They wanted Deborah’s unborn child and nothing was going to stop them from taking it. She already had three healthy, beautiful children and it wasn’t fair. They had been trying to have a baby for years and there she was pregnant with her fourth.
“Just give us the baby when he is born, that’s all we ask! We are willing to pay you for him, two thousand dollars cash!” the man yelled at her while he had a gun pointed at her, they began to grow impatient.
“No! Please, don’t do this! You don’t have to do this. Just leave and no one will know! Please! Just go!” she pleaded with a shaky voice. Her three children sat in the next room listening to their mother beg for mercy.
She wasn’t complying so there was no other choice. A gunshot echoed through the apartment and was followed by another one shortly after, but it wasn’t over yet. Charles Montaldo, an expert in criminal behaviour and private investigator, reports that the three assailants extracted and kidnapped Deborah Evan’s unborn child, leaving her to die. The three began to panic and were in a hurry to get out of the apartment, but they had to get rid of any possible witnesses. The three searched the apartment in attempt to locate the other children: 10-year-old Samantha, 7-year-old Joshua and 19-month-old Jordan. As soon as they found Samantha the three deemed her as a potential witness, she was shown no mercy. They kidnapped Joshua, but later realised that he could be a witness, he was poisoned, strangled, stabbed, and left in an alley only blocks from where the three took refuge. Jordan was left in the apartment where his mother and sister laid lifeless on the floor. The assailants were Deborah 's ex-boyfriend, Laverne Ward, his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, and his cousin’s boyfriend. They were all caught and convicted, Ward received life in prison, as did Williams. William’s boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, however, was sentenced to death, but his sentence was later commuted to life without parole. There are cases similar to the Evan’s case in which the guilty have committed crimes that are deemed so cruel and inhumane that a punishment less than the death penalty would simply be a miscarriage of justice. The death penalty should stand as is for reasons such as; convicts facing life in prison live comfortable lives, to bring justice and incapacitation, and to let the punishment fit the crime committed. The first compelling point to consider is that many inmates live rather comfortable lives inside the walls of a prison. When a criminal is sentenced to life in prison for a vicious crime they are placed under protective custody so they feel safe. If they are not in protective care they live amongst other inmates, able to interact and socialize. Robert Blecker, a professor at New York Law School and a nationally known expert on the death penalty, tells of his personal studies and finding while inside prison walls. “The reality of …show more content…
Barry Scheck, the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, goes on to say that the when looking at the costs and benefits of the death penalty the same conclusion is reached, either way the inmate will die inside the prison. He also factors in the possibility of executing an innocent person. These statements are true, however, many people who prefer life without parole do not fully understand the life these inmates will have. They falsely imagine that sadistic killers experience punishments worse than death. Many people have a twisted view and understanding of how a prison runs and how these murders are treated …show more content…
Mcadams believes that African-American offenders are less likely to receive the death penalty. He believes that the reason race hardly plays a factor when dealing with the death penalty is due to the fact that the vast majority of crimes committed by African-Americans take place in the central cities of large metropolitan areas. In those jurisdictions many prosecutors are heavily burdened and are less likely to accept a capital case. Also, many of the people on juries, within the same jurisdiction, happen to also be African-American, which plays a major role in the
“Just give us the baby when he is born, that’s all we ask! We are willing to pay you for him, two thousand dollars cash!” the man yelled at her while he had a gun pointed at her, they began to grow impatient.
“No! Please, don’t do this! You don’t have to do this. Just leave and no one will know! Please! Just go!” she pleaded with a shaky voice. Her three children sat in the next room listening to their mother beg for mercy.
She wasn’t complying so there was no other choice. A gunshot echoed through the apartment and was followed by another one shortly after, but it wasn’t over yet. Charles Montaldo, an expert in criminal behaviour and private investigator, reports that the three assailants extracted and kidnapped Deborah Evan’s unborn child, leaving her to die. The three began to panic and were in a hurry to get out of the apartment, but they had to get rid of any possible witnesses. The three searched the apartment in attempt to locate the other children: 10-year-old Samantha, 7-year-old Joshua and 19-month-old Jordan. As soon as they found Samantha the three deemed her as a potential witness, she was shown no mercy. They kidnapped Joshua, but later realised that he could be a witness, he was poisoned, strangled, stabbed, and left in an alley only blocks from where the three took refuge. Jordan was left in the apartment where his mother and sister laid lifeless on the floor. The assailants were Deborah 's ex-boyfriend, Laverne Ward, his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, and his cousin’s boyfriend. They were all caught and convicted, Ward received life in prison, as did Williams. William’s boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, however, was sentenced to death, but his sentence was later commuted to life without parole. There are cases similar to the Evan’s case in which the guilty have committed crimes that are deemed so cruel and inhumane that a punishment less than the death penalty would simply be a miscarriage of justice. The death penalty should stand as is for reasons such as; convicts facing life in prison live comfortable lives, to bring justice and incapacitation, and to let the punishment fit the crime committed. The first compelling point to consider is that many inmates live rather comfortable lives inside the walls of a prison. When a criminal is sentenced to life in prison for a vicious crime they are placed under protective custody so they feel safe. If they are not in protective care they live amongst other inmates, able to interact and socialize. Robert Blecker, a professor at New York Law School and a nationally known expert on the death penalty, tells of his personal studies and finding while inside prison walls. “The reality of …show more content…
Barry Scheck, the co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, goes on to say that the when looking at the costs and benefits of the death penalty the same conclusion is reached, either way the inmate will die inside the prison. He also factors in the possibility of executing an innocent person. These statements are true, however, many people who prefer life without parole do not fully understand the life these inmates will have. They falsely imagine that sadistic killers experience punishments worse than death. Many people have a twisted view and understanding of how a prison runs and how these murders are treated …show more content…
Mcadams believes that African-American offenders are less likely to receive the death penalty. He believes that the reason race hardly plays a factor when dealing with the death penalty is due to the fact that the vast majority of crimes committed by African-Americans take place in the central cities of large metropolitan areas. In those jurisdictions many prosecutors are heavily burdened and are less likely to accept a capital case. Also, many of the people on juries, within the same jurisdiction, happen to also be African-American, which plays a major role in the