Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr. was a retired United States Air Force master sergeant who murdered 16 people in a psychotic riot over a week long phase in 1987. The riot included 14 of Simmons family themselves. The murders commenced December 22 in Dover and prolonged until December 28, 1987. It is alleged that a brief time afore Christmas of 1987, Simmons decided to murder all the members of his family. On December 22, he first executed his son Gene and his wife Rebecca at his home in Dover, by firing
Conscious of Guilt VS A Guilty Conscience Conscious and Conscience are two words that may sound the same and be familiar in definition but have two totally separate meanings. The differences are shown in definition and criminal example. Webster Dictionary defines Conscious as “Possessing knowledge, whether by internal conscious experience, or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.” Webster Dictionary quotes -Milton as saying “Satan had no answer, but stood struck with guilt of his
On June 25, 1990 Ronald Simmons was executed after being sentenced to death, and put on death row in 1987 for murdering 14 members of his family, which included 8 juveniles, one acquaintance, and one stranger. Ronald Simmons case was one of the much simpler cases due to the fact that he gave up his right to appeal with the following oath "I, Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr., want it to be known that it is my wish and my desire that absolutely no action by anybody be taken to appeal or in any way change this
Robert Lee makes many arguments to argue justification of capital punishment in his article, “Deserving to Die.” Some of the stronger ones involve the deterrent effect of the use of the death penalty, why the cost of execution is so high, and how the use of the death penalty increases overall public safety. In Lee’s first argument, he argues that the use of capital punishment helps reduce overall crime by acting as a deterrent to crime. In at least one respect, capital punishment is unquestionably
After I read the chapter, all I could say is the world’s really strange—maybe gone mad. First-off, it’s pretty disturbing when you think that love could actually be a key to homicide—that “love” itself could be the very root of motives for murder. Whenever I see the news on TV about intimate or family-related homicides, it awes me and makes me wonder how could they do such a thing. But anyway, I’ve observed that some do it to hide an affair from the spouse, some are for money, others are for authority