Life imprisonment

Supreme Court has made a ruling that juveniles who commit murder cannot be given life in prison. Four justices strongly disagree with this ruling, saying how juveniles should always be punished for their crimes from how heinous they are. In my opinion, I believe that juveniles should not receive life in prison under certain circumstances. A family’s background, the brain works, and why these juveniles don’t deserve a life sentence without parole. For a kid like José, he didn’t have a type of…

Was Travis Alexander a violent womanizer or was Jodi Arias a stalker? Was justice served after judge Sherry Stephens declared that Jodi Arias will receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole after 25 years? Jodi Arias is a 37 years old woman who was charged for murdering her 30 years old ex boyfriend Travis Alexander back in 2008, in his Arizona house. Jodi Arias was guilty of premeditated and felony murder since she admitted that she was the one who killed Travis Alexander. Due to…

all a lie. Because Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to a moral life he got a fresh start, planned on getting married, and planned on selling his burglary tools. Jimmy Valentine was dedicated…

Life without Parole for juveniles has always been a touchy subject. Juveniles give up the right of being a child when they take another life. They decided who got to live and who didn't. That isn't the act of innocent child and should not be treated as such. Nobody has the right to kill someone unless it is self defence. That they are too young to understand by locking them up we are taking their second chance away but did the victim get a second chance? No, they did not so why should the…

Donohue (2014) analyzed these five reasons explaining why some are being convicted for capital crimes. Donohue(2014) findings were helped by attorney’s that handled these categories of crime in outgoing cases that used these factors, which determined that race has nothing to do with the conviction. Through the two hundred and five cases they incorporated victims’ pain from the crime, victim’s identity, crimes were planned or had intent and whether there was various victim’s involved in the crime…

The cold case that I chose in which DNA played a crucial role was the Nicholas Yarris Case. The incident in this case took place in Pennsylvania in 1981(Innocence Project, 2016). The victim in this case was a woman that worked at a mall and was abducted after she got off from work (Innocence Project, 2016). She was then raped and murder; her body was left in a parking lot of a church (Innocence Project, 2016). Four days later Nicholas Yarris was stopped by the police for a traffic violation…

While the author of The Other Wes Moore escaped a troubled childhood, a man of the same name and similar experiences ended up in prison. This Wes Moore ended up in prison because his only male role model is Tony, selling drugs, and was involved in a robbery. The first thing that put Wes Moore on the path to prison is his only male role model was his brother, Tony. Tony was a drug dealer and a “certified gangsta.” (27) Although Tony made it his mission “to give his little brother information he…

In the story Life & Death two guys with the similar name meet. When one Wes Moore was known for robbing and killing the other was known for his great accomplishments. Wesley John Moore was a father at 16 and a convicted criminal. Wes had noticed that living the street was not a good thing, so he made a change. On the other hand the other Wes Moore was bad news and was later sent to boot camp and later convicted. While making his life better Wesley John found out through the news and other…

Morton Grove woman 21-year-old Xin Zeng, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. Responders found a newborn baby boy in a plastic bag that had been tied closed with a towel wrapped around it, underneath a pile of towels in the bathroom, Yaras said. Police said Zeng is a college student and lives with her parents, who were out of the country when the baby was born. Zeng is being held in Cook County Jail on $10 million on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. This crime makes a…

One of the best time in one’s life is the teenage years. During this time love is discovered along with the true meaning of friendship. In many cases being a teen can be difficult because everything that is done or said is driven by emotions. Emotions are hard to deal with during those years and they can cause a traumatic changes in life if they are not controlled properly. That is what happened to three particular teenagers who seek to be accepted by their peers, who needed to feel love and…