Joseph Trueblood
This case, like the last, involves an individual who was sentenced to death in Indiana. However, this case is very different from the previous one in many ways. I also found a lot of misinformation and confusion with this case when doing my research that I had to figure out. I find this case interesting in part because it is a case in which the defendant pleaded guilty, apparently without any sort of plea deal offered by the state. Now, doing is not unusual if the defendant is adamant, as some are, that they are guilty and either feel they deserve the death penalty or they claim they would rather be executed than spend the rest of their life in prison. Neither seems to be the case here with Trueblood although he claims that at least with the first guilty plea (he did this twice at separate times) he did so on the advice of his attorney saying that he would avoid the death penalty. Now, prosecutors will quite often offer plea deals to defendants to avoid a trial. In my o...