Essay on The Wrongful Conviction of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter

In the Pursuit of Freedom and Justice there was a Hurricane In times of national discontent and social injustice, music is one of the leading forms of rebellion and storytelling. In 1975, Bob Dylan contributed to this rebellious storytelling narrative by creating “Hurricane” a song about the wrongful imprisonment of middleweight fighter Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. There is a common idea that the issues we face do not have the same magnitude the issues our predecessors faced. By assuming this idea,

Rhetorical Analysis of “Hurricane” Martin Luther King once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political, but because it is right.” The song “Hurricane”, written by Bob Dylan takes a stand and ignores what was safe, popular, and politically right during the 1960’s and 1970’s, in order to paint a picture of injustice. Dylan organizes the actual events of a man named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was a middleweight boxer

many as 6,000 persons a year are wrongfully convicted of felonies in the United States. There are no similar estimates of the number of wrongful convictions in Canada. An official with the Department of Justice recently estimated that the Department receives about 30 applications a year for the review of criminal convictions. The causes of wrongful convictions are easy to identify: irregularities and incompetence at the investigatory, pre-trial, trial and appellate stages of the criminal justice

noting that 87 men have been freed from death row since 1977, with three already released this year. • A newly-released study of 62 inmates cleared by DNA evidence demonstrates that mistaken eyewitness testimony was involved in 84% of the wrongful convictions (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/16/00). • A February 2000 Gallup Poll showed that death-penalty support is at a 19-year low. • The United States is the only Western democracy that still carries out executions. Since 1976, 41 other countries