A Second Degree Murderer Asks for Mercy
Criminal event
Criminal event
A second-degree murderer asks for leniency
Nanxi Wang
100160530
Crim 1125, Introduction to Criminology
Cathy Huth
Due date: April 3, 2013
A second-degree murderer asks for leniency
Ninderjit Singh, a man who executed his ex-girlfriend in 1999, asked the judge for leniency last week in B.C. Supreme Court (Burgmann, 2013). Singh has been hidden in U.S. for 14 years, and he was 21 years old back then. He fled the same day to California, where he grew a bushy beard, gained weight and lived under an alias until police hunted him down in August 2011, just before he was to apparently get an operation to alter his fingerprints (Burgmann, 2013). Not only that, Singh’s family did not feel shame of what he did to a innocent girl, but also “the family of killer Ninderjit Singh gave him $150,000 for false ID, raised cash for surgery to change his fingerprints and lied to police about his whereabouts for more than 12 years” (Bolan, 2013, para. 1). His family is definitely not using a right judgment and method to deal with the case. They only considered how to protect their son from getting hurt by the law, but forgot to think about the mistake Singh made to ruin the other family and the girl’s entire future. This case can be applied by the power control theory because Singh had a low self- control and broken the social bonds that caused him to have criminal behavior. In early control theory speculated that low self- control was a product of weak self-esteem (Siegel & McCormick, 2012). Singh was jealous and controlling over his ex-girlfriend. He had another girlfriend when he was with the victim, Poonam Tandhawa, but when he heard the rumor that she had been unfaithful to him, and then he was out of control. Singh went to threated the victim and ask her to tell the truth. The last few words she had was that, I am not scared of you, go ahead, and shoot me (Woodward, 2013). Siegel cheated on Tandhawa first because he did not want
Criminal event
A second-degree murderer asks for leniency
Nanxi Wang
100160530
Crim 1125, Introduction to Criminology
Cathy Huth
Due date: April 3, 2013
A second-degree murderer asks for leniency
Ninderjit Singh, a man who executed his ex-girlfriend in 1999, asked the judge for leniency last week in B.C. Supreme Court (Burgmann, 2013). Singh has been hidden in U.S. for 14 years, and he was 21 years old back then. He fled the same day to California, where he grew a bushy beard, gained weight and lived under an alias until police hunted him down in August 2011, just before he was to apparently get an operation to alter his fingerprints (Burgmann, 2013). Not only that, Singh’s family did not feel shame of what he did to a innocent girl, but also “the family of killer Ninderjit Singh gave him $150,000 for false ID, raised cash for surgery to change his fingerprints and lied to police about his whereabouts for more than 12 years” (Bolan, 2013, para. 1). His family is definitely not using a right judgment and method to deal with the case. They only considered how to protect their son from getting hurt by the law, but forgot to think about the mistake Singh made to ruin the other family and the girl’s entire future. This case can be applied by the power control theory because Singh had a low self- control and broken the social bonds that caused him to have criminal behavior. In early control theory speculated that low self- control was a product of weak self-esteem (Siegel & McCormick, 2012). Singh was jealous and controlling over his ex-girlfriend. He had another girlfriend when he was with the victim, Poonam Tandhawa, but when he heard the rumor that she had been unfaithful to him, and then he was out of control. Singh went to threated the victim and ask her to tell the truth. The last few words she had was that, I am not scared of you, go ahead, and shoot me (Woodward, 2013). Siegel cheated on Tandhawa first because he did not want