How Does Jeffrey Dahmer Deserve A Court Trial

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This court case involves a serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, convicted of killing about 17 men between 1978 and 1991 (Jeffrey Dahmer - Full Trial - Serial Killer, 2012). The jury is composed of seven men and seven women who were to determine if Jeffrey Dahmer was guilty of the multiple murders. The jury begins by ordering for a three week sanity test to determine if Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he committed the acts. The three week trial had testimonies from the police and psychiatrists who sought to determine how Dahmer would have sex with corpses, drug and even kill his victims. The session begins by getting testimonies from the two sides which begins from the lawyers defending the victims. Jeffrey Dahmer sits beside his lawyers who also make some testaments perhaps trying to get pardon for him. Although about 15 of his victims were black, the jury composed of ten white people and two blacks which seemingly raised racial tension in the court. Jeffrey Dahmer lawyer, Gerald Boyle begins by giving a …show more content…

In some case, the person would pour acid in the victim’s head and rape them while at it. Jeffrey Dahmer obviously enjoyed torturing his victims. After killing them, Jeffrey Dahmer would eat the vital organs of their body such as the heart and the liver or make sandwiches with them. One of his former friends further recounted how he was uncertain of a sandwich that he was seemingly given by Jeffrey Dahmer. The court also herd that after killing the victims, Jeffrey Dahmer would keep their skulls for pleasure. He would on only destroy the skulls by burning them after he was done and satisfied with their

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