...Revenge can be a healthy way to punish those who have wronged. However, some people can take revenge to the extremes. Ray Bradbury’s “Utterly Perfect Murder” describes Doug, a man in the midsts of an alleged mid-life crisis, who returns to his hometown to seek revenge on his childhood bully. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe depicts a psychotic narrator, Montresor who avenges insults by burying a former friend in the catacombs. While Doug and Montresor have similar motives, their methods and mental states differ. Doug and Montresor murder their assumed friends to seek revenge. Doug kills his childhood companion, Ralph for bullying him in the past. As he recollects childhood memories, he recalls Ralph’s abuse; “[Doug] was covered...
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...Trouble In Paradise Capote, in his book, In Cold Blood, describes the brutal murder of the Clutter family. In order for the reader to have a better understanding of the impact of the murder on the community Capote gives brief, in-depth descriptions of the family. Some descriptions are positive while others reveal the true side of the family, the part most of the townspeople were unaware of. Capote’s descriptions of Mr. and Mrs. Clutter enable the reader to see that the Clutters are not as perfect as they may have seemed to everyone else. This different perspective changes the impact their murder has on us, where we first thought were an innocent, “perfect” family being murdered, they turned out to not be so perfect. At first glance, Mr. Clutter...
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...Since we were child we have been told that murder is one of the worst things that you can do to another human. But then TV shows come to our houses with lots of violence, and tell us that it is ok to kill if you found a justified reason. The perfect example of this is the movie “Hunger Games”, where Katniss have to fight with other 24 persons in order to win the games, and obviously survive. According to the author of the article, Shoshana Kessock, this movie create too many philosophical questions about murder, the most important according to my point of view is: Is murder justified when you do it in order to save your life? And according to the author of the article this movie presents confusing messages about murder to its audience, for...
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...person can still be killed for a crime he/she did not commit. On top of this, it is both highly immoral and costly to execute criminals on death row. For these reasons, the death penalty is unethical and should be discontinued in the United States. The Bible states in multiple places that humans are forbidden to kill other humans. Matthew 5:21 says, "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment"("Shall Not Murder"). The Bible simply states that, as humans, one does not have the right to kill another human. There is no fine print saying whether it is right or wrong to kill someone after one has committed a crime. Humans have just been taking this matter into their own hands. God also states in the Ten Commandments that one shall not murder. In Mark 10:19, Jesus says, "You know the commandments: You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother"("Shall Not Murder"). These commandments are what we are supposed to be using as a guide for our lives in order to help us live a life to the best of our ability. Some might say that because the United States has no state religion that what the Bible has to say is irrelevant. What those people fail to understand is that a large...
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...The Iceman Tapes - Conversations with a Killer Interview conducted under maximum security at Trenton State Prison take a look into the mind of Richard Kuklinski. Unable to support his family and with an eighth grade education, crime became a way to support his family. The number of his total murders is estimated to one hundred victims. Richard Kuklinski doesn’t express or show signs of having a mental illness because killing is merely a sport and a way to support his family. Richard Kuklinski displays signs of a lack of remorse or guilt of his victims and committed murders these characteristics are a better fit of a psychopath. Assistant Attorney General Robert Carroll states that “he is nothing more than a predator on human beings.” His targets...
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...closure. In our criminal justice system, each crime has a punishment that is distributed through the court system. Depending on the state, the punishment may be different. In America, we punish people for a few different reasons: retribution for victims, to rehabilitate the offender, and punish the offender for breaking the community’s standards, to name a few. States with the death penalty may or may not sentence someone to death for crimes other than killing another human being. Personally, I believe murder is the only reason a person should be given the death penalty. Arguments agreeing with my statement mostly state that it isn’t equal punishment, which is what our justice system is trying to achieve. People who rape children should not be sentenced to death, but should be locked away for life without parole. They may have harmed a child in an unspeakable manor, but they did not murder said child. Because rape of a minor is a very touchy subject and most see it as worse than murder, it can be argued that a pedophile rapist should be put to death. An argument that I can see arising is the fact that, while the rapist did not kill the child, they took away that child’s feeling of safety. They took away their life, leaving an intimidated,...
