The Narrator's Guilty Of First Degree Murder

To begin with, the narrator is guilty of premeditated murder because he planned to dispatch the innocent man. Throughout the short story, Edgar Allan Poe describes the events leading to the confession and made some points clear that he is guilty of premeditated murder. For example, the narrator tells the readers that he has been stalking the old man for seven nights just at twelve. “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him … to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked upon him while he slept.” (Poe) As you can see, the narrator is clearly devising a plan to kill the old

Insanity is a mental illness that causes people to not be able to recognize the difference between what is real and what is fake. They are unable to control their abrupt behavior and they cannot manage their own affairs. Someone who is insane should not be held accountable for actions

O’Brien, like many other characters, feels guilty about more than one thing. For example, “I feel guilty sometimes. Forty-three years old and I’m still writing stories” (34). Not only does O’Brien feel guilty about writing stories still, but the feels the most guilty about the man he killed. “This is why I keep writing war stories: He was a short, slender young man of about twenty” (131). O’Brien is basically saying that the guilt he has over the death of this man is why he writes stories. Additionally, O’Brien says things such as “The young man’s fingernails were clean” and “He wore a gold ring on the third finger of his right hand” (128). The fact that O’Brien has every detail of the man’s appearance, and a fake backstory of the man memorized, shows just how much the guilt of killing this man has made O’Brien think about the man, and what his life could have been.

To start, the In addition to the fact that the narrator understood that murdering someone is wrong, the narrator has a motive for killing the old man. Right off the bat, the narrator tells the reader why he wanted to kill the old man. He says, “I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.” This indicates that he had a clear rationale for killing the old man and is guilty of first degree, or premeditated murder. Some may argue that the narrator is mentally insane and killed the man because over an irrational fear caused by his mental illness. However, an insane person would not wait to terminate a powerful feeling of paranoia and to assassinate the person causing such fear.

Is the narrator guilty of first degree murder or not guilty by reason of insanity? In the story the narrator has been acting strange and doing things that a

Guilt in Charles Brockden Browns’ Wieland There are many ways to decide what makes a man guilty. In an ethical sense, there is more to guilt than just committing the crime. In Charles Brockden Browns’ Wieland, the reader is presented with a moral dilemma: is Theodore Wieland guilty of

The murderer is guilty of first degree murder because he admitted to the authorities that he killed the man and that he was very guilty for doing so. The murderer told every step leading up to his murder of the suspect. The murderer also described how he cleaned up the body after he disassembled it and his the body parts under the floorboards. This man that killed another man is guilty of first degree murder, whether he is insane or sane, he did the deed and must serve his

“It was a head-doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie” (306). The reason why he thinks like this might be because he was falsely accused of killing his own father. He simply does whatever he wants to in life in his own complete free will due to his philosophy on life.

In February of 2008, I was sitting in a General Court Martial proceeding to defend myself against third-degree murder charges, which arose from a raid my platoon conducted in the rural areas outside of Kirkuk, Iraq. On the night of June 23, 2007, my Platoon Sergeant (PSG) shot and killed a detainee that we had captured early that evening. Realizing what he had just done, my PSG gave me an order that would eventually have me implicated in his crime. I was acquitted of the murder charges, but found guilty of assault through my own testimony. The fact of the matter is, I had a psychotic Platoon Sergeant; Trey Corrales was the walking definition of “Toxic Leadership.” Under the control of Trey Corrales, serving in this platoon was one of the

On a dark night Macbeth paced back and forth with the thought of murder going through his mind. It was this night Macbeth and his wife planned on murdering the King, Duncan. After committing the crime he confesses to his wife that it is done, “I have done the deed” (2.2. 14). Macbeth would be charged with first degree murder because of the following reasons. The murder of duncan was premeditated, he showed guilt, and continued to murder. Although he may be llusional now he was not at that state before he committed the murder, once he took action the mental torture began.

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The narrator committed murder because he didn’t like the vulture eye of the old man; he committed a very big sin for one tiny dislike. He then, uninterrupted, cut the body into pieces so he could hide it. “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all, I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye – not even his – could have detected anything wrong” (Poe 95). No one in their right mind is going to be able to commit murder, dismember the body, and hide the body without any feelings at all. He made it seem like it didn’t affect him at all emotionally or mentally when he did this, but maybe that was what was wrong with him all

because he wanted justice, and valued the importance of life. In the last part of the story a line

Accused and Innocent Murder on a Sunday Morning, an award-winning documentary, effectively relays the events surrounding a murder trial that took place in 2000 in which 15-year-old Brenton Butler was the defendant. In his hometown, Jacksonville, Florida, this young boy did nothing unusual on the day of the murder; he simply woke up, fed his dog, and went to submit a job application. However, his life was about to be drastically changed. Police had already initiated their pursuit of a black man who had robbed and murdered a white tourist just hours earlier. Without any evidence against Butler besides his skin color, the police drove him to the victim’s husband, Mr. Stephens, who positively identified him as the killer. The investigation and interrogation that ensued were proved in court to have been mishandled by police: detectives threatened and physically injured Butler to obtain the confession they needed. Ultimately, the verdict was not guilty on both charges of armed robbery and murder. What originally appeared to be a solid case against Butler was a façade that defense attorneys Ann Finnell and Patrick McGuinness utterly destroyed. Murder on a Sunday Morning impugns the actions of police officers, displays how race affects a case, and demonstrates the effective use of articulate arguments.

Crimes are most associated with adults. Murder is especially most associated with adults. When a teenager commits such a crime such as murder they must be tried, and they should not be treated with leniency and coddling, but with the full force of the law as an adult.