Murder

In the criminal justice law, first degree murder is the most serious charge someone could face. First degree murder is when a person plans, thinks and executes a murder. For example, Emily gets out of school earlier, goes straight to her boyfriend's house and happens to find her best friend in a sexual relation with her boyfriend. Emily a week later invites her best friend to a picnic next to the ocean. Emily’s best friends takes her car when getting there Emily shoots her best friend in the…

Hi everyone! I am here today to talk to you about the crime First Degree Murder. The Queensland Criminal Code Act of 1899 in section 302 defines First Degree Murder as: a) If the offender intends to cause the death of the person killed or that of some other person or if the offender intends to do to the person killed or to some other person some grievous bodily harm. For First degree murder, it has the highest murder charge. If convicted, the correlating penalizations associated with the…

Trifles revolves around the haunting and evocative conception of murder in the everyday society that we as humans have implemented. The hot button debate over the justification of murder has been a question left unanswered for years and has left people wondering the plausibility of this heinous act. The act of murder is a complex and convoluted argument and when looked at it from both sides of the spectrum, the limelight of whether murder can have any justification seems to become quite obvious.…

The Hall-Mills Murder “‘Not Guilty’ is verdict in hall case: plan to free prisoners on ball today and probably quash all other charges” (New York Times). The Hall-Mills case was a case in 1922 about the murder of an Episcopal priest and a member of his choir, who he was having an affair with at the time. They were murder on September 14, 1922, in Brunswick, New Jersey. The first people to be suspected of committing the murder was the priest’s wife and her brothers. But with lack of evidence they…

be linked to mass murders. According to this article, mass murders are usually lonely White males in there 30’s or 40’s that are single, separated or divorced. These men, according to the article, have a history of frustration, a target, and/or are mentally ill. Other traits of a mass murder can also include, coming from a dysfunctional family and an absent father. In mass murders, there is almost always a motive. I believe that the most important traits to explain mass murder is being a…

Murder has been going on for centuries across the United States ranging from voluntary and involuntary manslaughter to first and second-degree murder. While some killings may be intentional, and others may be accidents, people are constantly attempting to explain why murder occurs by using theories. According to Merriam Webster online dictionary, a theory is “a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action.” There are many theories that can be used in an attempt to…

LYSIAS I.22-27: MAKING A MURDERER JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE WORD COUNT (QUOTED GREEK TEXT IN FOOTNOTES): 1,078. The pivotal murder scene of Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes, described in 1.22-27, is one of the most carefully constructed passages in the speech. Andrew Wolpert praised it in 2001 as a “rhetorical masterpiece in self-fashioning”. Euphiletos, the speech giver, defends himself against the charge of murdering Eratosthenes by arguing that it was a justifiable homicide; according to…

Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary film directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The subject of the film is the Brenton Butler case, a criminal case in which a fifteen-year-old boy was wrongfully accused of murder. It was released on September 14, 2001 (United States) and February 26, 2003. (France) Murder on a Sunday Morning was the brainchild of the french director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, and it received critical acclaim upon its release as the film won the Academy Award for Best…

Welcome back to our list of the most ridiculous murders of all time. Or at least the most ridiculous murders in recent history. We covered half of them in part one, but they get even stranger here in part two. Read below for more. Number Five: The Murder of Sandra Neace Stanley Neace was recognized for having a terrible anger problem, as alleged by his own landlord. In fact, it was his anger problem which led the landlord to being the process of evicting Stanley. But before Stanley could be…

Poe’s short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” places several ideas in juxtaposition with each other in order to make a point. The beginning commentary about several board games and the mental faculties they require, according to narrator, sets the stage for the following murder mystery narrative in the short story. By doing so, Poe is using two seemingly unrelated topics, which could be seen as quite crass in being compared to each other, in order to draw distinctions between several…