Murder

Trifles revolves around the haunting and evocative conception of murder in the everyday society that we as humans have implemented. The hot button debate over the justification of murder has been a question left unanswered for years and has left people wondering the plausibility of this heinous act. The act of murder is a complex and convoluted argument and when looked at it from both sides of the spectrum, the limelight of whether murder can have any justification seems to become quite obvious.…

There are multiple ways to compare and contrast “An Invitation to a Murder” and “The Dying Detective”. Both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Josh Pachter presented various examples of situational irony. Once revealed that the poison was actually medicine needed to sustain the life of Mr. Abbott, the plot was advanced; similarly, when Sherlock Holmes revealed that the illness he was experiencing was an act, the plot was advanced. Both major examples of situational irony being revealed were the climaxes…

Murder has been going on for centuries across the United States ranging from voluntary and involuntary manslaughter to first and second-degree murder. While some killings may be intentional, and others may be accidents, people are constantly attempting to explain why murder occurs by using theories. According to Merriam Webster online dictionary, a theory is “a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action.” There are many theories that can be used in an attempt to…

be linked to mass murders. According to this article, mass murders are usually lonely White males in there 30’s or 40’s that are single, separated or divorced. These men, according to the article, have a history of frustration, a target, and/or are mentally ill. Other traits of a mass murder can also include, coming from a dysfunctional family and an absent father. In mass murders, there is almost always a motive. I believe that the most important traits to explain mass murder is being a…

Hi everyone! I am here today to talk to you about the crime First Degree Murder. The Queensland Criminal Code Act of 1899 in section 302 defines First Degree Murder as: a) If the offender intends to cause the death of the person killed or that of some other person or if the offender intends to do to the person killed or to some other person some grievous bodily harm. For First degree murder, it has the highest murder charge. If convicted, the correlating penalizations associated with the…

LYSIAS I.22-27: MAKING A MURDERER JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE WORD COUNT (QUOTED GREEK TEXT IN FOOTNOTES): 1,078. The pivotal murder scene of Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes, described in 1.22-27, is one of the most carefully constructed passages in the speech. Andrew Wolpert praised it in 2001 as a “rhetorical masterpiece in self-fashioning”. Euphiletos, the speech giver, defends himself against the charge of murdering Eratosthenes by arguing that it was a justifiable homicide; according to…

Welcome back to our list of the most ridiculous murders of all time. Or at least the most ridiculous murders in recent history. We covered half of them in part one, but they get even stranger here in part two. Read below for more. Number Five: The Murder of Sandra Neace Stanley Neace was recognized for having a terrible anger problem, as alleged by his own landlord. In fact, it was his anger problem which led the landlord to being the process of evicting Stanley. But before Stanley could be…

The Murder of JonBenét On the night of Christmas everyone was nestled snug in their beds in the Ramsey house- that is, except JonBenét. The six-year old pageant queen was supposedly sleeping in her bed. The morning after JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her return. Later that day JonBenét was found in the wine cellar. Her skull was fractured, she was strangled with a garrote made with one of Patsy’s paint brushes, and she had been sexually assaulted. Two…

was troubled by his eye so he plans to kill him. He stalks and then kills the man and hides the body under three floorboards. The police come and the tenant confesses his crime. Premeditated murder is planning, plotting, or deliberately doing something. The suspect is guilty because he premeditated the murder with caution. The suspect is guilty of premeditating, because he practiced how he was going to pull off the crime for seven days; the tenant mutilated and concealed the body after he…

women, prostitutes. What made these murders peculiar? They were all strangled, by forceful-throat penetration, stripped of their clothes left in the night for the next pedestrian to find the cold lifeless body. Not just in the river or near the river but in the town as well. There were eight possible victims, only six confirmed by the killer nicknamed "Jack the Stripper", four possible suspects, with Mungo Ireland as the lead suspect in the "Hammersmith Nude Murder case." Sadly this case was…