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    Serial Killers: Ted Bundy

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    preferred victims: young and attractive females. The exact number of victims Bundy murdered may never be known, mostly because of the lack of availability of DNA analysis during that time. Nevertheless, Bundy would ultimately be convicted for the murders of three females…

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    as the final outcome of the case. Aileen Wuornos is known as the first female serial killer in the United States. Wuornos was a prostitute in Florida. Through 1992 and 1993, Wuornos confessed to six murders, and received six death penalties. The killing spree started in November 1989, with the murder of her first victim, fifty-one year old Richard Mallory from Clearwater, Florida. She claimed that he tried to rape her, therefore she killed him out of self-defense. She shot him three times with…

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    mentions that a teenager murdered her pregnant sister and her husband for the "thrill to kill," as Jenkins describes it (Jenkins 91). They will argue that adults dont murder for the "thrill to kill," and that some juveniles do it without targeting anyone specifically. They might not have a reason to why they committed a crime, but they murder because they have the available resources. However, some adults are actually capable of murdering in large amounts with no reason. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the…

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    Mental Illness In Hamlet

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    Aside from the idea of him marrying Gertrude he also was the murder of King Hamlet. Hamlet is aware of this, but Claudius is not aware what Hamlet truly knows. Claudius also knows that Hamlet has been behaving in a strange manner and people will believe that Hamlet is lying (if he were to tell others that Claudius…

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    2007). He was arrested for the murder of his mother, and sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison. There, he tried to kill himself on numerous occasions, and was transferred to a mental hospital. After 10 years at the mental hospital, he was released on parole. Within a few years after being released, he killed his girlfriend and another woman, who had been their landlady When he was later arrested, he suddenly started confessing to hundreds and hundreds of murders (From News Services,…

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    of H.H Holmes. The World’s Fair was also filled with so many people, that it was likely no one would notice if somebody went missing. He killed these people in a building he advertised as the World’s Fair Hotel. It was not a hotel but an intricate murder castle filled with different ways to kill his victims. Holmes was interested in medicine from a very early age and implicated that later in life when he lived in Chicago and ran a drugstore. He was eventually…

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    of Hamlet. We are here today to judge whether or not Hamlet is guilty for the cold-blooded murder of Polonius. Some say that it was an accident, while some say that it was on purpose. Due to this event, there has been much debate concerning the truth behind Hamlet’s (in)sanity. According to the evidence that I have gathered, I hold my position when I pronounce that Hamlet should not be acquitted of this murder due to insanity. To start of this trial, let me ask the audience, what does it mean…

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    Amanda Knox Case

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    “Knox confessed that she was in the house on the night of the murder and that she heard Miss Kercher scream”(Squires 1.) She was tried and acquitted twice, and then there was a movie made about her. Amanda Knox was accused for violently murdering her roommate in Italy in 2007. After years of being tried and acquitted, Amanda was finally released, and is now living freely with no charge. In the 2007 controversial court case of Amanda Knox, the innocent verdict incorrectly acquitted the suspect…

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    Overcrowded Prisons

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    Capital Punishment is where convicted offenders are sentenced to death for the most serious crimes. The offenses and crimes are suitable for the death penalty. These crimes are usually crimes such as murder. Statutes that the Congress prescribes along with any state legislature defines these death sentences. When it comes to Capital Punishment, I agree with having it. The family of the victims gets closure, criminals are shown more sympathy than victims without it, and it contributes to the…

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    The plot behind the musical Chicago is one of the most brilliant and exciting plots in a musical that I have ever seen. The story starts off when Roxie Hart who is a chorus girl performer is out performing and a man named Fred, who is a furniture salesman. Fred and Roxie stumble to Roxie house, where they later have intercourse. After they finished, Roxie kept asking Fred if he would follow up on his offer, which was that he would use a connection that he had with a club owner to get Roxie a…

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