Would you call the person guilty?

Question

A half hour before dawn, a mob of 70 white Americans carry torches, whips, and chains. Their eyes burn with hate, and their faces are filled with guilty. A black man is bound in chains and blindfolded, a rope is bound tightly to his neck. A tall Sycamore tree towers behind him, a quagmire in its silence, the mobs' yelling drowning all thought. The crowd screams to hang him, and behind him stand two hooded figures, white robed and pointed hoods, aka the KKK. A sharp smell of alcohol hangs in the air, and a feeling of tension, anger, and bloodlust taint the minds of the people. Their yelling and screaming leaps decibels as the black man is bought closer to the tree, and the noose is pulled tighter around his neck. The rope that binds him holds his wrists tightly behind his back, and a rope is thrown over a branch of a tree. The man is to be hanged (or hung).

A black Escalade silently drifts in the distance, 200 yards away, the headlights off. The driver, a distraught black wife, watches in fear of what is about to happen. In a snap decision, the car is revved up and plunged forward as she crusades through the mob at 70 mph, crushing the bones of her husband's aggressors, their faces plastered on her windshield with a mix of wrath, and surprise. She merely cut the mob down, yet the diminshed group gathers again, and charges at the SUV; it makes a quick U-turn, as she darts through again, smashing ribcages and shattering legs. There are screams of agony as many of them lay on the ground in pain. The survivors scatter as a shotgun blast, and she follows them, crushing some into potholes, and forcing others to die on their garage door, a bloody mess. The few survivors that were left, die before they can hide in their homes, and the neighborhood becomes silent again before dawn. The bodies of the mob lay strewn through the street, her husband still bound and gagged to the sycamore tree. She reaches the tree, freeing him. They glance at each other, and with a nervous passion, love under the benign Sycamore tree. In a frenzy after, she drives towards a hospital still in shock. The couple speak in an emergency room, when a cop overhears them and arrests both. They now stand before a judge, the story told; a massacre of love, a case of self-defense for a spouse, or a possiblility of an accident. You're the Judge, how would you decide?

Answer 1

Murder for the ones she killed that were trying to get away. The people she killed while trying to save her husband and the people she killed when they came at her car, she can probably claim defense of others and self defense, respectively. However, once they tried to flee and she came after them, it was murder.

Answer 2

First of all,,the KKK was long gone before Cadillac ESCALADE's ever existed,,so I take it this is an exercise in the hypothetical !! As a judge,,I would have to consider the fact that the vigilante mob and all its components created the stage for the criminal activities..Also the fact of a lynching of a fellow human being without juries prudence(a lawful assembly with convicted guilt in a court of law) created the incident..Preservation of ones mate in an insurmountable in-balance of injustice can drive someone to do unthinkable things..Temporary Insanity would most definitely fit the occasion..The victims were the perpetrators of the soon to be crime..So, EACH ONE was already guilty of the murder which would soon take place by collusion..At that very moment,,the black couple was in a war, which would end with one or possibly BOTH of their deaths by a MOB !! Although the conclusion didn't end as it was proposed,,the actions of the black female were not only justified,,but if one allowed ones family member to be killed by a Mob for whatever reason,,How could that person EVER face themselves in a mirror again??? SOLOMON

Answer 3

Good story! I could see it as a TV movie, making it seem like it was a hundred years ago, the husband could be dressed in overalls and the clothes of the people could be dark gray and ambiguous, but then the wife enters having the Escalade every color gets brighter, lots of red and fire light, head lights etc. pull it into modern day is a nice twist on a classic tale. Referring to the legal matter; Anything the cop heard before he read them their Miranda Rights and arrested them is inadmissible evidence at trial, fruit of the forbidden tree. Then to end the story they had Johnny Cochran' s new young blood as the attorney team, heroes for a new era, to defend them and they get off on all charges. I know you didn't ask but make sentences shorter and fix punctuation. It might be better to say Massacre for love, not of love.

Answer 4

I would say it is understandable how enraged the wife became. I would absolutely not say the extent to which she took things was excusable. People get emotional all the time, but as members of society we have an inherent responsibility to display a certain level of self control. I cannot put myself in this woman's shoes, I cannot say I would have acted differently, but legally and morally, what she did was wrong. She went far beyond self-defense and killed/maimed far too many people. Some may say the victims were not innocent, but I fell obliged to respond with a quote of Jesus Christ as he died on the cross. "Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Answer 5

Not a bad story. I would suggest working on your grammar a bit and making the story a bit more realistic. You can do that by either changing the setting for the modern time, or placing the setting to about 50 years ago or so. Good Luck and God Bless.

Answer 6

While your tawdry story of a bloodthirsty woman in a SUV playing Wonder Woman and then scoring with the victim out in the open is interesting, it scarcely negates the fact that you appear to be getting way too close to the crack pipe.



-Stuart

Answer 7

there's a large distinction between "harmless" and being stumbled on "not in charge previous a real looking doubt" in a criminal trial. Ask O.J. Calling a guy or woman a bad call is customarily in basic terms your "opinion" and not slander. Falsely calling a guy or woman a "criminal" is often slander, yet provided that there is not any foundation for it and it reasons injury which would be shown (e.g., his company suffers via lies).

Answer 8

Who uses torches nowadays?