capital punishment
Weigh the pros, cons and controversies surrounding the grave issue of capital punishment; should the death penalty be allowed?
The Irish Immigrant Who Took the Life of Her Employer for Money and Love
Grace Marks was an Irish immigrant maid who murdered her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Little facts remain about the case; much is speculation due to the contrasting stories given by the co-defendants.
By Sam H Arnold4 years ago in Criminal
The Twitter Serial Killer
A quaint house in a small residential area of Kanagawa, just outside of Tokyo. Here a normal-looking Japanese man of 27 years old, in 2017, welcomed nine people into that house and then went on to assault, kill, dismember, and dispose of them until finally being apprehended and being found guilty on October 1st, 2020.
By S.A. Ozbourne4 years ago in Criminal
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
“Tell me, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.” — reported final words of Peter Kürten before his execution
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Executed Killer and Child Rapist Confesses to a Final Crime from the Grave
David Neal Cox pleaded guilty to shooting his wife, Kim Kirk Cox, and sexually assaulting her 12-year-old daughter in front of her as she lay dying in May 2010. On November 17, 2021, that same stepdaughter, Lindsey Kirk, watched as 50-year-old Cox was executed by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. He was the first inmate to be executed in the state in nine years.
By A.W. Naves4 years ago in Criminal
Capital Punishment
My step-dad Todd and I were having some breakfast together as it was announced that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in his trial. Todd and I have different opinions and it is rare that we agree on a topic that is politically charged. After it was announced Todd started on a rant about the case and how it shouldn't have been the way it was, and for once Todd and I agreed. He described how he is very hurt over the fact that races were not correctly displayed among the jury. He then proceeded into talking about how he was a police officer for over twenty years and as a man of color he understands both perspectives and that he ended up leaving the force due to too many injustices that he personally saw. It has been made clear that there are still to this day many racial injustices and a lot of them are made within the justice system. An injustice that I researched is capital punishment, I feel like the system is poorly set up and because of that the punishment is unfair.
By kaylin flaherty4 years ago in Criminal
BRANDING A PERSON WAS ONLY ABOLISHED IN 1879
Branding on the face was used to reprimand people on the margins of society. Judges would punish the poor for minor thefts, deter beggars, suppress prostitutes, drive homeless people out of the parish and subdue the mentally ill. Judges thought by combining physical pain with lifelong humiliation would be a powerful deterrent. ‘T’ meant thief, ‘B’ blasphemer, and ‘FA’, false accuser: sometimes an ‘F’ on one cheek and an ‘A’ on the other.
By Paul Asling4 years ago in Criminal
The Victims of Capital Punishment
In 1893, Henry Smith was brutally murdered. Smith was a Black labourer from Paris, Texas, who was accused of murdering and raping a four-year-old girl. The young white girl, Myrtle Vance, was the daughter of a local policeman who had beaten Smith while he was detained in prison.
By Ilana Quinn4 years ago in Criminal
