Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

Consider the following scenario: Before Armin Meiwes, who had killed and eaten Bernd Brandes, was convicted to lifetime imprisonment by the Land Court of Frankfurt in 2006, his lawyers contended that the sentence should be of “killing upon request”, which would have amounted to a sentence of up to five years. Their claim was based on the fact that Brandes had agreed to be killed and eaten. Contrarily, German prosecutors claimed that due to the victim’s perturbed mental state, something that…

Based on information gathered by the prosecution prior to November 6th, 2017, I believe that the jury will find defendant Rebekah Ponder guilty of the murder of Walter White, and defendant Elshaday Yilma will be found complicit. However, evidence will be found insufficient for the jury or an otherwise reasonable person to convict either defendant of robbery. During the trial, the jury will convict Ponder and Yilma of murder and complicity to murder because of the evidence that will be proven…

Life in prison.The rest of life spent in a bleak prison where everyday looks the same. In the United States this is the lightest sentence a murderer can receive. The most severe punishment is execution. Some citizens agree with this “eye for an eye” scenario and many who think it is far too harsh of a punishment. Many times it is simply easier to say a death for death no matter the context and not look into the factors that lead up to the murder. Truman Capote in his book In Cold Blood not only…

When presented with a difficult and heartbreaking case, it may be hard for one to reach a verdict. To decide whether one is innocent or not, one must evaluate all given evidence and testimonies. As a juror on the case of Maria Santiago, I was given the opportunity to find if Santiago was guilty in the murder of Allison Santiago, her six month old daughter. After evaluating all the evidence given, I have come to the conclusion that I have formed no reasonable doubt towards this case, therefore my…

What constitutes cruel and unusual punishment? To Truman Capote, capital punishment came in direct violation of the 8th Amendment, regardless of the crime.. This was evident when he graphically described the hanging of Lowell Lee Andrews, a cellmate of the murderers in In Cold Blood. When initially written, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was a revolutionary novel. By exploring the quadruple murder which shocked a quiet Kansas town, Capote brought the genre of true crime to life as well as the…

Why would Rae Concha intentionally kill Jason Johnson, his best friend with his Adderall? It is a known fact that Jason died, and that Adderall and alcohol was found in his body but was it really Rae Concha that caused it? Dr. Casey Burke testified that Jason’s abuse of alcohol caused cardiac arrest, killing him. He got all of the information to get to this conclusion from the autopsy that Dr. Ricki Sanchez did, and from Jason’s previous medical records. If there is an issue with his examination…

Criminal Justice Response The case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was discovered by the press in 1972 (Brandt, 1978). According to the author Susan Reverby, the news article was titled “Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 years.” This article caused a major public outcry. People reacted negatively to the to the story, and compared the Tuskegee Study to genocide (Reverby, 2009). At this point, over 100 of the 600 test subjects had died from untreated syphilis (Brandt, 1978). The…

pertaining to cruel and unusual punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). These Amendments forbid the obligation of the death penalty for those who suffered from a mental disability and who were insane should be prohibited from a sentence of capital punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). According to the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, it was lawful to execute a juvenile delinquent who was 15 years older but younger than 18 when he committed a capital crime (Elrod and…

In the movie Law Abiding citizen it is about a man who goes through a traumatizing event where his wife and his daughter were killed in raped by a man named, Clarence Darby. There was two suspects Darby and Rupert Ames, they were both convicted of murder and Ames was sent to death row, but Darby the one who did the killing and raping made a plea deal with Nick Rice rising prosecutor at the time. Clyde the husband and father of the two that were killed was furious at the idea that one serves the…

(Kashatus). To this day, this handprint of the suspected Molly Maguire remains. These men faced many hardships and their supposed tactics were extremely controversial, however, their story is an everlasting inspiration to the working class of the United States of America. In the story of the Molly Maguires, there are quite a few gaping holes. If one were to look…