Another article I would like to discuss is from People magazine written by Jeff Truesdell, Neighbors of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery Speak Out About His Guilt or Innocence: 'Those of Us Who Live Here Know He's Guilty.’ In this article, Jeff Truesdell interviewed locals of Manitowoc County; Steven Avery’s neighbors. The neighbors paint an incredibly different picture than what is provided in Making a Murderer. The neighbors discuss how much safer they felt now that Steven Avery was back in jail, and how when he was released the first time they believed something strange happened. The general consensus of his neighbors was that he was guilty for the assault he was in jail for originally, and for the crimes he is in jail for now. One neighbor…
nother utilitarian consideration that Allen makes is “the significance of capital punishment for the sense of justice of the secondary victims of homicides”. With this consideration Allen is referring to the family and friends of the deceased. As an example, an important aspect of…
According to the author the modern executioner's job has changed, likewise, the death penalty has also changed. Jeffrey Toobin suggests killing prisoners who are on death row is necessitated but harm should not be caused. The author believes that the death penalty is uncivilized in our civilized society. Toobin also affirms the fact that the death penalty has become unpalatable and gruesome because of the great length's states have gone to come up with other ways of execution. For…
Edward I. Koch, long active in Democratic politics, was mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989. “Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life” first appeared in the New Republic in 1985, while he was still mayor. The audience of the essay is the people of New York, readers of the New Republic, and anyone who is interested in learning more about capital punishment. In his essay, Koch explains the reasons why he supports capital punishment by examining seven arguments most often heard in opposition. Koch’s third of the seven arguments he made was toward the statement, “An innocent person might be executed by mistake” (485). He argues that without the death penalty, a murderer could be freed from prison and will continue to kill after they…
Caplan, the author of this article is the truman capote visiting lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is also the author of many books including The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law. Caplan, is definitely a credible author with these accomplishments in his field. In his article he goes into detail on the argument to end the death penalty. The argument that is, “ the death penalty now fails to satisfy any legitimate penological purpose.” These points will be used in my paper by using the argument and explaining how the argument has a purpose.…
The purpose of Allan Hall’s article, ‘I See a Killer Die’, is to inform readers about one of the many convicts who have died from capital punishment in America. Hall wrote about a man, Robert Harris, who killed two innocent boys; he used a shotgun to ‘blast to death’ two teenage boys in a robbery. Harris did not show any remorse after the murders.…
What does one gain from murdering a family? Capote wrote, “Then I aimed my gun. The room just exploded. Went blue. Just blazed up” (244). In Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” four shots to four heads occurred in the Clutter home in the isolated city of Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959. The main characters are the Clutter family, and two men named Dick and Perry. Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood” illustrates the murder of a family and the case to capture the suspects, how mental illness/psychological states control the actions of individuals, the objective yet soothing style of his writing, and an implication on how Capote views the deaths and the death penalty.…
Throughout the links of time, there have been various opinions about how the world strategizes the works of execution. The act of execution is known to be inhumane, whether it is justified as right or wrong. There are many cases of crime that have taken on the option of capital punishment. One case in particular is the Clutter family case which is deeply stretched and analyzed in Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood. The novel is known as a masterpiece concealed with agonizing horror and cruelty that has crept upon a rustic community.…
Cold cases are very interesting cases. Cold cases are also known as unsolved cases. Crimes that have been unsolved for many years is devastating to the families left behind. Especially, since many cases are left open for many years families are left with the question “ Is he still alive? Is she being held somewhere against her will? Will she ever return home?” The Mcstay family murders and the disappearance of Natalee Holloway are examples of cases yet to be solved.…
In The Ultimate Punishment, Van Den Haag talks about the death penalty in the United States and takes the stance that it is morally justifiable and sometimes needs to be a punishment that is used to gain retribution. He states, “It ends the existence of those punished, instead of temporarily imprisoning them.” A murderer has taken away the lives of other people, as well as punishing the family members indirectly causing them pain. Therefore not only is this retribution to the person who was killed, but also to the people that the victim was survived by.…
Although capital punishment might bring closure to the family and loved ones of victims, who is to bring closure to family of the accused? Taking someone’s life can mean leaving a child fatherless or motherless, it can mean leaving a loving mother sonless or daughterless. There is no real humane way of viewing the…
In his essay, the author includes seven main arguments opposing capital punishment and refutes them. People may find that the death penalty is a barbaric act and Koch argues this point by suggesting that the method of lethal injection is actually quite humane and literally painless. He also argues that although no other democratic country imposes the death penalty as a form of punishment, no other country boasts a murder rate as high as the United States. The author contends with those who believe capital punishment diminishes life’s value by suggesting the contrary. He has found those who are sentenced to death have been judged fairly and with a great deal of examination. Koch then refutes the argument of capital punishment as a state-sanctioned murder by acknowledging that the state holds much different rights and responsibilities than the individual.…
Murder often makes a persons blood boil and ask the question, “How can someone do that to someone else?” Most of time when a gruesome act of violence happens people wonder, “What kind of human being does it take to do something like that?” Truman Capote’s book, In Cold Blood, is about such an act of violence; a murder that, when the reader walks away, only registers a banal. The killing of the Clutter family, which happened in 1959 in the town of Holcomb, Kansas, blew most people away with its senselessness and horror. Capote, however, writes the story with personal background on the killers, making them human and giving the reader, something most people do not get to hear or even care to know, a reason to the mindless murders. Evil is easily banalized when there is a story to go along with it.…
The Ride is the story of the heinous and gruesome murder of ten year old, Jeffrey Curley, a case that is familiar to many in the Massachusetts area. The book works its way from the grisly crime to the years afterward. It focuses on the family of Jeffrey, heavily weighted on the life of Cambridge Firefighter Bob Curley, Jeffrey’s father. Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari, both from Jeffrey’s neighborhood were convicted of the murder. Within this essay I will demonstrate from The Ride the relationship between reporting and suffering that may have been brought on for the crime victims of this case, the relationship between the victim profiles and the victim family profiles, the role in which the family may have played in the crime, relationships that developed between the victim and the victim’s families of this event and how the Restorative Justice Model would have better served the victims of this crime.…
Considering the death penalty is difficult for many people to do but would one consider it if it was their family that was victimized? Capital punishment has been a way to punish people for ages, and many countries still use this form of punishment on some of the worse criminals. Some of the main arguments for capital punishment include: keeping criminals off the street, reducing the crime rate, cost reduction for taxpaying citizens, and one of the most important closer for the family. One of the main reasons that people object to the death penalty in because of the fear that the wrong person could be convicted and put to death. Even though an innocent person could be wrongfully convicted, certain criminals should face the death penalty because it ensures the murderer can commit no more crime in the future and it installs fear in other potential criminals.…