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    defendant’s lawyer attempted plea bargaining with the prosecution due to the excessive evidence against his case and implored Wilson to plead guilty to robbery, breaking and entering, and trespassing in exchange for the prosecution not charging him with murder or assault and battery. However, Wilson was indignant in keeping with his account of the incident and continued to plead not guilty. ARRAIGNMENT After the indictment by the grand jury, Judge Brown recited the formal charges to the…

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    also very costly and is not worth our tax money. The death penalty is a form of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a severe crime, or otherwise known as a capital crime. Some common capital crimes are first degree murder, which is a planned murder; treason, otherwise known…

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    Forensic Sciences: the History, the Advancements, and the Achievements Could you get away with murder? Hundreds of years ago you probably could, but today with all the advancements that have been made in technology and forensic science many of the toughest cases are solved that couldn’t be before. While forensic science might not always be 100% accurate, it has developed a lot since it was first practiced and without using forensic science a lot of crimes would go unsolved. Forensic science…

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    Novel The Stranger, which consists of two parts. The first part of the novel is about a young man named Meursault who lived in French Algeria years after the French Invasion occurred in 1830-1847, and later ending up in prison because he committed murder. While the second part of the novel follows Meursault during his trial and where his fate lies ahead. Throughout the Novel, Meursault’s relationship with Marie demonstrated his dependence on his own physical needs rather than his own emotional…

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    of Life in Shelley’s Frankenstein”, “Victor Frankenstein doesn’t value life in the absolute. Instead, he places a higher worth on his reputation” (174). Dr. Frankenstein actually does not care about Justine’s life. He knows that he is the indirect murder of his brother, but he tries to do nothing to save Justine. As he confesses himself in the novel, “But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of ho hope or consolation” (64). Although Dr. Frankenstein…

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    nationwide in 2012. There are two famous serial killers who differ when it comes to their gender, their types of killing and their motives. The first serial killer is Kristen Gilbert, she is a former nurse who was convicted of three first-degree murders; the second serial killer is Jeffrey Dahmer, he is an American serial killer and sex offender of seventeen men and boys.…

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    Wainwright (1986). A Florida Court sentenced Alvin Ford to death for first degree murder. During the murder, trial, and sentencing, Ford exhibited no indications of mental illness. However, while waiting for his execution, his mental state diminished. The Supreme Court then found that it is cruel and unusual to impose the death penalty on the mentally…

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    Imagine, the news comes on and you hear about the latest gruesome murder, or the one of many rapes that occur daily in the United States. What if you were that person on the T.V. screen, would you want justice for the world crushing, life-altering pain that someone caused you and your family? The death penalty should be made legal in the United States because it allows for justice to be given to those people who have committed vigorous crimes and most importantly, it decreases the chances of…

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    argue these facts all day everyday, even though they are all false. To begin, capital punishment should not be abolished because it actually does deter crimes such as murder. Professors Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University found that on average that each execution resulted in 18 fewer murders. If the only punishment that people would receive for murdering someone would to be locked up in a cell and never have to worry about food, shelter, or health care…

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    trial. He could have life without parole or the death penalty. Which would you want him to have? Theodore Robert Bundy was a serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist of young women and girls throughout the 1970’s. Tedy was connected to at least 36 murders, but some think he committed one hundred or more.[A&E][Bio.com] In Bundys early years as a college student of the Universitly of Washington Bundy had it all. He had the rich girl, the money, the class, and…

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