Leo Frank, also known as Leo Max Frank, born April 17th, 1884 in Cuero Texas was the factory superintendent who was convicted to the murder of Mary Phagan. This accusation leads to the lynching of Leo Frank. Being raised in Brooklyn New York, he earned a B.S. from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1906. After an apprenticeship in Germany with the Pencil manufacturer Frank moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work at the National Pencil Company. Marrying Lucille Selif and living harmoniously with his wife’s well off family until his death (Surrain).
August 26th 1913 Mary Phagan was killed. Her murder shocked the city, the discovery of the thirteen year old girl in the basement of an Atlanta pencil factory where she had gone to collect
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Telling the jurors about how her daughter woke up and had breakfast, then going to the pencil factory to pick up her pay. Later that day she identified her daughter at the scene of the crime. After Fannie Colman, Newt Lee provided the most important testimony of the trial’s opening day. Lee testified that on the evening of the murder he received a call from Frank asking if things were okay at the plant. Prosecutor Dorsey and defense attorney Rosser fought each other to a rough draw over the several detectives who took the stand. Rosser blew a great chance to explode the prosecution’s theory that the murder took place in front of Frank’s office and the body was moved to the basement. The most anticipated prosecution witness, Jim Conley the prosecutions’ stand stood mainly on his testimony. According to Conley, Frank said “I wanted to be with the little girl, and she refused me, and I struck her and I guess I stuck her to hard and she fell and hit her head against something, and I don’t know how she got hurt” Mary Phagan was dead and Conley clamed Frank said “there would be money in it for me” if he helped dispose of the body. The murder notes were Frank’s idea, Conley testified, “Frank dictated the notes to me”. The defense had several goals, first they hoped to cast serious doubt on the prosecution’s time line. Second, the defense planned to produce a series of character witnesses who, they …show more content…
Frank was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Mary Phagan, but his sentence was eventually commuted the night before he was due to be killed. During the last days in office as the governor of Georgia, John Slaton commuted Frank’s death sentence to life imprisonment. This enraged Georgians many of who argued they should take the law into their own hands. “With military precision the men began their work, cutting telephone lines, overpowering guards, handcuffing the warden, and finally moving directly to Frank’s dormitory, where the prisoner was roused form his sleep and quickly hustled outside,” Oney writes in his 1985 article on Frank. “They were Marietta’s leading citizens, and they acted premeditatedly and without passion.” After driving over one-hundred miles towards Marietta, Frank’s captors hanged him form a tree and left him to die. Oney reports, that thousands of people eventually came to stare at his hanging body before someone removed it. (Jacobs) In 1986 the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles pardoned Frank stating “without attempting to address the question of guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state’s failed to protect the person of Leo M. Frank and thereby preserve his opportunity for continued legal appeal of his conviction, and in recognition of the states frailer to bring his killers to justice and as an constitutional and
In 1836, the gruesome death of a prostitute encaptivated the public eye and began a newspaper frenzy that centered on a morbid fixation of the life and death of Helen Jewett. Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett pieces together the facts of Helen's life and death in an attempt to describe gender inequality in America by giving a meticulous account of life in the 1830s. (Insert small biography) Around three in the morning on Sunday, April 10, 1836 Rosina Townsend, the madam of the brothel, was spurred from her bed at the south end of Thomas St by a man knocking on the front door.
1) On August 28, 1986, a woman named Queen Madge White was found dead in her home in Rome, Georgia. She was a 79-year-old widow and was found to be beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death. Her home had also been burglarized. Timothy Foster, an 18-year-old black male, confessed to the crime and officers recovered some of the stolen items from Foster’s home. The State subsequently indicted him for malice, murder, and burglary and the jury that was selected convicted him of capital murder and assigned the death penalty.
When Paul Bieger was the lawyer for the defense he had to imply that Frank Mansion was crazy or insane because the other three defense charges could not be used in this case. But if he could imply that Frank Mansion was insane during the time when he committed the crime there was a chance that Paul Bieger could win the case. But Paul had to prove that the reason Bieger went insane during that time was because he just heard news about his wife getting raped by Quill. Frank was not able to constraint or anything other than getting payback for what Quill did. On the prosecutor side the lawyer Mitch Lodwick had to prove that during the time Mr. Mansion had time to deliberate planning, premeditation, or malice.
