True Crime Stories

I made a vow this year that I would take every Sunday as my day to work on this blog so that I spent more consistent time working on it.  I have missed a few over the last month due to other things that I have had going on.  There have been times in which I just did not have the motivation or the desire for whatever reason but I would muddle through and made myself post at least one. Today is not one of those days.  I woke up refreshed and ready to go and I am hoping for it to be a rather productive day. I have decided once again to do a story that is local for my current area. I have done several of these in the recent past for a few reasons.  One of those reason is that I have a very good local website in which I can use to obtain newspaper articles.  While I definitely like using these articles I have to admit that I have often found them also a hindrance. Depending on the crime there could be hundreds and hundreds of articles (this case is j...

One can hardly argue that every person that has ever been executed has in fact been guilty.  There have been too many instances over the years, most recently the case of twelve year old George Stinney who was executed in 1944 and posthumously exonerated seventy years later, of this.  This should not necessarily be a surprise to anyone for many reason.  For one we cannot ignore the racism and bias that went on, and some argue continues to go on, in our justice system.  In Stinney's case he was a obviously very young African American who was convicted of murdering two young white girls.  In cases such as his, as well as those like the case of Joe Arridy who was executed in 1939 and exonerated in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken actions to prevent these executions.  It is now illegal to execute someone who's crime was committed before the age of eighteen or anyone who is officially considered mentally challenged.  In the the Arridy case it was ...