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According to the video, it was in the year of 1951, in Edna Texas, when Pedro ‘Pete’ Hernandez, a migrant agricultural worker, killed Joe Espinosa, the employer of Pete, at a bar. Pete and Joe were arguing and Pete got angry left the bar, and when he came back he took out his gun and shot Joe Espinosa. Pete’s mother went to San Antonio and asked Gus Garcia, a well-known lawyer, to help defend Pete. Gus Garcia knew Pete was certainly guilty; however, he and his colleagues took this opportunity and made a strategy to go

In this summary response we are summarizing the article “On Punishment and Teen Killers”. In this article Jennifer Jenkins talks about her sister’s experience and how it was caused by a teenager. And what she is basically trying to make a claim on how teens do deserve to go to life sentences. But yet she does not have any experience since she is just a teacher.

Anthony Rolon was one out of roughly three dozen teens in Massachusetts to be convicted of murder and sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole during the 1980’s to 1990’s. When the details of Rolon’s crime were being discussed, I initially thought he had intended to kill his victim, Bobby

The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial was one of the most shocking displays of injustice carried on by the court of California. The trial focused on the murder of twenty two year old Jose Diaz who had been beaten and stabbed near a reservoir known as Sleepy Lagoon. Sleepy Lagoon had always been a place that comminity and gang members frequently visited located in East Los Angeles. On the evening of August 1, 1942 two rivaling gangs had a violent confrontation between one another. This led to future events which would result in the murder of Jose Diaz. The Los Angeles Police department held 600 youths in custody as well as charged 2 people for the murder of Diaz. The court held 22 people responsible for the death of Diaz despite lack of evidence and

The decision whether the life sentence without parole is cruel and/or unusual punishment, is a world wide problem. On this article, Brown brings up cases about teenagers who have committee murder by accident or on purpose and how they should be punished. The reason why I want to use this article is for the disagreement I feel on this argument, how the brain hasn't develop and why the teens should take responsibility for its actions.

Gail Garinger in the article, Juveniles don’t deserve Life Sentences,claims that juveniles should not get a life sentence. Garinger supports her claims by first lists teens and young adults that have done terrible crimes. She then describes homicide as the worst crime,but explains how the Supreme Court won't give juveniles a life sentence for it. Lastly, the author explains how criminologists promoted a superpredator but how it never came to be. Garinger’s purpose is to inform people how kids don't deserve life sentences in order to inform people that they still have so much to live for. The author writes in a formal tone for the readers. This work is significant because it informed me on all the lives that have gotten life sentences.

“Complex/Capital Case.” I stared at these words typed on my local county sheriff’s inmate directory. Above was an image of a man — face beaten and showing dozens of gang-affiliated tattoos — and I attempted to see a resemblance between his face and my own. I spent hours researching what “complex/capital case” means, and once I read the words “death penalty,” and although I knew that he had yet to be tried, what I did know was that this was the end for him. On the screen in front of me was the image of a man who was convicted of seventy-one counts of assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and attempted murder.

Juan Seguin is one of the greatest Texas heroes we have.He was one of the only Mexicans to fight with the texians in the Texas Revolution.Maybe this story will help you learn about this great warrior during the Texas Revolution.

The victims who were shot and killed, were Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, and it was told by news reports that the two were spotted at the same Boston Nightclub as Hernandez was the nights of the murders. A grand jury then charged Hernandez with two counts of first-degree murder. He was also charge with assault and weapons in connection to the case. Hernandez’s lawyers then released a statement, “claiming that the former athlete was “innocent of the charges” and looked “forward to his day in court””.

The crime had taken place on the outskirts of Winston Salem, North Carolina on August 10, 1984. Mrs. Sykes was late for work, which was not normal causing Mr. Dawson (former news editor of Sentinel) to go out looking for her. Being that she wasn’t there the police were called by Fred Flagler (papers managing editor) and her husband Mr. Sykes was notified. Around 1:55 pm that day the body of Mrs. Sykes was found a half block from the newspapers. There were stab wounds all over her body and she had also been raped. A pathologist at Chapel Hill said she was stabbed 16 times and the fatal blow consisted of a stab wound that went 5 inches deep piercing her heart.

January 13, 1992 Wuornos’ capital trail for the murder of Richard Mallory began. Capital Punishment in Context website states, “Wuornos was charged with the first-degree murder of Richard Mallory, armed robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Prosecutors argued Wuornos qualified for the death penalty based on the charge of murder committed in the course of a robbery”. The case was tried in Volusia County, Florida. Wuornos was represented by Tricia Jenkins, Chief Assistant Public Defender of the Fifth Judicial Circuit. Steven Glazer, private attorney, represented Wuornos following the first trial. John Tanner was the District Attorney. According to the Capital in Punishment in Context website it states, “Judge Uriel Blount

He was initially charged with 14 murders and 31 other felonies during his killing spree (Blanco

Ronald Gene Simmons: 1940-1990 Ronald Gene Simmons was a feared man. His wife threatned to leave him on many occasions, this time she made one to many threats. Simmons had many children. He took interest in his daughter, more than a dad should. Her name was Shelia Simmons McNulty.

When the Judge announced the verdict “Guilty” there was a slight murmur in the court room as was expected. Then the Judge began to announce the sentence “Life in prison without the possibility of parole”, the words cutting through the air like an arrow through a paper target. The courtroom was an arena of mixed feelings, half cheering in a celebratory manner, the other half crying and shouting in disbelief. Someone’s 13 year old son was going to prison for the rest of his life without any chance of parole. Children should never be sentenced to life without parole, making the sentence in

They were found guilty for murder. And finally they were hung, for a murder and a robbery with a profit of $50. The execution takes place at January the 14th; ‘the Kansas Supreme Court decreed that their lives must end between midnight and 2: 00 a. m., Wednesday, April 14, 1965.’