Steven Murray Truscott's Death Sentence

In order to feel powerful, his first two victims were young children. Being released 15 years into his 25 year sentence meant he could be back into society world, but had his criminal record sealed, so he could be able to live in a town. With the record being sealed, he later would go back to his killing ways, but with older women. With the record being sealed gave him the option to go back to his way. Maybe if the record was not sealed, he would of never gone back to killing. With him changing up to older women and the lack of information kept by the police made Shawcross not a suspected for awhile. My believe/policy is that the police should never seal criminal records and have them be viewable to the community. Everyone has the right to know if a convicted murder is living among their neighborhood. By using general strain theory, we could possibly figure out what the person might do after he is released. Arthur already was in prison for committing murder so we could've used this theory to see what he might do once he got out. When he was released, we could of watched for similar crimes in the area once he settled down in a place. This will cause past offender to be the first suspected if a similar case they were involved in happened near them. Arthur Shawcross received a total of 250 years for his sentence. I would agree the right amount of years of given for his sentence. I believe this because of the severity of the crime(s) he committed. Innocent women were mutilated, murdered, dumped dead in a river or the surrounding area. I’ve researched other crimes, but this might be the worst one I’ve researched about so far. I would say taking one's life should be equal to serving life in prison. In this case, the eye for an eye would be best used for justification. One man killed 11 women and two children, so I believe he should do

Instead, Robert Ford was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang in 1883. He was later pardoned by the Governor of Missouri and died nine years later in a bar fight in Colorado.

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The question of whether or not Wirz could have done more to make life more bearable for the prisoners is still debated today. Because of public outrage and indignation in the North over conditions at Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz was found guilty of war crimes and was hanged on November 10, 1865. It has been said that Wirz was the last casualty of Andersonville.

The first recorded American death sentence was in 1608, when George Kendall was accused of planning to betray the British to the Spanish.

When I continued to read the passages, four years later Sir Thomas Dale, the governor of Virginia, established the Divine, Moral and Martial Laws. They decreed that even petty offences, like pinching grapes, or slaughtering someone else’s chickens, would be punished by death. Other colonies soon followed Virginia’s lead. For example, Duke’s Laws, used from 1665 in New York, determined that the death penalty could be utilized if someone denied the existence of God, or hit their parents. I think it's absurd for executing someone for a petty crime. Yet we still do it.

On Jan. 6, 2004, the state of Arkansas executed Charles Singleton by lethal injection. His death was overlooked by

Thomas’ had a second auditory hallucination episode, in which he used a knife while he was in prison to cut out his remaining good eye and ate it. Thomas also tried to cut his own throat in a separate incident while he was in prison. Prison staff reported finding Thomas with a self-inflicted cut to the throat, after that, he was sent to a Texas psychological prison unit to wait out his time to be executed. This in itself is a miscarriage of justice, since the law states that

Steven Hayes was one of the two men accused in a home invasion that took place in Connecticut in 2007, was sentenced to death in 2010. If you’re unfamiliar with the case, Steven broke into a home with his partner in crime Joshua Komisarjevsky, they kidnapped the mother with the hope of getting into her bank account information. After having sexually assaulted the mother and the younger daughter, he eventually killed the mother and two young daughters, beat the husband with a baseball bat, and set the house on fire immediately before fleeing the scene. Most people have absolutely no idea with the notion that these barbaric males are likely to be executed for their crimes. I can assure you that among so-called “enlightened” individuals, the idea

Preyor, 46, was put to death by lethal injection at a state corrections unit in Huntsville in the fatal stabbing of Jami Tackett during a drug-related robbery in 2004, The Associated Press reported. He claimed he acted in self-defense but was convicted of capital murder.

Unfortunately, Stanley Williams was part of a big gang as a teen. Williams committed many crimes and was convicted of 4 counts of murder. When WIlliams was in prison, he changed and wrote books about how teens should not do crimes or become part of a gang and was nominated for 5 nobel peace prizes. But even after this, “Stanley williams was executed by lethal injection.”

This led to Louis Riel being hanged November 16, 1885. I believe Louis Riel was in fact guilty. Louis Riel organized the death of a man named Thomas Scott and also organized a rebellion that caused many people to lose their lives. Although Louis Riel did not physically kill anyone, he was still responsible for those whose lives we taken in the rebellion. Louis Riel fled to the U.S after the death of Thomas Scott.

Gandhi once stated “The death penalty is just another murder which is carry out by the state.” Abolitionist of the death penalty have a very different perspective then the advocate. Those who oppose it believes no matter how atrocious the crime is, the convicted should not be executed. One debate is that the condemned could be found guilty. More than150 death row inmate have been exonerated since 1976. (InfoBase 23). The execution of Troy Davis showed how inaccurate the death penalty is. Troy Davis was an African American man who was executed on September 21, 2011 for the accusation of murdering a police officer in Savannah, Georgia. (CNN). Many of the witness have changed their stories and some even admitted that they have been persuade and

Data in computerized form is discoverable, even if the paper “hard copies” of the information have been produced. The producing party can be required to design a computer program to extract the data from its computerized business records.

Carlos Ayestas was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Houston in 1997. He was appointed a lawyer from the court because he could not afford a high-powered lawyer to represent him, there wasn’t much of any type of background or mental health assessment don’t before the penalty phase of his trail and the jury relied on what they heard instead of what the evidence would have pointed out.