Mack Anderson
Ms. Roberts
ELA ___
16 March, 2017
Actions have consequences Dr. Samuel Mudd was a doctor that lived in Washington DC. He was a man that helped John Wilkes Booth get away after assassinating president Abraham lincoln at Ford's theater. I am arguing whether or not Dr. Mudd should have had life in prison. My claim is that Dr. Samuel Mudd did deserve life in prison for his crimes. Dr. Samuel Mudd deserved this punishment because he did these three things. First of all he helped booth with his leg and welcomed him into his home. Right after booth shot the president he jumped onto the stage below and yelled Mack Anderson
Ms. Roberts
ELA ___
16 March, 2017
Actions have consequences Dr. Samuel Mudd was a doctor
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Samuel Mudd was a doctor that lived in Washington DC. He was a man that helped John Wilkes Booth get away after assassinating president Abraham lincoln at Ford's theater. I am arguing whether or not Dr. Mudd should have had life in prison. My claim is that Dr. Samuel Mudd did deserve life in prison for his crimes. Dr. Samuel Mudd deserved this punishment because he did these three things. First of all he helped booth with his leg and welcomed him into his home. Right after booth shot the president he jumped onto the stage below and yelled virginia's state motto,” Sic semper tyrannis”. When he did so he broke his ankle. When he went to Mudd’s farm Dr. Mudd took care of his leg. Second, when the soldiers came to his home to question him he lied to them. When the soldiers came to search his home, and ask him questions about where booth went, he told them a big long story. Then he sent them on a wild chase in the opposite direction from where Booth was really going. Yes he may not have known that Booth was an assassin when he brought him into his home, but when he found out that he was one he did absolutely nothing to stop him from getting away. Infact when he found out he was an assassin he decided it would be better if he was in hiding, so instead of reporting him to to union he provided him with a pine thicket on the farm to hide
At first glance, Booth may have seemed like a magnificent charismatic man. He was remarkably talented and was born from a family of well-known actors. He had luscious black hair that swept across his forehead and the deepest darkest eyes that gleamed with emotion. Yet, behind his angelic ebony eyes laid more nefarious thoughts. Booth was a radical supporter of the Confederacy. He despised the Union and the idea of Robert E. Lee surrendering his troops to the “tyrant” Abraham Lincoln depressed and enthralled him. H...
Shortly after the Civil war had ended and the confederate capital Richmond had fallen, the well known actor John Wilkes Booth decided to kill the President, and with the help of some friends the Vice President and Secretary of State as well. The man George Atzerodt was given the job of killing the Vice President. His plan was to book a room in the same hotel and Vice President Johnson but when the morning of the day he was supposed to commit the assassination came he backed out and could not carry through with the murder. Two other men, Lewis Powell and David Herold, were assigned to kill the Secretary of State William H. Seaward. Powell attempted to shoot him with a revolver but after a misfire attempted to stab Seaward unsuccessfully because of a jaw splint Seaward had on. After the failed assassination Powell and Herold split up. Po...
It is 1865, and the war between the states has just ended. Booth’s rage is peaking as he recalls Union General Ulysses Grant’s participation in the fall of the Confederacy….
Booth assembled his men;the men he met over the years who were filled with southern pride and anger at the new nation. His conspirators in Lincoln’s assassination and escape were: Lewis Powell, David Herold, John Surratt Jr., Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, and George Atzerodt.To prepare, Booth packed his weapons of choice: a .44 caliber pistol and a Rio Grande camp knife just in case. When Abraham and Mary Lincoln arrived at Ford’s Theatre, they were met with loud applause, even though they didn’t send word of their arrival;the crowd never thought that this would be the last night they would see Abraham Lincoln
Booth had got the news that the president would be at the Ford’s theatre. This was great news for john both Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln will be there in the same place. “Booth heard the big news: in just eight hours the man who was the subject of all his hating and plotting would stand on the very stone steps here he now sat. “Booth began to plain his assassination without having to hunt for Lincoln. John had a deep hatred for Lincoln, he had hated the state that our country had been in.
In Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson, the main characters were; John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Leale, Abraham Lincoln (even though he dies.) When John Wilkes Booth (a.k.a Booth) found out that the North had won the Civil War, he felt anger and disgust but he could do nothing. Booth had one plot that the book talked about and that was to kidnap the president and sell him to the leaders of the South but that plot never got put into action. When booth went to Ford's theatre got a letter, Booth worked at the theatre, the letter that said that the President of the United states would be visiting ford's theatre quickly he put a plot into works. First he went to get accomplices and they too would kill someone that night. When the time had come to Booth snuck into the President’s box, not even noticed he pulled out a gun and shot a bullet into the left side and under the left ear of the President's head. That didn’t kill the President, yet. When Booth tried to leave he was stopped by General Henry Rathbone, they had a knife fight while trying to stop both of them from leaving, although Booth got away jumping from the President's box and onto the stage shouting "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Chasing Lincoln's Killer, by James L. Swanson.)
