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    (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…

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    Should juvenile offenders be tried as adults? If a child is a juvenile offender for something real bad such as anything that has to do with murder, yes I believe they deserve to be tried as adults. Most kids who get involved in murders know exactly what they are doing. If the child who is a juvenile offender does something such as stealing, vandalizing, loitering, etc. Those kids should just be tried as juveniles instead of adults. My thoughts on juvenile offenders are being tried as adults is…

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    The 4 Girls

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    resigned from Rosewood High School in Pennsylvania to teach at Hollis College so him and Aria can be together. Hanna first dates Sean Ackard, then has a thing with Lucas Gottesman, and now her bad boy Caleb Rivers. She finds out though that after sleeping with Caleb that Jenna paid him to hang out with her to search for a key. Emily had a boyfriend named Ben Coogan, but came out of the closet when a new girl named Maya St. Germain moved to Rosewood. They started dating and later Maya was sent to…

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    the slaughter written by Roald Dahl is about a pregnant married women named Mary Maloney that with a frozen lamb leg murders her detective husband Patrick Maloney that was cheating on her with another woman. The short story takes place in a small American home around the mid-1950s. ‘’lamb to slaughter’’ shows you should never underestimate females because they are capable of murder just as men are The author reveals the theme through the character, conflict and point of view (narratives…

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    sure that she is the witness of a murder aboard the opulent cruise ship, the Aurora Borealis, but the head of security on the ship, Johan Nilsson, has his doubts. In The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, Lo is on a mission to prove that there was a murder on the ship after she makes out a scream, hears a splash, and sees blood on the window. The head of security does not believe Lo because she had been drinking while taking antidepressants the night of the apparent murder, is struggling to get a…

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    Indians is based on the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. However, there is a great range of differences between the two. In fact, very few things from the book were kept in the movie. From the names of characters to the end of the murder mystery story, many things were changed. In both the novel and the movie, ten guests are invited to a secluded house by a mysterious Mr. U. N. Owen. Between the book and the movie, however, the names, ages, and backstories of certain…

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    family’s normal life and killed them in cold blood. We are confident that ultimately Smith will be sentenced to capital punishment due to his cold blooded and brutal murder of the family, his indifference toward his victims and other human beings, and for being a threat to society. Not only did Smith premeditate the murder of an entire sleeping family, he also pulled the trigger all four times. Initially motivated to steal money from an alleged safe, later Smith one by one blew out the heads of…

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    disorder. Post traumatic stress disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. Lady Macbeth shows symptoms of this disorder because of her mood throughout the play changes. Also because she has trouble sleeping, feeling guilt, and cannot maintain a relationship with her husband. The first obvious symptom of post traumatic stress disorder that Lady Macbeth shows is the way she shows the guilt she feels about the death of the king. In the play it…

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    Scott Peterson Case Study

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    Scott Lee Peterson is a prisoner in California. He is currently on death row convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son. He was convicted of double murder, first-degree and second-degree, in 2004 and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Peterson remains on death row in San Quentin State Prison while his case is on appeal to the Supreme Court of California. On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, was reported missing from her Modesto,…

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    Facts About Teen Killers

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    just any crime though; they are committing first degree murder, second degree murder and manslaughter. What would happen to these teens? The US Supreme Court ruled in 2012, that juveniles could not be sentenced to life in prison without parole if they commit a murder. Reason being if they were put with inmate’s teens could not get out of dangerous situations. A kid is a kid till they commit a crime, and no kid should ever get away with murder. Some teens kill for no reason, some kill for…

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