Essays on Murder

The saying that an apple does not fall far from the tree, is interesting so for Nikolas Cruz, although he was adopted and raised at birth by the gentle, loving Cruz family (Roger and Lynda Cruz), who had no criminal record to their name, he...

This criminal’s case sounded just like the movies, a wealthy successful doctor who murdered his wife. But, for Sam Sheppard, this couldn’t be further from the truth. On December 21st, 1954, Samuel Holmes Sheppard, a 30yrd physician from Cleveland, Ohio was wrongly convicted for the...

Do you know what killing means? According to the Dictionary, killing is defined as “an act of a person causing death”. So, killing is an act of executing one’s person. How about the EJK or extra judicial killings? What does it mean? According to the...

The Murder of Lil Miss was about a murder case that happened in March 25th of 1988 and was solved in 2004, Almost two decades just to solve one murder case is obviously ridiculous but many issues that occurred hindered the process of this case...

Genocide is an intentional action to destroy people of a particular ethnic, national racial or religious group in whole or in part. The word ‘Genocide’ is a combination of Greek word Genos which means ‘race or people’ and the Latin suffix -caedo means act of...

Everyone, at some point in their life, has most likely committed some deviant act. This isn’t as inconceivable as it may seem. Deviance is relative to different societal groups and different cultures. Deviance refers to any violation of norms, which varies significantly. We encounter deviant...

Although deviance is difficult to define due to differences in geography, audience, and status; there are some actions that are universally thought of as deviant. One such action is murder. Although one might argue that murder can be justifiable under circumstances of immediate danger to...

Blood stains, sun glasses and a charger; to the average person these items are completely unrelated but to a forensic scientist these objects can be clues to solving their next case. Forensic scientists help investigations by collecting and analyzing evidence. In recent years, forensic science...

Edgar Allan Poe is an American author that can be considered to be the father of the horror genre with his works having some sort of horror aspect to them. “The Cask of Amontillado” is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s works and it is about...

Law enforcers have a duty to ensure that crime is minimized, if not prevented. One of the contentious debates is whether to continue applying the death penalty as a punishment to murderers. While some people maintain an opinion that capital punishment is brutal, others believe...