The Evil that Follows During World War II, millions of lives were claimed by the Holocaust; over six million Jews were killed by the Nazis because of Hitler 's hatred towards the Jews. One family, The Franks, were affected by this unnecessary hatred. The Franks were a total of four people, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, and Anne Frank. The Franks lived a normal life in Germany but decided to move as Jews were given less and less freedom because of Hitler 's laws to oppress the Jews. Even when the Frank Family left Germany to the Netherlands the Nazis invaded there and they were in the same situation once again.
Henry Wirz was perhaps one of the most controversial people involved in the Civil War. Many people saw him as a monster, the man responsible for the numerous deaths at the Andersonville Prison, while others thought he was just a scapegoat for the higher-ups, the man blamed for their mistakes. The only man hung for Civil War crimes, Henry Wirz was charged with the slaughter of over 13,000 of the prisoners who were kept in the Andersonville Prison. But where did his story begin?
Good day, I’m here to prove Brother Armstrong is innocent in the case of Doodle Armstrong's death. Doodle Armstrong was found dead by Brother, he said that they were running home and Doodle was running but was far behind him. When Brother stop to wait for Doodle he never caught up to Brother. Brother went back for Doodle and that's when he found Doodle lying on the floor bleeding from his mouth and neck dead. There is no evidence to prove that Brother Armstrong is guilty we have to take things into consideration his age, what really happened that day, and what has Brother done for Doodle .
In the court hearing Bryan brought up a case were Darrow was the defense attorney for two young wealthy educated young men from Chicago Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered fourteen year-old Bobby Frank. Darrow was able to convince the jury in that case not to convict both Leopold and Loeb to the death penalty due to outside influences such as evolution and the influence of Nietzsche’s inelastic ideas that they read while in college. The case of Leopold and Loeb was seen by critics in the nation as “the moral wasteland created by families with too much money, young men with too much education and not enough simple morality grounded in religion” Parrish
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery in the United States, had been in effect since before the turn of the century, yet African Americans still faced prejudice in many parts of the country, especially the South. In March 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Alabama and accused of homelessness, disorder, and, later, rape, after two white women testified against them. The series of trials, testimonies, and decisions that followed all contained core similarities, but differentiated greatly from each other overall. The initial trial, held in 1931, served only to show the predetermined prejudice against the Scottsboro boys because of the color of their skin.
Georgie Milton did something not many people have the guts to do, he took the life of his best friend to save him from the torture that awaited him, but, he took the life of another man and he took this life with the intention of murder. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there is no difference between euthanasia and murder; and to this indictment, George Milton has pleaded not guilty. If I am to prove him otherwise, you must find him so. Lennie Small has been described to us as a caring giant. He had no bad intentions; and it is fair to say that our witnesses have provided us with sufficient evidence to support my argument.
The constellation I have chosen for this assignment is Leo Major. I 've chosen it mostly because of previous studies I have done on it. Leo, being one of twelve zodiacs, is located in between Cancer (to the west) and Virgo (to the east). Its name originates from the Latin root for "lion". The ancient Greeks represented it as the Nemean lion that was killed by Hercules as on of his "twelve labors".
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to discuss the murder of John Wright. On November 15, Mr. Wright was found in his bed with a rope around his neck, presumably strangled to death. His body was discovered by his wife supposedly and did not bother to notify to the local authorities. At eight o'clock in the morning, Mr. Hale went to look for Mr. Wright and found Minnie, Mr. Wright’s wife, sitting in a rocking chair inside of the house. Mr. Hale asked Minnie for her husband and she stated that John Wright was dead in the bedroom.
Grant Anderson Mrs.Monk History Through Media 13 October 2015 Frank “The Prime Minister” Costello Frank “The Prime Minister” Costello was born in Italy on January 26, 1891. Costello arrived to New York City with his Immigrant Caribbean Parents and grew up in East Harlem. Like many other immigrants and soon to be mobsters his father had been there for a couple years finding opportunity for work.
Did She deserve the death penalty Did Mary deserve to die. In 1864 the surreal assassination of president Lincoln and, the near fatal attempt for homicide on the Secretary of state William Seward. The plot that killed the president was connected to Mary Surratt and her son John. Mary had a boarding house in Washington city.
A Perfect Crime, A Perfect Defense On May 21, 1924 Bobby Franks is abducted, and stabbed in the head several times with a chisel. It is the result of seven months of planning a “perfect crime” by nineteen year old Nathan Leopold and eighteen year old Richard Loeb (Leopold and Loeb). These young men were represented in court by Mr. Clarence Darrow, a distinguished attorney known for only losing one out of over a hundred death penalty cases (Clarence Darrow). Fittingly, Leopold and Loeb were facing capital punishment.
All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by