In this world half of the adult's follow their parent's or grandparent's path as their guardians and receive theirs thoughts or words as their guideline for their life in better way but. Helen and Phelps they fallow their and view the same point but they not fallowing their guideline and its because of their job.
In the book "Dead Man Walking" Helen Prejean is a main character and an narrator of the book. Hellen tells us about her experience of being spiritual advisor for inmate named Patrick Sonnier and he was sentenced to death for killing the two teenagers. In the begging Helen was working for housing for poor people and when Helens friend Chava Colon asked Helen to be a " pen pal" to the death row inmate and Helens answer was "sure",
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and when Helen met with Phelps the firs thing she recognizes Phelps is "soft-spoken" man and the photograph of his family.and when Helen asks Phelps what has been accomplished by the execution, and he says "Zero" meaning nothing. and Phelps doesn't think that the death penalty is just or useful but. Mr.Phelps feels he is just doing his job and following the law. And Phelps says if he felt he couldn't do the job, he'd have to resign which would be bad for inmates, because he does his job thoughtfully and compassionately. and when Helen asked Phelps how he designed how should execution work Phelps told Helen he designed the execution process, and it had to be done so that the executioner would be anonymous. and Phelps explains how they hiring an executioner "we hide a man an electrician who filled out a civil service application for the job. Frank Blackburn," and Blackburn says gave him a name "Sam Jones". it means No one wants to know about the executioner and who is he. and Helen acknowledges that the situation is
In The Red Parts: An Autobiography of a Trial, Maggie Nelson, the author tells the story about her aunt who was murdered in 1969 and how her family suffers through the reopening of the case. Maggie’s aunt, Jane Mixer, was found dead, shot in the back of the head twice, strangled, and then was left unceremoniously, abandoned in a cemetery. Because of the way Jane’s murder was presented, she was thought to be part of a killing spree. During the initial investigation, the police arrested a suspect in 1970 and he was sentenced to life in prison. In 2005 however, Maggie’s family got a call from a detective explaining that he might have a new lead in Jane’s murder and that the man that they originally arrested for it, was innocent after all. He had “every reason to believe [that] this case [was] moving swiftly towards a successful conclusion” (Nelson 1).
In two similar pieces, one man stands for the innocence wrongly convicted men. These pieces look into the severe injustice of the justice system. These men are Juror 8 from 12 Angry Men and Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird. In both To Kill A Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men, men were wrongly convicted and are being fought for by men who used multiple different . By comparing their argument techniques and use of ethos, logos, and pathos, we learn how Juror 8 and Atticus Finch worked to try to change prejudiced minds.
At this point in the movie, the audience has not learned much of McKinney and Russell Henderson, the other person charged of killing Shepard. Because the dialogue is in the confession setting, McKinney keeps his answers to a minimum and only answers to what has been asked. That makes the subtext during the scene very noticeable because the audience develops their opinion of the boys during that instance. Through the short confession and his demeanor, the audience can conclude that McKinney was homophobic and unwilling to grant Shepard any mercy when he beat him. The police officer asks questions that are to the point, trying to gain as much information as possible. McKinney answers without hesitation and tells what he claims to be the truth while revealing that he is nervous about the outcome of his trial. This addition to the play is interesting because it has to be staged as an actual occurrence rather than as an interview. It is similar to the speech made by Dennis Shepard because the theater group did not specifically ask questions in search for these answers, but they use the information because it gives the docudrama its sense of reality. This confession shapes the murderers as characters and helps the audience answer some lingering questions. It also allows the theater group to gather information and interviews from townspeople in response to this specific confession and how they felt about
The article “Dead man still walking: Explaining the zombie renaissance” by Kyle Bishop is about the revitalization of the zombie genre. The article talks about the inception in the late 1960’s, the category of zombie films has had its roller coaster ride of ups and downs, starting with its decline in the early 1980’s with the release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. Furthermore, during 1990’s, due to the shift in the cultural consciousness that came with the Clinton Administration and the countries isolation from global tragedies, the popularity of these films continued to decline. Cultural consciousness refers to the understanding and awareness a shift in feelings, sensations, thoughts, of not only our own culture, but adjoining cultures.
The Elders make all the important decisions in a community members. “We [The Elders] have given you [Asher] the assignment of Assistant Director of Recreation” (56). The community Elders do not give a choice when it comes to picking a job because they believe they know what is best for each individual. The Elders don’t want to give community members the opportunity to choose wrong; possibly because they feel like the members will feel emotions that they do not allow, disrupting the Sameness within the community. “As a result of Father’s plea, Gabriel had been labeled Uncertain and given an additional year” (42). Even as a Nurturer, Father does not make the decision to keep Gabriel alive; the Elders do. They choose whether or not
In The Laramie Project, Andrew Gomez’s casual dialogue, word choice, and varying sentence length shows his shifting state of mind and his innermost thoughts as he speaks. The hidden context given by Gomez helps to show the hardships of prison and the suffering Aaron will have to endure as a result of the murder. Gomez begins, “I was in there, I was in jail with Aaron in December. I got thrown in over Christmas. Assault and battery, two counts.