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...The perfect crime is a crime that yields satisfactory results, and at no point has any negative repercussions. The word perfect indicates something that is completely positive, and has nothing wrong with it. One example of the perfect crime would be the the murders of the Zodiac Killer; he claimed to have killed 37 people, and sent letters to newspapers and police taunting them, but he was never found. He got away with all of his acts unscathed. In the play Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, kills the king of Scotland, and takes his role as the king. After he kills the king, there are many things that go wrong. After the murder, Macbeth is driven insane, has more people killed, does a terrible job of ruling, and sees his wife take her own...
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...Homicide means to unlawfully and deliberately murder a person. Serial Killers have the desire to commit homicide in a repetitive manner. The average citizen is oblivious to the different types of serial killers. Depending on the type of murder, the technique of the crime changes. Serial Killers are mostly considered to be one of three types: medical killer, organized killer, and disorganized killer. In general, medical homicides are performed by professional medical personnel. They use their career to access the drugs they need to perform the unlawful act. Then they wait to make the “perfect” patient their victim. For example, Beverley Allitt was a nurse who would administer lethal amounts of insulin to children. She would also inject the child with air bubbles. Both the insulin and the air bubbles would bring death to the child. Eventually, Ms. Allitt was caught and arrested on homicide charges. Not only are there medical killers but also organized serial killers. These murderers take their time. They enjoy planning every detail to their sinister adventure. They might even stalk their victim before proceeding with forming the definite plans. When they stalk their prey, they want to make sure that the...
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...Female victims who fit these physical and demographic variables receive disproportionately more coverage because they are a group within society that are rarely targeted – in comparison to other social groups – in other types of murder cases (Gekoski et al., 2012; Haggerty, 2009). Additionally, Gekoski et al. (2012) argues that individuals unconsciously tended to rate the photo of an attractive female victim as of higher importance or worthiness than one of an unattractive female. Picturesque victims further accentuate the story of an unjust crime, which in turn increases the probability of newspapers putting the story on the front cover to not only raise viewership but profitability too. Likewise, children in all other forms of murder are infrequent victims and automatically earn victim legitimacy – meaning violence against them is not questioned or refuted – which jointly cause a spike in news coverage when they are victims of serial killing (Gekoski et al., 2012). Peelo et al. (2004) highlights that of all the serial killing cases broadcasted within the media, children ten and under represented 65% to 70% of the victim population. Reasoning behind this over-representation...
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...of crimes before. There are different types of crimes, but I am going to centre on one type of contemporary crime, which is serial murder, and I will also not forget to look at the incidence, nature, causes and lessening and prevention measures also of serial murder. Understanding Serial Murder/ conceptualisation “South African criminal law defines murder as the unlawful and intentional killing of another person”, Bezuidenhout (2011). In other words the killing must be unlawful in order to be defined as murder. The perpetrator may not be found guilty of murder if she/he claims it was self-defence. Bezuidenhout (2011) , also emphasis that the killing also has to be intentional in order to be labelled as murder. For example if sixteen people die in a car accident. The tax driver may be guilty for not driving like he is expected but he the killing may not be defined a murder. There are many different types of murder, but I will focus on Serial murder. “Serial Murder is defined as the killing of multiple victims over the period of time ranging from days or weeks to months” Adler et al (1996). Adler et al, also emphasis that Serial murders have a minimum of three to four victims. All serial murders turn to have many things in common.“Serial murders tend to be highly mobile in order to minimise the likelihood of establishing links between the murder they commit between various geographic”, Addler (1996). It has been argued by Burchell and Milton (2007),...
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...the main character, a pregnant and jilted wife, Mary Maloney, violently murders her fickle husband. The murder was spontaneous and provoked by her husband’s announcement that he was leaving her. Prior to his announcement, she had been a devoted housewife as seen through the many kind thoughts and actions that occur throughout the exposition. This kind nature, coupled with her cunning ability to think on the fly makes her an unlikely suspect. To begin, Mary Maloney’s soft and kind-hearted personality as demonstrated through her kindnesses towards her husband and her worries concerning her unborn child makes her an unlikely suspect. Firstly, shows her kindness...
