Murder On A Sunday Morning Essay

The Killer at Thurston High, discussed a teenager named Kip who experienced psychological, emotional, and peer stress in early childhood. Violent and disturbing outburst was often a result of his actions, causing catastrophic traumas to his community and family. The film goes into depth explaining the relationship of Kip’s immediate family and his individual characteristics. The Kinkel family was well known, sophisticated and quite until violence struck.

I think that that Customer C killed Fannin. The first piece of evidence that proves Customer C killed Fannin is that that the cash register had been rung up to 8.75 this is the exact total of Customers B, C, and D. This had to have been done before the murder, because the heel to toe footsteps that belonged to Ernie show that he walked to the cash register after mopping (footstep trail Y.) This was done before the robbery, because the only two reasons that he would’ve opened the register would be to either check someone out, or to give someone money during a stick up. We can tell that he wasn’t getting robbed, because the money’s still there.This allows us to rule out customer A. The second piece of

Defences for Murder There are only three partial defences for murder; suicide pact, provocation-the loss of self control and reaction must be instantaneous and diminished responsibility. Amongst the three mentioned two are most frequently used, these are provocation and diminished responsibility, and only one full defence, self defence. These defences are used to reduce the sentence charge by the defendant to manslaughter from murder. In the following text I will be examining how men use provocation and diminished responsibility to walk free from murder.

Doug finds himself in a very difficult situation and he cant decide whether to do what he knows is right and not except this foolish trade, or what he wants to do because of his longing for Ralph’s friendship. When Doug begins to him reminisce about these memories we see he’s changed a little bit. He hated himself as if it was his fault back then and now as things have gone on that anger has built up substantially. The difference is now that anger has redirected almost completely at Ralph. He tries to solve this conflict within himself by blaming everything on Ralph. This only makes things worse by reversing that anger to Ralph causing Doug to decide to kill him.

The film “Murder on a Sunday Morning” is a documentary on the murder of Mary Ann Stephens. This murder took place on May 7, 2000, in Jacksonville, Florida. Mary Anne Stephens was at the Ramada hotel with her husband when a dark male wearing a dark shirt, shorts, and a flat brim hat approached her and demanded for her purse. Within 5 seconds she was shot in the face by the bridge of her nose and killed. It was later that day hat Brenton Butler was stopped by police and identified by husband of Mary Anne Stephens. Brenton Butler was taken into custody where he remained for the next six months facing charges of murder in the first degree and armed robbery. Through evidence such as the clothes Brenton was wearing on the day of the murder, an alibi of going to blockbuster to hand in an application, and lack of forensic testing, Brenton was found not guilty in the case of Florida v. Brenton Leonard Butler after the jury convened for forty-five minutes on the twenty-first of November in 2000. The Jacksonville grand jury also decided not to file criminal charged against the three officers. After the case on March 12, 2001 the forensics department retrieved the purse to process all parts of it to find fingerprints matching to Juan Curtis who admitted to shooting Mary Ann Stephens. The Butler family planed to sue the sheriffs officers in an $8.5 million civil rights lawsuit.

After analyzing prior situations and keeping in mind the perspective of novel, Clare’s killer has an obvious answer. Clare’s husband poses no real danger to Clare when he comes bursting into the party. Jack is outnumbered by the many black men in the room. They can easily prevent him from getting near Clare. He has only appeared up to three times in the novel. Every other time he is only mentioned in passing. If he was Clare’s killer he would been brought up more. Jack is also quiet a distance away from Clare as he is at the entrance while she is on the other side of the room. Clare would not have committed suicide because, she is not upset. She eventually wanted out of her marriage and her husband finding out her true racial heritage is the perfect way out. She smiles also seeing no danger in the situation. Brian did not kill Claire because like Jack, he is on the other side of the room amongst a throng of people at the entrance. There is no motivation as there is no affair. Irene even said she had no proof of infidelity

In recent history massive wars, resulting in countless lives lost, have been waged simply over not belonging to the ‘right’ or ‘our’ race. Most people would agree the concept of disliking someone simply because they look different and belong to another race, is pure ignorance. To say that because a person has dark skin that they will respond or behave in a certain manner is again ignorant.

but it is connected to money. There is no victim in it but the villain

Murder on a Sunday Morning is about an African American boy who was wrongly convicted of murder. He was only fifteen years old when his life changed forever. While first watching the documentary, it seems to the audience that Brenton Butler, the convicted boy, is guilty. Mr. Stephens, husband of the victim, Ann Stephens, claims that Butler came over, tried to take Anna Stephens’ purse, and then before she could comply, he raised his gun and shot her in the face. Sadly, Mr. Stephens was the only eye-witness, which is a major red flag, as he is connected to the victim. After being forced by the detective, Butler confesses. Once defense attorney, Patrick McGuinness is involved, he has Butler tell the court of his innocence and thus beings the criminal proceedings for Brenton Butler.

Imagine walking down your neighborhood block on a beautiful Sunday morning. All that is at the forefront of your thoughts is getting to Blockbuster and turning in a work application, for purposes of purchasing your favorite musician’s new album. But now you are stopped by a police officer accusing you of murder, placed in a cop car, and driven to the scene where you have been identified as a killer. This is precisely what happened to the young, 15-year-old Brenton Butler depicted in the Academy Award winning documentary: Murder on a Sunday Morning, which details the trial of Brenton v. Florida.

An example that is much like Justine’s is the execution of Lena Baker, a poor, black slave. In 1944, Baker got into a fight with her slave owner who was attempting to beat her. Baker feared for her life as she tussled to get the pistol out of her owner’s hands. In the end, she shot her owner, in pure self-defense. As stated by Lela Bond Phillips in her article, “The Lena Baker Story: Execution in a Small Town,” “The trial didn’t last even a full court day, taking a little over four hours” (). No matter how much she pleaded, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. Before her execution, “she was signed into one of the worst prisons in the United States” (). Lena Baker’s trial can relate in many ways to Justine’s, both highlighting the flaws of the criminal justice system. Just like Justine, Lena Baker was found guilty with hardly any ground-breaking evidence. The article states, “The verdict was contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it” (). Also, similar to Justine’s case, Lena Baker was put into a worse prison-chamber. Both Justine and Lena Baker were treated unfairly in the criminal justice system, with both having to do with the fact they are women and

In the opening of the film “The Killer at Thurston High”, the narrator claims that Kipland Kinkel’s life was “nothing remarkable” (Kirk, M. PBS Video.) After viewing the film and considering this claim, I will admit I am bothered by it. The film itself is a documentary of a large school shooting, which is anything but unremarkable. In addition, the events and description of Kip’s life within the video completely contradict this statement. Kip Kinkel’s life is filled with family, educational, and bullying issues. In fact, he failed at nearly everything he attempted to do.

“The Tell-Tale Heart,” a riveting short story by Edgar Allen Poe, contains evidence that the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder. The facts that the narrator planned the murder, the killer waited 8 days, the narrator claims that he is not mad, and he chopped up and hid the body once he killed the old man with the vulture eye lead the reader to conclude the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder. First of all, the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder because he planned the murder. What legally separates premeditated murder from someone who is criminally insane is the fact that the murder is planned instead of the killer doing it without a plan and just solely on instinct. Some people who do not know their legal matter may say that the killer

We live in a world where racism is a key factor in society. Racial discrimination has happened since that late 1800’s with slavery. Discrimination is associated with prejudice. Prejudices are caused when one group thinks they are better than another because they lack the qualities that are similar to a certain group.

the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or