Persuasive Essay Why Do People Kill

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I selected my essential question, “Why do people kill?”, because it makes me question why people do it. Does it bring them joy? Does it make them feel better about themselves? Do they not like the person? How do they pick their victims? Well in this essay I guess you will find out. My initial answer was that the reason I believe people kill is that, they don’t like that person, they don’t like the person’s race or their ethnicity. The three case studies I will be talking about will be: What goes on in a killers mind, do we kill because of our ancestors, and do people kill because of a person’s race? The first case study I will be talking about is, what goes on in a person’s mind when they kill or after they kill. This case study can help me answer my essential question because it talks about what goes on in a killer’s mind and that could lead to the reasons why the person kills. This case study talks about the thoughts going through a person’s mind before or after they kill. Every thought …show more content…

This case study talks about a man who ran over a black teen because he didn’t like the teen’s color. This can help me answer my essential question because some people do kill because of skin color. The man was faced with a hate crime for killing the black teen. It is very interesting to me that a person will kill just because of a race or skin color, did this person do something to the killer that makes me the killer want to kill him? This article is about a man in Oregon who mowed over a black teen and killed him. Russell (killer) said he harmed Bruce (victim) because of Bruce’s race and skin. Russell’s girlfriend was in the passenger seat encouraging Russell to kill Bruce. A witness says they saw Russell trying and trying to run over Bruce until he did it. Russell was a white supremacist, which means he was in a group of people that believes white people are of the superior

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