Jodi Arias: Who Kills Guilty?

The article, ‘Judge: Cop Killer Brandon Daniel competent can dismiss lawyers’ published in July of 2015, talks about Daniel’s case—overall punishment. This article is about a twenty-six year old man, Brandon Daniel, who murdered an Austin, Texas police officer. The police officer, Jaime Padron, received a call involving shoplifting at a Wal-Mart in the north side of town. Both, Brandon Daniel and Padron were wrestling on the floor when the officer was shot dead. In this situation, this murder is considered capital murder. When an individual is sentenced with capital murder, they are sentenced execution or in other words the death penalty. Texas is known for having the highest number of death penalties since 1976. However in this case,

accounts of sexual abuse,But all the evidence of the case is pointing otherwise. Such as the

There is evidence that Casey Anthony lived an immature lifestyle for a mother, but there is not enough evidence to prove that she is guilty for the murder of her daughter. In order for one to understand that Casey Anthony is not guilty for the murder of her daughter, they must take a look at her background, the evidence of the murder, the trial, and the public’s reaction to the case. Along with these significant points, they must ask themselves the same question Jose Baez once wondered, “Why did George Anthony try to kill himself?”. The clues that point to Casey as the murderer equally point right back to George.

When one is guilty, it means that he or she is “culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing” or, “having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty.” If someone is charged as guilty, they have broken a law or performed an unjust or immoral act to deserve punishment. However, this does not mean that through reasonable suspicion that an individual can be determined as guilty. It means that “a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. In other words, the prosecution must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, each essential element of the crime charged.” In other words, a particular person must be proven guilty of a crime through proof and evidence. In the story provided by Serial, Sarah Koenig narrates the case of the murder of Hae Min Lee. Seventeen years ago, on January 13, Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, was reported missing. Weeks later, her body is found and the cause of her death was determined to be manual strangulation. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Musud Syed, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life plus thirty years in prison. The case against him was mainly based on the story of one witness, Jay Wilds. Now, past reporter and journalist, Sarah Koenig is reopening this case to find out what really happened. Through documents, police interrogations, testimonies, and interviews, she collects evidence to look for the answer.

There has been a case that has been going on for nineteen moths about a person named Dylann Roof who commuted inhumane act by murdering nine African American church goers due to his racial hatred towards the black community. After a lot of investigation the jury of six whites and three black gave their decision on him last month and he was found guilty of thirty three counts. For this reason the jury decides a death penalty on him even though the victims’ family forgave him. Although, it was certain that the Jury was going to lean toward the death penalty because he didn’t have any witnesses to help him defend and most of all he decided to be a lawyer for himself, which made difficult of proving himself innocent or even reduce the penalty

Jodi Arias should receive the death penalty for violently murdering Travis Alexander. Arias planned on murdering Alexander when she traveled to Arizona. Arias brutally murdered a man who did not want to be in a relationship with her and then Arias lied about it. Alexander’s family and friends would like to see her receive the death penalty. Arias also said she would like the death penalty in an interview. Arias has been manipulative and deceiving through the trial and she made statements that were defamatory to Alexander’s character. She is not remorseful for what she has done.

The O.J. Simpson case was a very publicised case and is still talked about today. OJ was charged with the murder of his ex Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. This review will go through the investigative process, and its major elements, that was undertaken throughout this case. It will discuss major flaws and weaknesses in the investigation and how they affected the case. It will then go on to give suggestion for ways in which these investigative failures could have been overcome, and how these failures could be prevented in future homicide investigations much alike this one. It will lastly discuss the role of the media in influencing the outcome of this case. This review will provide insight on this legendary case, and overall suggest how justice could have been served, and should be served in the future.

Many people have been sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit. Innocent people are put to death more often than people would assume. The results from “a recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capital trials contained serious errors” (Arguments), which could eventually lead to a potentially innocent person being put to death if the error of the case was not caught before the time of execution. If the error is caught and the person is proven innocent while they are still on death row, they will be released and free to go back to their normal lives outside of prison, but not all falsely accused people are that lucky. Even

