2) She rented a car and drove from Redding, CA to Arizona with cans of gas in her car so she wouldn't leave a trail coming to Arizona.…
A Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, Jesse Perez, was recently awarded $25,000 in damages in reference to a case filed against correctional officers that were accused of acting in violation of the prisoner’s First Amendment rights. Perez was identified by officers at another prison as a member of the Mexican Mafia. After he was identified in 2005, Perez was transferred to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit. The lawsuit was filed against the officers who claimed they identified him as a member of the Mexican Mafia. Perez claims that their determination and decision to reassign him was a violation of his rights by way of the constitution.…
The Snowtown murders, otherwise called the Bodies in Barrels killings, were the homicides of 12 individuals in South Australia, Australia between August 1992 and May 1999. The wrongdoings were revealed when the remaining parts of eight casualties were found in barrels of corrosive situated in a leased previous bank working in Snowtown, South Australia on 20 May 1999. The town of Snowtown is in the Mid North of South Australia, 145 km north of Adelaide. Despite the fact that Snowtown is every now and again connected with the wrongdoings, the bodies had been held in a progression of areas around Adelaide for quite a while, and were moved to Snowtown in mid 1999, late in the wrongdoing spree that had traversed quite a long while. Stand out casualty…
The case, of which I choose to present, is that of Emmet Till. In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till had gone on vacation from Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. He was shopping at a store owned which was owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant and someone said that Emmett Till whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman. At some point around August 28, Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His body was soon recovered, and an investigation was opened. It took less than four weeks for the case to go to trial; Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were accused of the murder of which an all-white, all male…
The arguments for the death penalty consists of Americans feeling a strong sense of justice that demands retribution for heinous crimes, or ‘a life for a life’. The death penalty shows that society doesn’t excuse the taking of innocent lives and that a jail sentence for murder wouldn’t be suffice for the life of an innocent victim. Arguments against the death penalty involve people who believe it is applied unequally, because a large proportion of those executed have been poor, uneducated, and nonwhite. My outlook on it is that I’m in-between the death penalty, yes I understand that a murder should be able to live on this Earth, but having to kill by something like legal injection is an unusual…
My view upon death penalty before watching the video about Darryl hunt’s case, was strongly against it. I truly believe that we have no say in who is to take someone’s life. Who are we to decide who lives or dies? There is no standard that we can place on someone’s life, to determine their existence in this world. Life is a precious gift, no matter how cruel the crime may be that the person being accused of committing the crime. I strongly believe that incarceration for the reminder of their life is in my view, the most extreme decision as a society to make in determining an individuals future.…
I am writing to express my concern of the injustice of Trayvon Martin and would like to appeal about the decision of the jury after acquitting the neighborhood watch (George Zimmerman) who murdered an unarmed teenager after claiming it was an act of defense, but I will argue against this and prove that this was a murder case and not an act of self defense.…
In the article written by Patricia Hill Collins entitled “On Lynchings,” Collins describes the life of Ida B Wells through theoretical frameworks such as Black intellectual production and Black Feminist Thought. Collins situates Wells’ lived experience as a catalyst for her activism. “Ida Wells-Barnett’s voice in these essays grows from lived experience with Black people, and not simply from theorizing about them.” (182 Collins) Wells’ intellectual and political work, as told by Collins, involved the development of African American communities through a “racial uplift.” (176 Collins) Though Collins work focuses on Wells political achievement, at the same time, Collins expresses how narratives are silenced throughout the retelling of history especially the work from Black intellectuals in particular Wells.…
This paper reflects on two crisis situations, The 1972 Olympic Terrorist attack in Munich, Germany, and The Attica Prison Riot of 1971. This paper will discuss what went wrong on behalf of the negotiators and how things could’ve of different with a properly trained crisis negotiation team. The ongoing crisis staging in prisons and at local police departments makes it possible for a crisis team to have well thought out plans to prevent fatalities including suicides and hostage killings. There are various tactics, such as active listening skills used by negotiators to hopefully reason with hostage takers and get them to surrender. In The…
Hello there, I’m Dred Scott. an African American slave.! I’m tired of it… But no need to be sad, I have a Great story to tell you!…
“Jesse James” is a biography written about the old western legend known as none other than the American Outlaw Jesse James. This biography was written by T.J. Stiles, who is an award-winning American Biographer. The biography dives into the life of the American Outlaw and reassessed his life focusing on more along the lines of his personal life and the historical role he played, rather than his superstar status as a rebel. Stiles in the biography mentions James as more of a family avenger than a robin hood. “All the things that happened to him on his family’s farms lead him unto the life of crime” and Stiles opens that up for us in ways we haven’t seen before. This book received multiple awards for the thoroughness…
When the Left wants to distract America from the central point of a burning issue, they find (or manufacture) a "gotcha" moment and yell "RACISM!" So it is no surprise that embattled Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, whose struggle against the federal government's overreach has won widespread sympathy, has ended up as another victim of "race card" politics.…
Hey you think Dylan’s and Eric’s parents go in jail for what the kids did? The columbine shooting happened at the high school where they all went to school. The parents of the two boys should go to jail because they did nothing to stop them.…
The Attica prison revolt had many conditions that would cause many of the inmates to have a riot. The condition in which these inmates lived was horrible. I know when a person commit a crime they are punished for the crime. This was very cruel of how these inmates were treated. The uniforms did not fit the inmates well. The meals were not pleasant and baths were giving once a week. These inmates had to pay for their toilet items and the state clothing and these items were brought from the commissary. They weren’t making enough money and would often hustle. When the riot happened the inmates were able to move about the facility because of the gate not working. They saw this as a chance to get even with the correctional officers. They probably…
The feelings of some one who knows that he will not be alive, say, a month from now, not because he is terminally ill, but because he will be killed by the state!.…