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analyzing the impact of race and mental health in the criminal justice system and how the combination of those can cause the court to become, at least partially, biased. I. Colin Ferguson was charged and convicted of 6 counts of murder and 19 counts of attempted murder after he was captured for shooting passengers on a Long Island Rail Road train on December 7th, 1993. Colin Ferguson, 36 at the time, was a well-educated, middle-class Jamaican immigrant. After immigrating to the U.S, he…

a neurobiological disorder on the higher-functioning end of the autism spectrum. In Mark Haddon’s British novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old child with this disorder, tries to solve the murder of his neighbor’s dog, Wellington. Along the way, he overcomes multiple obstacles Asperger’s provides him. I am clearly unlike Christopher for various reasons. Christopher and I differ in affection, parents, and coping mechanisms. Readers will…

Two very similar, yet very different readings of two everyday working men with a scheme to put their profession over the top. “The Best Place” by A. F. Oreshnik is a story about a doctor who hypnotizes his criminal patients in order to steal their money and live the life he wants to. “The Alchemist’s Secret” by Arthur Gordon is a story about an alchemist that creates a poison for people who are looking to kill someone. The main characters in both stories are the average everyday people, with a…

Capote’s “In Cold Blood” follows a 1959 massacre of a beloved family of four that took place in the remote town of Holcomb, Kansas . They were viciously murdered via a shotgun and knife by two men, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. As the book follows the murder case, we see sides of the killer that, given the circumstances, seem impossible. Capote makes it almost impossible for us to view Perry Smith as what he actually was (a cold-blooded murderer) in this famous novel as he spends most of his…

penalty are in the “The Code of Hammurabi” where of the 282 laws being written, 25 of them were punishable by death. On April 30th, 1790, the United States Congress establishes a federal death penalty, allowing judges to convict murderers to death for murder, also it allowed judges to convict them to surgical dissection after their execution. Even though the death penalty was very popular in the United States, like always there will be people against it. (ProCon, par 1-6) This is because many…

Horrific crimes are committed across the United States every year and deciding on the correct punishment can be difficult. There are no perfect guidelines for how to lawfully punish someone and this is where the conflict of capital punishment, otherwise referred to as the death penalty arises. Capital punishment is a government-sanctioned practice where a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime (Capital Punishment). If there are humans on Earth there surely will be people…

Frozen Blooded Murder Insanity is defined as being in the state of mental illness, madness, or lacking the ability to fully understand right from wrong. When used in the courtroom, many defendants and criminals plead not guilty by reason of insanity, which is often misused, making it hard to differentiate the truly innocent ones, and the real criminals. Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a great representation of the insanity plea. The main character Mary Maloney kills her…

Anna Garcia had an autopsy performed by Dr. King on August 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM. She was a 38 year-old female Hispanic who weighed 165 pounds and was 64 inches tall at the time of the autopsy. Anna Garcia’s autopsy is due to her sudden and unexpected death. Suspects for her death are Alex Garcia, Doug Greene, Erica Piedmont, and Lucy Leffingwell. The evidence at the crime scene has been analyzed and the findings were reported. Fingerprints found at the crime scene were found to be Alex’s. A…

The novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote details the investigation of the seemingly motiveless murders of a small farming town family, the Clutters. In the book, the tone of the writing creates a feeling of emotionless fatalism, emphasizing overall the unfairness of life, as can be seen throughout the novel, especially after the murder of the Clutter family. A fatalistic tone is expressed mainly in the dialogue of the murderous characters Dick and Perry. The unfairness of life is shown through…

Holcomb,” approaching the Clutter property, the chapter ends and the next time Dick and Perry are mentioned they are “Far off, in the town of Olathe,”(57, 72). Capote completely skips over the murder of the Clutters and fills it with other character’s and their reactions to the murder. Now Capote has the actual murder as fuel to keep the reader wondering and engaged. The structure of In Cold Blood allows Capote to paint over details with other anecdotes he has gathered and leave the reader none…