The topic of capital punishment is a hot one. Human beings are capable of doing some monstrous things. For a victim of a heinous crime, sometimes the only justice seems to be an eye for an eye. And most of the time those victims look to our court systems to provide that justice. But is death the answer? I believe that with human fallibility and the fallibility of our court system as variables, that a sentence that cannot be overturned should not be passed down in any case, especially when that sentence is as irreversible as death. In an editorial from USA Today found on deathpenaltyinfo.org, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is quoted as saying, “If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed” (England). The author goes on to say that O’Connor’s statement is supported by “increasingly disturbing data” and gives us some statistics to chew on. The most disturbing: Roughly two-thirds of all capital convictions are overturned on appeal. The problem lies in the fact that attorneys are not available to all defendants, and the public defender’s office is swamped to the point of no return, making them less efficient on each case. How many innocent men have fallen through the cracks? Maggie Clark goes one step further in her article on USAToday.com by giving us statistics of all wrongful convictions, capital or otherwise. “Since 1989, 1241 people have been wrongly convicted and later cleared of all charges based on

Georgia, one can easily make the statement that the taking of a human life in return for another does not agree with the standards of decency of our maturing society. Justice Brennan goes further to state that “death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality…” (Brennan 32). This argument is one of the major summarizing points of Brennan’s argument – the death penalty is incredibly severe and irreversibly final. According to an article in the USA Today by columnist Jacqueline Blais, 117 people have been freed from death row on account of innocence (Blais). This figure is astonishing when one considers the innocents who slip through the cracks in states like Texas, where the average death row inmate has just ten years to prove his or her innocence from behind bars.

For anyone living in Texas, it is common to hear about convicted criminals being sentenced to death. Is justice being served? When someone has committed a heinous murder, justice must prevail. But that ideal becomes harder to achieve as we scale the moral high ground and look all around, from behind the jail cell bars to the crushed life of the murdered victim.

For example: the US has a prison of approximately 2.2 million but only 3,000 are condemned to death (amnesty). Even is all of these prisoners on death row were to be executed, it would make no “discerning difference” in making the society safer or even in the entire prison population. Also, the death penalty makes mistakes by giving the condemned unfair trials, and just looking at the crimes he/she has committed. One of the most controversial cases in the history of death penalty was the case of Phillip Workman. Phillip Workman, aged 53, was executed by lethal injection in Tennessee on May 9, 2007. Despite crucial evidence in which a key state witness lied at his trial and that Lieutenant Ronald Oliver, the police officer that Phillip Workman was convicted of killing, may have been accidentally shot by a fellow officer (amnesty). Even though there was evidence on behalf of him, the jury still processed the execution by giving him death row for 25 years and then the execution.

Pro death penalty advocates believe that the approximate 23 people who were inaccurately sentenced isn't a considerable amount (11). It is worth that risk to know that many other individuals are safe. It is a a prevention of future offenses of the same kind. Who are the people to say that they will never escape or even harm one of our government officials. The criminal could harm other inmates, or even their prison guards. In a sense it is a self defense system. This was wonderfully stated in Robert E. Crowe's statement in the book The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints. "I urge capital punishment for murder not because I believe that society wishes to take the life of a murderer but because society does not wish to lose it's own." (10).

On October 12, 2011 Laura Webb-Elody and seven others were killed in the Seal Beach Salon Meritage (Webb, 2017). Laura’s mother was also shot, but she did not die. The man went to the Salon where his ex-wife Michelle Fournier worked right beside Laura. He felt the need to punish Michelle so he shot her. He referred to the other victims as “collateral damage”. When he was done in the salon, he went to his car and felt the need to shoot the guy who happened to park next to him. People that saw this happen got his license plate number and then called 911. He was then pulled over and arrested. He still had possession of his three guns that he killed these people with, but he did confess to the crime. Bethany Webb wanted the man that shot her sister to sit in prison for the rest of his life so that he could suffer and think about what he had done. There are several reasons for why the death penalty is not a good solution for punishment. It is not cost effective, it does not allow the individual to sit and think about what they have done, and too many innocent people are killed because of capital punishment. The death penalty should be abolished in the United States Of America. If an individual commits a serious crime or murder they should suffer, which means life in prison.

Capital punishment is systematically flawed due to the lack of proper jury judgment. Through the course of time hundreds of blameless citizens have been wrongly convicted for crimes they never committed. The article “The Innocent Executed?” by The Death Penalty Information Center speaks on how these cases are handled. “There is no way to tell how many of the more than 1,450 people executed since 1976 may have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to cases where clients can still be saved.” (The Innocent Executed? 2017). This information subsequently verifies how the faults of the jury are condoned and ignored. This procedure of this unjust jury judgement should not be acceptable in the eyes of congressmen. People are