Life imprisonment

Lane addressed the victims’ families and the courtroom by saying, “This hand that pulled the trigger that killed your sons now masturbates to the memory. Fuck all of you,” while giving the middle finger. Lane was tried as an adult and was given three life sentences. In 2014, he escaped the prison he was in but was recaptured the following day. There are similarities to both Spencer’s and Lane’s cases; both were adolescents, both were school shooters and both did not have solid motives for their…

to forty years in prison and a one hundred thousand dollars fine, if you are intoxicated and you kill someone while driving. Many people question wonder why this law doesn’t have the same punishment as homicide crime, getting life in prison and forty years in prison can be life changing. I don’t think the forty-year punishment solves the problem at all. People can live long enough to get out of prison and kill two people while they drink and drive. I understand that if you are drunk and you…

Bryan Stevenson’s novel, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, focuses on the narrative of one of his first cases as a young lawyer. He shares the story of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit. Stevenson’s primary objective with this novel is to draw attention to broken criminal justice system. The utilization of a primarily logos argument can only be justified if their is equality within the given system. However, when issues such as…

Criminal Justice Frontline’s video, “Second Chance Kids,” takes its viewers through a controversial topic: life in prison for those who committed crimes as teens. Before the mid 2000s, teenagers who murdered someone get sentenced to life without parole. The arguments that teenagers grow up and change convinced courts to reconsider giving parole to those who were convicted for their crimes made as a teen. In one case, Anthony Rolon was 17 years old when he committed a crime. He was helping his…

stranger, would it make any difference? 4. Should the police arrest the chemist for murder if the woman died? First interviewer: Tatum, girl age 9. Level – Pre-conventional morality 1. He shouldn’t have, but then again he could have done it to save her life. 2. It would change a lot, he wouldn’t have broken in into the chemist and he would have his wife died. 3. It would make a difference, he would probably not broken into the…

and make them rethink that option so they won't have to die in prison also. “Last month in Sacramento, a fifteen-year-old Yuba City youth who reportedly claimed he was mimicking a TV program about little girls who rob a bank was given a 26-years-to-life prison term. Tried as an adult, Thomas A. Preciado was fourteen when he stabbed to death a mini mart clerk.” (Marie Lundstrom, 2001,…

what drove him to kill his teacher, even years later. To put it another way, teenagers convicted of murder should be given a second chance to make something of their lives as adults. One mistake should not destroy the potential future of someone’s life before it even…

Overview Troy James Knapp slowly withdrew from life in the modern world, feeling the call of the woods drawing him in. Long weekends out in the wild grew in length as the ant like human behaviour of the cities became a bitter taste to avoid in the background of a life that had slowly turned sour. The purity of the wild became the bedrock and foundation of the next six years of Troy’s life as he committed himself to a full time life in the wild. Life in the wild is tough especially in the…

Wrongful Conviction On the morning of August 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was brutally stabbed, sexually assaulted, and eventually killed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The man convicted for her murder was Darryl Hunt, a 19 year old boy that would go on to spend 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Hunt was convicted based on eye-witness testimony and informants, but was later exonerated based on DNA evidence that matched a man that was caught just a few months after the murder took…

later years of their life. This…