Jason Baldwin

reaffirming the fear of satanic worship in that it was dangerous and could kill innocent lives, like the lives of the three boys. By using the fear of Satan, Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley were all tried wrongly to prison or death. Echols on the other was sentenced to death. His charge was three counts of first-degree murder, but, unlike Baldwin and Misskelly, Echols did not show any signs of remorse for killing the children during the…

Debating has been an activity that is not widely known in high school due to a lack of popularity. Maybe it’s because no one can understand what the debaters are saying in their given amount of time. Everything is said so quickly in such a small amount of time (two minutes) that it is hard to understand the point. Spread, or speed-reading, is a style that is commonly used in high school debates around the country. Watching debate that adheres to this practice will likely bore a mainstream…

Not too long later they were found dead in a stream. They were bruised, mutilated and tied up like hogs. These three boys were Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steve Branch. Three young adults known as, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, were eventually convicted in 1994 for 3 counts of capital murder each but not all of these young men were a part of the killings. They were all convicted based on circumstantial evidence and this made many people angry and led people to…

music genre. To examine the connections and their context, it is suitable to consider four renowned works: Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley; Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin; and The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates.…

After reading the Devil’s Knot written by Mara Leveritt and watching the trial in class and analyzing all the evidence in the case I’m sure a lot will agree with me that in this case the evidence was very poor. The sentence was not justified or supported with enough evidence. In a case with this magnitude in which minors were involved people would think that the jury would take a close look at the evidence and lead the decision from there which in my opinion did not happen. Most people were…

this desperate need to be put back together again.” This quote came from none other than Damien Echols, the so called “ringleader” of the Worldwide group of teens known as The West Memphis Three. The West Memphis Three were three teenages: Jason Baldwin, Damian Echols, and Jessie Misskelley. These three teens were accused of murdering three little boys along the bank of a creek. The West Memphis Three and Sacco and Vanzetti are two different crimes of murder. Sacco and Vanzetti were…

Do you believe that fear can control people’s minds, making them oblivious to what they know is right? Whether it is through religion, sexuality, or politics, people today are still allowing fear to control their lives.The West Memphis Three case encompasses three male teenagers implicated of murdering three third grade boys. The citizens of West Memphis, Arkansas were blinded by their fear of the boys; as a result of these fears the teenagers were wrongfully convicted. The Crucible by Arthur…

who do not see this as an issue, that whoever states these claims are just victimizing themselves; which is not true. To infer in the article double edge words from The Economist it states “On the other hand, two sociologists, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, argued in a paper published in 2014 that a “culture of victimhood” is replacing the “culture of dignity”. Harvard is currently seeking to rename the faculty members who oversee student halls because their traditional title—“house…

“The black man leaves the racist South for New York City, but his encounters continue to disgust him.” Running away from situations is not always the best solution. The approach on the things people are faced with have an effect on how they live. In Jason Puskar’s article he notes, "It was better to live out one 's own absurdity than to die for that of others.” (racism is absurd)In his book, Ellison suggests that joking is a survival strategy in society. Instead of being serious with every…