Killing Lincoln Book Review The mystery of how John Wilkes Booth pulled off the most influential and notorious assassination in history is revealed in Killing Lincoln. The author of this book, Bill O’Reilly, built up the plot of the story through vivid historical details and pieced them together like a thriller. He tries to explain all of what happened on one of the most interesting and sad days in American history. Many conspiracies and Civil War ideals are on full display in the book. I agree with most of O’Reilly’s ideas, but there are some that I am not really sure about because of his point of view, like many of the conspiracy theories.
John Wilkes Booth” (145). He continues to make plans for the day with Mrs. Lincoln, unaware
In his novel Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Dr. Victor M. Rios aims to demonstrate the catastrophe of criminalization, the flops of using cruel and humiliating punishments that attempt to “‘correct’ and ‘manage’ marginalized youths” (p. 23), and to display the consequences that these practices will have on the paths that teenagers take. He does this by documenting parts of his experience in observing forty boys of Black and/or Latino who are “heavily affected by criminal justice policies and practice” (p. 8). Then, he clarifies how these flaws impacted the boys in these situations. The aim of this essay is to summarize Dr. Rios’ observations and analyze and critique the primary arguments made in the book.
“How the Death Penalty Saves Lives” According to DPIC (Death penalty information center), there are one thousand –four hundred thirty- eight executions in the United States since 1976. Currently, there are Two thousand –nine hundred –five inmates on death row, and the average length of time on death row is about fifteen years in the United States. The Capital punishment, which appears on the surface to the fitting conclusion to the life of a murder, in fact, a complicated issue that produces no clear resolution.; However, the article states it’s justice. In the article “How the Death Penalty Saves Lives” an author David B. Muhlhausen illustrates a story of Earl Ringo , Jr, brutal murder’s execution on September ,10,
Without any question, most people have a very clear and distinct picture of John Wilkes Booth a in their minds. It is April 1865, the night president Lincoln decides to take a much-needed night off, to attend a stage play. Before anyone knows it a lunatic third-rate actor creeps into Lincoln's box at Ford's theater and kills the president. Leaping to the stage, he runs past a confused audience and flees into the night, only to suffer a coward’s death Selma asset some two weeks later. From the very moment that Booth pulled the trigger, the victors of the Civil War had a new enemy on their hands, and a good concept of whom they were dealing with. A close examination of the facts, however, paint a different view of Booth, a picture that is far less black and white, but a picture with many shades of gray.
Is the death penalty fair? Is it humane? Does it deter crime? The answers to these questions vary depending on who answers them. The issue of capital punishment raises many debates. These same questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as now in the say of Timothy McVeigh. During the time of the Salem witchcraft trials they had the same problem as present society faces. Twenty innocent people had been sentenced to death. It was too late to reverse the decision and the jurors admitted to their mistake. The execution of innocent people is still a major concern for American citizens today.
John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in Bel Air Maryland to parents Mary Ann Holmes and Junius Brutus Booth, who was known around town for his incredible acting skills, unique personality and heavy drinking. John was one of 10 children. He was raised on a farm plantation which was run by slaves. When he was young, John attended the Milton Boarding School for Boys, and at a later age St. Timothy's Hall, which he attended off and on. Starting early on in his life, he was always described as being incredibly handsome. During the 1850's, he joined what is known as the “No-Nothing Party” which seeked to expel immigration into the United States. Booth's support for slavery became increasingly evident when he joined a Virginia Company which contributed to the capture and execution of slave John Brown, who raided Harper's Ferry. Booth was also a secret agent for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
...shment: A Defense,” an article in The Death Penalty: Pro and Con written by Ernest Van Den Haag , shares this “Abolitionists appear to value the life of a convicted murderer or, at least, his non-execution, more highly than they value the lives of the innocent victims who might be spared by deterring prospective murderers”(3)
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted.” - Benjamin Franklin. When Benjamin Franklin said this, he was speaking in 1789 promoting the abolition of slavery so long before the civil war. He was one of the many abolitionists that had been fighting for freedom years before the main events of the abolition movement during the abolition movement. Dred Scott was served wrongly by slave owning judges. The Abolition Movement and The Dred Scott decision are about people standing up for others being treated wrongly.