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...In the year 2054 in Washington D.C., a very special section of the crime task force is created called the Precrime Unit. It is under this department that future murders are seen by three gifted beings referred to as the Precogs. They see the method of murder, potential victim, and the alleged murderer. John Anderton is the chief of the precrime police and is one of the people who have helped in achieving such a buzz around the efficiency of the program to spread it nationally. With an agent keeping out a vigilant eye on the efficiency of the program, Anderton is determined to show that the program is flawless. However, he sees that the next murder seen is that of Anderton himself murdering a man named Leo Crow. Now Anderton knows that he has no intention whatsoever of killing this person because he does not know who he is, so he immediately sees it as a means to frame him for a murder to make the unit look bad. So what he does is he goes to the woman who helped develop the precrime unit, Dr. Iris Hineman, to give him a clue whether the system that he thought was perfect maybe flawed after all. He finds out that there is a minority report, or a vision that deviates from the majority of the predictions seen that may say otherwise about the murder and learns that Agatha, the female precog, is the key to solving this mystery. So Anderton has an eye transplant to confuse the eye scanners that check your id to steal Agatha. From her he learns that the he does not have a minority report...
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...The case of Scott Peterson who is convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson and their 8 mouths old unborn son is one of the most controversial case during the last few years. In other people’s sights, this is a perfect marriage. While Peterson’s affair with Amber Frey could leads to his strong desire of being single again, which could be considered as his motive of murdering his wife. Even though Scott Peterson insists his innocence and the lack of direct evidence make it hard to connect him as the murder, the circumstances surrounding Laci Peterson’s death and the disposal of her body can be linked to only her husband. The evidences that point to Scott Peterson’s guilt will be presented as following. The first direct evidence is a piece of Laci Peterson’s hair that consistent with her DNA was found in a pliers in Scott Peterson’s boat. This direct evidence that leads to the fact that Scott is involved and might be partly responsible for his wife’s death. Meanwhile, there do have two witnesses proved that Scott was seen fishing at the place which is 19 miles way from his house at the night of Christmas Eve. Few months later, Laci Peterson’s death was discovered at the same spot. The police also found the cement residue in Scott Peterson’s boat which could be used to weigh Laci’s body down in water for months. Additionally, the police found out that Scott was looking at the tidal chart online just a day before Laci’s disappearance. Blood stain were also discovered in Peterson’s...
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...Crystal Williams Engl 111 4/4/14 Delong No to the Death Penalty I believe that the death penalty is absolutely outrageous. Its morally wrong because faith leaders from many denominations have united in their opposition to the death penalty. Many believe the death penalty: does not affirm the sacredness of human life; demeans the value of life, promotes violence, and does not promote spiritual healing and well-being of victims. Also its not a deterrent: The death penalty does not deter crime. A survey of experts from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Law and Society Association found that 88% of the nation’s top criminologists believe the death penalty is not a deterrent. In a 1995 Hart Research Associates Poll of police chiefs, the chiefs ranked the death penalty as the least effective tool in deterring crime. Then its executing innocent people at times. The Criminal Justice System is not infallible, and as long as states impose the death penalty innocent people will be put to death. Since the U.S. reinstituted the death penalty in 1973, 139 wrongly convicted people have been released from death row. Then comes the cost. The death penalty costs significantly more than a life without parole sentence, in some estimates about 10 times the amount. This is because of the heightened process that the death penalty requires. The average length of time from a sentence of death to an execution is 13 years. During that time the...
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...highest rate of intimate partner violence almost triple the national average. Among female victims of intimate partner violence, 94% of those ages 16-19 and 70% of those ages 20-24 were victimized by a current or former boyfriend or girlfriend. Violent behavior typically begins between the ages of 12 and 18. Intimate partner violence is often greater in cases where the pattern of abuse was established in adolescence. Marcus Mctear was a star running back at Raegan High school in Austin Texas. At 16 and he was bright and popular and dreamed of college. Until a spring day in March 2003.the popular athlete stabbed his girlfriend, Otralla Mosely, to death in a hallway after she tried to break up with him. Marcus was arrested and charged with murder. He pleaded guilty and is now serving a 40 year sentence. I would never think someone could be so sweet and focused be on the right track, but 4 out ten times them be main ones that end up that way. Sara Van Zanten, 18 was lying on the floor, an ice pack on her aching ribs; she had no idea where she was. She was dating a football player Jeremy Carson he was insulting demanding, and finally physically abuse. She put out a restraining order. Jeremy came to school drunk and pushed her against the lockers and yells at her saying you can’t hide from me. He told her that he was going to beat the crap out of her....
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