TN+Homicide+Cases

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn

James Page, 15, was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison for hitting Christopher Boyce Jones in the head with a baseball bat near Crossland Avenue and Golf Club Lane. Jones died two hours later.

HayleyFullerTN REAL LIFE: EAST TENNESSEE A Union County jury found Stephen Michael West guilty in 1987 of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of Wanda Romines, 51, and her daughter, Sheila Romines, 15. He was also found guilty of two counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count each of aggravated rape and larceny.During the trial, a forensic pathologist testified that Sheila had been raped before being stabbed 17 times in the abdomen. Fourteen of those wounds were "torture-type cuts," he said. The inmate escaped the electric chair in 2001. He had refused to cooperate with his attorneys in filing federal appeals and was scheduled to die on March 1.Hours before his scheduled 1 a.m. execution, West changed his mind and signed papers asking a federal judge to stay his execution so he could pursue federal appeals.

SITUATION //__A wife suspects her husband of cheating. He claims to work late every other night. She keeps one of his registered guns in her car and follows him after work one night. She sees him and his young mistress eating dinner at her house. She goes into the house and shoots them both assuming that he was cheating. What is her sentencing and what kind of homicide is this?__//

Scenario One day a minor broke into an old woman's house not knowing she was home. She was sleeping in her room. The young minor, not knowing she had a security system and the house was armed while she was asleep, breaks in from the window and the alarm sounds. The old lady woke up and went into her living room and saw the young man trying to unplug and take off with her brand new big screen tv. She gets a gun out of her gun cabinet and shot him. Unfortunately, when she pulled the trigger, he ducked down and the bullet hit him right in the temple. It killed him in a heartbeat. Should the old lady be thrown in jail for killing a minor? Why or why not?