Capital punishment in Texas

In the short story Lather and Nothing Else written by Hernando Tellez, the barber makes the correct decision to spare Captain Torres’ life because he escaped the guilt of having a taken a person’s life, and he avoids the hardships of his entire life being uprooted in a single moment. Although the Captain was a cruel and ruthless executioner, “ No one deserves ... sacrifice that turns other people into murderers” (Tellez, par. 19). The guilt and shame of killing a human are likely to come, and it…

From 1978 to 1991, seventeen male victims, most of them from Milwaukee, were found having been raped, murdered and dismembered, some of them had been involved in necrophilia and cannibalism. Jeffrey Dahmer, who was nicknamed the Milwaukee Cannibal, was the serial killer and sex offender from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who killed those men. After he was caught in 1992, he was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences, but after two year he was killed by another prison inmate Christopher Scarver.…

As a criminal justice major, I found this chapter particularly interesting. I tend to wrestle with the insanity plea. I realize that there are some cases where it is beyond evident that the person was criminally insane. However, for the most part I tend to see it as a cop out. I see it as a way for the defense to get their client freed from responsibility. I think that epically in the most famous cases, like Andrea Yeates, they use a “mental disorder or defect” to excuse the horrible crimes they…

Hardships are the obstacles in our life that hinder us from continuing, but when overcome,it makes living that much more enjoyable. Therefore, the blockades are nothing but a test because they could either make or break a person. Being enclosed and surrounded by nothing but pain and suffering, Celaena, young and beautiful under all the dirt, believed that she would one day be free from her confines. Everyday she would exhaust herself, not at all bothered by the dull ache in her hands, due to…

Throughout this read James Swanson, the author does an incredible job at painting a picture with fine detail about the assassination to hunting Booth down and explaining the adventures of his journeys within the 12 days of the manhunt. Swanson conveys multiple sides of characters involved, looking at seamy as well as heroic sides. In this story, the author also provides us with a window on a particular time in American history, what life was like and what the values of those days were. Swanson…

The Smoking Gun article entitled A Million Little Lies was published on 4th January 2006 and was written by Bill Bastone. The six-page analytical article solely focuses on a six-week investigation undertaken by the website to disclose the methodology applied to uncover the truth about Frey’s “fiction addiction” (Bastone, 2006). Since its publication in 2003, Frey had insisted that every detail of the book contained nothing but the truth. In various interviews, he claims that the book is…

August 15, 1935 Dear Atticus, I’m writing to you to ask you why you are not bothered by Bob’s comments and about the trial decision and if there is still hope for Tom Robinson. First of all, Bob Ewell threatened you and spit on you. How are you not affected in any way from this? I would probably react violently like I did with Mrs. Dubose and her Camelia bushes. How do you hold back your anger, if you even have any inside of you? I’m not sure if I just wasn’t born with the skill of…

On June 17th, 2013 Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd in Massachusetts. Aaron, who is a full time professional football player made this choice to murder multiple people out of cold blood because of his many psychological and emotional issues. Lloyd was a longtime friend of Aaron and it seemed as the two were not getting along and Aaron wanted to do something about it. During the trial, Aaron’s phone and surveillance from Lloyd’s house and Aaron’s were all used as evidence to prove Aaron guilty…

One habit of the defenders in the American legal system is their propensity to answer any outcome within the system that “the system worked.” Subsequently, as long as the defender can define what is meant by the claim, there is no result that can disprove it. Due to this, it is reasonable to argue that the acquittal of Casey Anthony and the removal of charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are both examples of how the system should work. However, when accepting this argument entails recognizing…

Reference: According to our text, justifications of punishment are broken down into two school theories, utilitarian and retributive. Under retributive justification, retributivists believe that punishment based on the notion that people deserve it and the punishment should be in proportion to the crime (Brody & Acker, 2010, p. 7). In short, retributivists’ beliefs are based on philosophical philosophies of punishment, dealing with the moral aspects of humanity; mainly old school eye for an eye…