sparked many possibilities for what might have happened that night, which made investigators more eager to intervene.…