The Mrs. Andrea Yates Trial

In 1982, the Supreme Court decided Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley. A deaf student, named Amy Rowley enrolled in kindergarten in public school in Peekskill, New York. Amy’s parents met with school administrators to plan for her attendance and to determine what

Although biological theories can be utilized to explain Aileen’s behaviors, much attention should focus on circumstances that surrounded her environment. The relationships and experiences that she faced throughout her life had a significant impact on her violent behavior. For decades, scholars have attempted to examine commonalities throughout the childhood of serial killers. More specifically, most serial killers have experienced psychological, physical and sexual abuse during their childhood, which is often associated with violent behavior (Ioannou, 2010). Sadly, Aileen also experienced much physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse as a child. Another issue she experienced, like most serial killers, was rejection and neglect not only

Andrea Yates was a mother of five who lived in a Houston suburb. Andrea suffered from serve postpartum depression and psychosis which unfortunately lead her to drown all five of children in a bath tub one afternoon. Andrea was charged with capital murder and was given life in prison with

Overview: On June 7th 2008, Sarah May Ward was arrested for the murder of Eli Westlake after she ran him over in a motor vehicle in St. Leonards. Prior to the incident the offender had been driving the wrong way down Christine Lane which was a one way street. Whilst this

Casey Anthony is an Ohio-born and Florida-raised woman that had a daughter named Caylee Anthony be born on August 9, 2005. In the summer of June 2008, following a major argument with her parents, Cindy and George Anthony, who were questioning her suitability as a mother figure, Casey left her

The last part of the book focuses on the trial. Perry stays in the female cell of the jail where he became very close with Mrs. Meier. Perry refused to sign the statement because he wanted to change two things in it... that Dick had not killed Nancy and her mother. He wanted revenge on Hickok and blamed him for half of the murder which was not true. Dr.Jones is brought into the picture as the phycologist to bring his opinion on the case. The trial was set to start on March 22, 1960, but didn’t start until the Wednesday after. Nancy Ewalt and Susan Kidwell were the first the testify about the murder scene and many followed. Mr.Hickock, Dicks father, didn’t understand why there was a case as they were going to execute them anyways. They bring

The Renisha McBride Trial All through the United States the African American community has been targeted by the Caucasian community. We are in the year 2015 and still to this day we are having the same problem our grandparents and their ancestors were dealing with in today’s modern society. A young lady by the name of Renisha McBride became another victim of racism, she was shot and killed asking for help after she was in a car accident. The accident happened in Dearborn Heights Michigan, which is 20 minutes away from the major city Detroit. This is an unfortunate event that happens all the time throughout the country.

On November 1, 2007, Meredith Kercher a British exchange student, from the University of Leeds, was found dead in her home in Perugia, Italy. Meredith’s lifeless body was discovered by her flatmate, Amanda Knox and Knox’s boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Meredith’s bedroom door was locked, but the window had been broken. Initially, police suspected that, Meredith had been attacked by

During Yates’ second trial, the jury was not death qualified and once again the insanity defense was used. In Texas, the insanity defense standard, essentially has to answer the question of whether or not the individual knew what they were doing was wrong, or if their mind was guilty (mens rea). The defense psychiatrist, Phillip Resnick, stated that Yates was indeed psychotic. Resnick also explained that Yates believed that by killing her children she would defeat Satan (Resnick, 2007). Yates believed that drowning her children would be better than having them grow up and eventually burn in hell for their wrongdoings (Resnick, 2007). Yates motives were conflicting because she knew what she did was wrong, but simultaneously she thought it was

It’s been almost fourteen years since Andrea Yates drowned and killed her five children in the bathroom of their home. She confessed to her husband, Rusty, and to the police of her crime. She was 36 years old at the time and had a history postpartum psychosis as well as

From Avengers to Prosecutors: Ending Barbaric Justice. Every generation has felt, at one point or another, uneasy about the efficacy of their justice system. One need not look further than a few months ago with the controversial murder trial of Casey Anthony. People were enraged by the jury’s decision to let her go. Up until today, many people are convinced that there existed enough evidence for convicting her of first-degree murder of her daughter. Can we say that today’s justice system is ineffective in administering punishment? Should people take matters in their own hands if they do not agree on the court’s decision? Well, two thousand years ago, things were different. People took matters in their own hands. There was no judge, jury, prosecutor or defendant in Ancient Greece. Individuals acted as executioners based on their own predilections on how justice should be administrated and on whom. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus praises the substitution of such blood vengeance system with trial by jury, which according to him was a more civilized and equitable system. In that matter, I must agree with Aeschylus and argue that jury by trial is a far more civilized and equitable system than the old blood vengeance system.

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates, a 46 year old woman and loving wife of Rusty Yates, murdered her five children. First, Andrea drowned her three youngest boys in their bathtub, removed them from the water, laid them on her bed, and then covered them with a bedsheet. Next she drowned her daughter, Mary, and as she was doing so, her oldest son, Noah, asked what was wrong with his sister. Once he saw that Mary was mangled in the bathtub, he started to run away from Andrea. Andrea chased Noah and forcefully held him underwater until his breathing diminished. Next, she grabbed Mary out of the tub and laid her in her three brothers, John, Paul, and Luke’s laps, leaving Noah’s disfigured body suspended in the tub.

She waits for Saturday before she stalks Aaron Echolls again. Digging up his credit history, fine, she could do that between classes. Phone logs were a little sketchier, apparently Mr. Echolls had up to three cell phones, she would have to talk to Logan about that. And internet info… She was put off enough by the number of times people in that house Google-d themselves, she didn’t have time to stomach the porn. The Lilly Kane murder trial interest was morbid, but she figured she could relate. Going back months, there were searches about Lilly. She might talk to Logan about that, too.

Mrs.Maloney should be prosecuted.She was so close to get a heavily punished sentence. The sentence could’ve gotten her the death penalty. In order to get the death penalty you need to be in some serious trouble. You can easily get the death penalty by committing a murder.Especially when you’re

My first piece of evidence is that i got from her was “She liked the warm glow he had”. This shows that she loved him and cared for him and etc. Which will be evidence to that she didn’t mean it when he killed him. She felt betrayed that he would say that he was going to get a divorce with her and she had a six month baby which was a terrible thing to do to a pregnant woman. That is a reason why she slowly started to go crazy.