In our society, we tend to follow certain many moral principles and if not followed, there could be many negative consequences. Based on the novel, we can tell that Jeannette’s parents were very unethical; in the beginning of the memoir, Jeannette shares
The book, “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson pleas to fix the current unfair and fragmented system of criminal justice and juvenile justice. The book’s plot focuses majority on Stevenson’s work and his clients. The main narrative tackles the story of Walter McMillan, who was accused of killing a white woman, but despite hard evidence that would prove he’s innocent, is disregarded by the court due to his race. The main issue was not even the lack of care for racial equality in this case, but the fact that he was placed on death row before his case went to trial. This is one of many unjust cases that have happened in the past and that are currently happening in the system revolving around the death penalty. The remaining excerpts from the book
After reading “Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?” by Robert F. Worth does a documentary in Libya about a man who is a loyalist to a dictator name Qaddafi. Qaddafi was the leader of Libya who has slaughtered, tortured, and murdered people who didn’t follow him such as the rebels. Worth goes to this Prison to do a documentary to speak with a man name Marwan who executed six men. In Libya is now controlled by militias who one of the man Nasser who works in the prison. He is the oldest brother of the victim who got slaughtered from the six people that were executed. The theme of finding the truth and seeking justice of the six people who got executed by a man who showed no remorse for killing because he was following order and a loyalist to his leader. The point of view of
In the second premise, he answers why it is wrong to kill another human being by saying that when an innocent adult human being is killed the victim is deprived of potential valuable experience. For instance if someone killed at their forties and gets killed, all of us would say that this an incredibly tragic state of affairs and why is it tragic, is because the person could have done wonderful things with the rest of his or her lives, he could have been married, they could have had kids the
Chamber is where a person is put in a room with a deadly gas called
With a very short temper to go along with his all-powerful attitude, juror three is not a nice person. Already he has threatened death towards one of the other jurors and would have made good the threat had it not been for the decisive actions of the other jurors who jumped up to hold him back.. An acrimonious and blind-sighted executioner, juror #3 is one of many that an innocent victim would not want to decide their fate. Unfortunately, democracy does not only apply to the fair and just, and undoubtedly innocent men and women have fallen prey to the unwavering wrath of men
I think Helen is more made at her father and is taking this out on her mother, maybe she feels like the mother should have demand her father be there for the family. I think Helen is reflecting anger towards her mother but she is really upset with her father, it seems like she is upset that her father has a good relationship with her siblings and the grandchildren when he wasn’t there for her and her siblings she feels he doesn’t deserve to have the good relationship with everyone when he wasn’t there when they was coming up in their childhood. Helen she feels the mother was there for her and her sibling but everyone thinks the mother is the one with the issues but she was the one that was there for them and the father wasn’t. I think she is having problems with the choice she chose to be angry with the mother but I think she is angry with the mother because she feels the mother should of made a better choice to make her father be in their lives more coming up but she seems like she is placing blame on her mother for her past when she is really is upset with her father.
Across America, certain states allow their governments to make use of the death penalty for a myriad of crimes. The methods through which it is attained is often as controversial as the act itself. In the tale of The Confession by John Grisham, the city of Slone, Texas comes to terms with the severe ramifications that come with taking someone's life, whether it be condoned by the law or not. In the case of Donté Drumm, a young football player is accused of killing Nicole Yerber, a popular cheerleader who was supposedly dating him at the time. He was forced into a confession by means of psychological torture. After nine years, Donté is killed for a crime he did not commit. The town unearths the reality that taking someone's life is a permanent action which cannot be undone when a mistake is made. The Confession takes a closer look at what the death penalty really means by not only looking at the statistics but the emotional toll it takes on the people connected to it too, explaining how the death penalty is fundamentally wrong and looking at ways to open people's eyes to the truth of it.
Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man tells the story of a man from Cleveland, at that time one of the already civilised and industrialised parts of the United States of America (Aurich et al. 231), who is heading west to work as an accountant for the company Dickinson Metal Works. The story is set in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the frontier, at the western part of North America, was still a rough environment for settlers. It is almost comical that William ‘Bill’ Blake, the main protagonist of the movie played by the actor Johnny Depp, travels to the still unknown and adventurous west to take up the unexcitedly and greatly unromantically position of an accountant (Aurich et al. 231).