Life imprisonment

A hero in society is somebody that is admired by others, has a positive outlook on life, and people look up to them because of how good they are. A tragic hero is someone who has their life planned out for them. They have been handed an amazing opportunity that either they take and go far with, or they destroy their chances of ever becoming good again. Aaron Hernandez used to be a tight-end for the New England Patriots. He was a huge part of the team and their winning season. Aaron Hernandez…

issue and debated for years. It is a system set up for juveniles that commit crimes. Life without parole is a controversial topic. Life without parole is given to juveniles that have had a non-homicide case. It also has been given to homicide Cases from six years old to eighteen years olds. Life without parole makes it to where juveniles will never be able to be free and will remain in prison until their death. Life without parole for juveniles has been in law for several years now and may…

in her extensive experience in the study of brains and its various functions. In some cases many teens or children may learn their lesson due to experiencing the solidarity that juvenile hall offers and strive to avoid going back and improving their life for the…

Often times, minimal exercise for elephants can result in death, or a life span shortened a quarter of a century on average (CITE LCA). As stated in an article by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), zoos are working to add a few extra square feet to the elephants exhibits, however, the additional square does not compete the magnitude of square miles they need (CITE PETA). Elephants in captivity experience many life threatening situations other than the lack of exercise that is…

assailant and Graham, the two youths ran out and escaped in a car driven by the third accomplice” (Graham V. Florida). He was tried as an adult as well as life in prison. With that being said, knowing the crime is not okay, but no one was killed. Whereas in Simmons and Millers case people were killed. Graham went to steal and got sentence with life in prison. The 8th amendment requires that the consequence is to fit the crime. As a 16-year-old boy living in the conditions he did it could have…

At the age of seventeen Adnan Syed was arrested for the murder of sixteen-year-old Hae Min Lee. He was considered a prime suspect because he was the ex-boyfriend and that their break up was a motive for Adnan to commit murder. A break up can lead to many things but in Adnan case, his break up didn’t lead him to commit murder. According to Episode 2 of the Serial Podcast Adnan was calling Hae before she went missing but, “Adnan says he was probably calling to give her new cell phone number. He…

105) Wes stared making many mistakes as a young boy and has little chances of going back and fixing his life. Wes never thought of hi failures as a learning situation. Barbara Corcoran asserts “I would have never discovered online if I hadn’t failed with the seventy-seven thousand dollars and that was my reward” in her Ted Talk. I believe that she makes a good point because once you fail in life…

Thomas Moore Thomas Moore was born on January 7, 1915. Thomas was from Kansas City Missouri.He was a murder, he killed his second wife, while she was asleep in bed. Before he got with and married her he was married before.The first wife he married when he was forty years of age. Then he divorced her in the spring of 1954. Then Thomas got married to his second wife on June 26, 1954. Her name was Opal Irene Searcy. Opal had three children from her last marriage. Two weeks before May 5, of 1955…

Life Without Sequence On October 5th, 1984, the body of 15-year-old Kristina Hickey was found raped and stabbed behind a mall in Park Forest, Illinois. She had been missing for two days, having last been seen walking on her way home from choir practice. On January 15, 1987, Christopher Abernathy, who was seventeen at the time the murder was committed, was convicted of Hickey’s murder and sentenced to ‘Life’ in prison without the possibility of parole. Abernathy’s sole accuser was a high-school…

Summary: In the month of October 2015, twenty-two year old, Sabastian Prosa, was sentenced to five years in prison and banned from driving for eight years after killing a daughter and a father in a car crash back in 2012. Being nineteen at the time, Prosa drunkenly drove into oncoming traffic on Highway 427 on the night of August 5, 2012- killing Jayanatha and Eleesha Wijeratne. Prosa had claimed that he might have been drugged while attending a club downtown, which could have caused him to be…