Defending Adnan Syed to the Judge and Jury Adnan Syed‚ the main character in Serial‚ has wrongfully spent the majority of his adult life in prison. He was accused of murdering Hae-Min Lee‚ his ex-girlfriend‚ in the first degree after her body was found February 9th‚ 1999‚ buried in Leakin Park. Witnesses and friends have provided authorities with varying stories on the matter‚ but authorities have yet to confirm or deny Adnan’s innocence… until now. Adnan did not commit the murder‚ and here’s why
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The criminal investigation process is a complex aspect of the legal system that has had mixed levels of success in achieving justice lawfully‚ justly and in the accordance with the rights of the victims‚ accused and society. The criminal investigation process encapsulates the powers of police to; search and seize (e.g. drug detection dogs); arrest (including the use of tasers); use of technology (DNA evidence); and entails the rights of suspects‚ such as bail and remand and the right to counsel during
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Picture it like this‚ having a stranger stare for an extended period of time can be uncomfortable and hostile‚ right? Government surveillance is no different‚ except this is coming from the government. Ever since the terrorist attacks of 9/11‚ the government alongside with the NSA (National Security Agency) have had a watchful eye on U.S. citizens. A watchful eye being surveillance cameras‚ collecting internet metadata‚ phone calls‚ messages and GPS systems. The government claims that the collection
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The Demise Of The Death Penalty Mandy Szwedko Western Governors University WGU Student ID # 000383758 Thesis Statement: Research suggests that capital punishment should be abolished to obviate mishandled executions‚ prevent wrongfully convicted citizens from being put to death and to lower taxpayer dollars for incurred expenses for inmates on death row. Annotated Bibliography Capital punishment‚ known as the death penalty is punishment by death and is reserved for the most heinous of
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" To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge‚ not justice" ( qtd. in Anti-Death Penalty). Capital punishment‚ or the death penalty‚ has been around in some sort of variation for centuries. It is enforced upon criminals who have been convicted of the most heinous crimes‚ such as homicide. There have been debates throughout time as whether or not the death penalty is appropriate punishment. Valid arguments of support and contradiction of capital punishment have come up over time‚ making
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result of careless appeals but instead the result of constitutionally mandated safeguards (www.deathpenalty.org). Even with the careless appeals and mandated safeguards were having to take a closer look into convicted felons’ cases and by doing so we have saved a large number of wrongfully convicted people. Capital punishment‚ the death penalty‚ is a highly controversial method used in punishing people who kill another human being. It has raised difficult moral‚ practical‚ and legal issues. The debate
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legalized this punishment while others do not agree and sentence defendants to life in prison instead. Capital punishment‚ or the death penalty is a legal sentence to die for criminal behavior. It varies from state to state how the execution of the convicted criminal is carried out. Just like every controversial issue there is always two viewpoints. The first is that law enforcement and juries make errors and capital punishment cannot be reversed. The second is that certain crimes are so heinous that
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The twentieth century mark a huge milestone for the Civil RIghts Movement. New laws were being implemented to have voting rights as well as prohibit discrimination against race and gender in the work force. Integration was now enforced‚ opening more opportunities to African-Americans. Evolution of race relations changed drastically during 1914-1965‚ whether it be beneficial or not. The relations were evidently changing economically‚ politically‚ and most notably: socially. Birmingham‚ Alabama‚
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One of those is that the death penalty saves innocent lives by preventing convicted murderers from killing again. Some sense of the risk here is the fact that of roughly 52‚000 state prison inmates serving time for murder‚ an estimate 810 had previously been convicted of murder and had killed 821 persons following those convictions. Executing each of these inmates after the first murder conviction would have saved the
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Suzan Oyewale Salvia College Writing 11 9 December 2011 You kill‚ you should be killed! Brutally murdered by a man no one would have suspected‚ an innocent twelve-year old girl was taken from her mother. Although‚ this poor girl ’s mother was stricken with grief and anger‚ she did not wish for this murderer to die for her own sake‚ but to protect other innocent girls like her own. She sat and watched‚ staring into the eyes of the man who had killed her daughter. She watched as they inserted
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