Moors murders

I will argue that Utilitarianism will never be seen as the correct moral philosophy and with good reason. Throughout this paper, I will be talking about the Trolley Problem developed by British philosophy Philippa Foot in 1967. This problem, in its simplest form, is deciding whether it is more morally correct to passively kill five people or actively kill one person. For the purposes of my depiction of it, the notion of actively versus passively killing someone will not be relevant for the…

The Central Park Five: Background and Bias The 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, revisits the 1989 Central Park jogger case. Five teenagers were coerced into confessing to a rape of which they were innocent, which was not discovered until over ten years later. The filmmakers and producers of this film are Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. Ken Burns, who has directed or co-directed 27 films, is often named the best-known documentary filmmaker in America.…

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a book written by Bryan Stevenson, which mainly focuses on his work and that of his clients. Bryan Stevenson points out problems and corruption all over the justice system, ranging from false convictions to racial profiling. He shows what injustice the criminal justice system does to people wrongfully committed and shows how law enforcement is corrupt and how this leads to the killing of innocents. While it’s hard to know how many total innocent…

The article “The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” by Gino Del Guercio is an attempt to explain the phenomenon of zombies appearing in Haiti. Guercio begins his article by describing one case of the suspected zombies where a woman named Angelina Narcisse was approached by her brother, Clairvius, who was thought to be dead for eighteen years, and how he used childhood memories to prove that he was actually her brother. Guercio then continues the account with Clairvius giving a detailed account of…

(unless you had a death wish). As seen in The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry, the press encouraged women to murder by glorifying crimes to fabricate sales. Perry’s book focuses on the achievements of an inexperienced news reporter, who faces sexism in her field of work. What seems like an enticing story about murder turns into a monotonous history textbook. During Maurine Watkins’ fight to reveal the truth of heinous crimes in Murder City, the stories of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan…

In society, people love to see television shows about “Law and Order”, “CSI”, or anything that will show murderers being put away. The nation is now fascinated with serial killers, mass murders, and other dramatized criminal cases. Honestly, society does not realize that the shows are realistic fiction. They are fake, though based off real events. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Jack the Ripper are now household names because…

questioned serial killers throughout history, it seems that no two people share the same character traits. Many people have common confusion as to what categorizes someone as serial killer, rather than a murderer. A serial killer is someone who murders multiple people one at a time, not to be confused with a mass murderer which is someone who kills multiple people…

“Death” An eye for an eye, the ending of a life. The death penalty by definition is a capital punishment, signifying the profound conduct for committing heinous crimes. In the United States there is a significant divide between the states regarding the legalization of the death penalty. The main argument presented when speaking of the death penalty is the question of whether the act itself remains constitutional. On average thirty lives have been ended by this complex process per year. The…

introduction Durkheim wrote an enduring volume called Suicide: The study of sociology 1897. In this volume, he divided suicide into four groups Egotistic, Altruistic, Anomic and Fatalistic. In this essay, I will be discussing Durkheim categories of suicide and provide examples. Emile Durkheim (1859-1917) was born in France and became a sociologist he was also one of the founders of modern sociology, his main interest was in religion he taught philosophy in the University of Bordeaux he was…

penalty, or capital punishment, as it is more formally known, is the government sanctioned execution of an individual who has been convicted of crime. The crimes which are punishable under the death penalty are the most serious in nature, and include; murder, treason,…