http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091306282_2.html?sid=ST2010091306394
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2017362,00.html
http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-san-francisco/virginia-woman-to-be-executed-is-first-98-years
The story I looked at was about a Virginia woman facing execution for the murder of her husband and stepson. I found articles on this story in the Washington Post, Time and in The Examiner. In each of the articles there are similarities and differences. All of the stories have the same basic information about how she hired two men and hired them to come into their home and kill her family. They also are similar in that they talk about her execution date getting closer and how the prison chaplain does not want her to be executed because she believes she can do alot of good for other women. There are differences in the articles, but I would say the most visible differences are in the Washington Post and the others. One says that the men stole her husbands money and another article says that she stole the money. Another difference in the Washington Post article is that it presents alot of additional information regarding the legistics of the case, such as the woman having her daughter have sex with one of the gunmen as payment for the murders. The stories don't appear to have any distorted facts beside the stolen cash facts. All in all the story line seems to be the same for all of the articles and strives to put forth information that is in tune with the facts that other articles have, some just have more information than others.
I find it interesting to hear about a woman on death row! Also, I found that the basic facts of my story were pretty much the same as well. It was mostly the minor details that had differences. Interesting story!
ReplyDeleteThis story is extremely sad. I could not imagine putting any family member of mine up for payment or cash. However, to the assignment I find it interesting that two different articles posted different things about the stolen cash because whoever stole that money will probably play a major role in the decision of that case.
ReplyDeleteI think that this story is terrible. Anyone, to me, who kills or hires someone to kill their own family should be executed. That is probably the sickest thing that you could ever do. Killing someone else is bad in itself, but when you kill your own family, something is wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt this will end up on an episode of Snapped...if it hasn't already.
ReplyDeleteSnapped is a pretty good show, my mom is addicted to it. I don't know why but I alwasys find stories like these more interesting than just your typical murders...it probably is the way that the media portrayed it. Did you happen to find out if the allegations of the woman's daughter and gunman were actually true? Because that's sickening in my opinion
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