Aileen Wuornos: Bloodthirsty Killer

She was also pressured by police into lying and saying that she was in the cottage at the time of the death of Meredith Kercher. Amanda even faced some consequences for not lying to the police and give a false confession. For not giving into the pressure by police Amanda Knox wasted four years of her life in prison. Later on Amanda was tricked into signing a document given by her interrogators stating that she did commit the crime. A case study on Amanda Knox by Steven Sehterie, a former student at USC found that:‘’Knox signed a document typed out by her interrogators.

Edmund Kemper/David Berkowitz The murder cases of Edmund Kemper and David Berkowitz have many differences and a surprising number of similarities. These two cases can be compared and contrasted by looking at how they both had a violent childhood, they both used a gun to kill their victims, and they were both found guilty on many counts of murder. Edmund Kemper Edmund Kemper was a serial killer that was born on December 18th, 1948 in Burbank California. During his early years of his life, Kemper was a troubled child.

Tom was accused of raping a white woman who was Mayella Ewell, Mayella said he raped her while he was helping her with chores. She later on tells the readers that it was false allegations. The reason why she didn 't tell the truth at her first trial was because, Mayella was afraid of being embarrassed because she kissed a black male. She rather have an innocent man get charged with a crime than that. “However, Robinson was transferred from the state prison to Maycomb 's county jail on Saturday, two days before he stood trial on Monday, and Atticus had to defend him against a lynch mob”.

For example, saying that Lizzie Borden killed her parents makes sense when he/ she says it, but there is a lot of evidence to prove she has done it. From the documents read, they report that a girl named Eli Bence saw Lizzie asking for a deadly poison called prussic acid, the night before the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden (Linder, 2004). Honestly, who else would she ask for poison? She totally killed her own parents!

Abby Borden, killed first, was struck with an axe or hatchet-like object 19 times, and Andrew Borden was struck 10 or 11 times. The first blow would have been enough to kill both victims. The main suspect was Andrew 's youngest daughter Lizzie. During questioning Lizzie gave confusing or contradicting answers as to her alibi. However, she had been given doses of morphine to help calm her nerves after the murders of her father and his wife.

I believe Glaspell used Mrs. Wright in Trifles to show the other side of the story. After murdering her husband Mrs. Wright is helped by the other women to keep from being convicted. 2. There are many ways for the played to be viewed as feminist. The inequalities in this play are very clear.

Michael Myers’, the protagonist of the 1978 movie Halloween, reputation is formed at the age of 6, when he murders his sister on the night of Halloween. While being shifted for a court date, Myers escaped and began killing more people. The notion of hysteria plays a role in the film because everyone is scared of Michael Myers. The fear of him adds to the suspense of when he will appear in front of the characters and the audience.

Faulkner’s story demonstrates totally different plot: there is an own main character, her mental disorder and its consequences for the society. In the case of Emily Grierson the problem appeared to be in the inherited disorder, as “people in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last” (Faulkner 4); and the citizens’ attitude. Miss Emily felt a pressure from people because of own origins and behavior; and these conditions finally made her to kill Homer Barron, an only potential opportunity for marriage after her father’s death. After the crime Miss Emily was not able to get rid of the body and continued to live with it until her own death. It looked like Baron became the only victim of the character’s madness here.

The Not-So-Good, the Bad and the Ugly Hearted “In the midst of life, we are in death”, is more than true in And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie where unlucky convicts are tricked into coming to an island of murder, deceit and guilt but out of the 10 summoned, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard and Dr. William Armstrong are the most deserving. Vera is a cold-blooded murderess who planned a kid 's death for money, this makes her extraordinarily evil. Lombard left 21 people for death - on purpose - just because they were from a different origin and had different skin color. Lastly, the doctor knowingly and willingly operated drunk, killing a woman on the operating table.

Moreover, a girl named Maria committed suicide after being ordered by the Panchayat to be raped in revenge for her father’s attempt to rape a minor. These cases unfold that under the cloak of justice and local customs, women, and children are treated as a tool of compensation. This form of structural violence has got passive acceptance among marginalized groups. However, these cases resulted in huge outcry by the women and human right activists resulting in parliament passing

She was sentenced to death, and the story changed. She confessed her grisly sin, all because of money, all because of selfishness. Death by lethal injection. Aileen didn’t have an easy life from the start.

Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men, publicly believed to be the very first serial killer in the United States. She was convicted for six of the murders and sentenced to death, thus meeting her end through execution by lethal injection on October 9, 2002 in the state of Florida. Aileen had been subjected to horrific tortures as a young girl. Her father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her birth while her mother was an immature teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother, leaving them to be raised by their grandparents. Being brought up by their grandparents, Wuornos found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather.

First of all Griselda was born and raised in a country that was at war with itself. She witnessed violence on a daily basis. Her mother abused her as well, she had a terrible childhood and that required her to be a very dangerous person. Ross on the other hand lived in the United States he had opportunities to become a legitimate person. What started his path of dealing drugs and creating his empire was the fact that he couldn 't read.

Mary Flora Bell was born May 26, 1957 strangled to death two little boys in Scotswood, Newcastle in a rural inner-city suburb. She grew up in an unstable home to her single parent mother Betty nee McCricket a prostitute who was often absent from the home. Her mother tried to kill her by feeding her pills as treats Mary endured sexual abuse her mother forced her at early age of four to engage in sexual acts with men. Family members recalled numerous counts how Betty had attempted to kill Mary and cover it up by making her death look accidently when she was younger.

The movie Double Jeopardy is a Hollywood film about the story of a woman who was tried and convicted for the murder of her husband. The husband however, had staged his own death, so when the wife, Libby, is released on probation she plans to kill him because she supposedly would not be able to be convicted again. This is not how the case would play out in the real criminal justice system. In actuality, Libby would be tried and reconvicted for the murder because these are two distinctly different crimes. There has been much precedence set by the Supreme Court related to the Double Jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment and multiple of the policies set forth by these decisions prevent the plot of this movie from being plausible.