Connections to To Kill a Mockingbird
There are many ways TKAM can connect to other issues, but this came to mind.... was the wrongfuloly trialed David Spence , was executed in 1997 for murdering three teenagers in 1982. David was convicted of raping, torturing and murdering two 17-year-old girls and then murdering an 18-year-old boy. As the original allegations go, David was hired by a convenience store owner Muneer Deeb to kill one girl and he ended up killing these three teens by mistake. Muneer was charged and sentenced to death, but later received a re-trial and was acquitted. Authoritative sources even had serious doubt about David’s guilt. Although there was no clear physical evidence to link David to the crime, prosecutors used bite marks that were found on one of the girl’s body and matched it to Spence’s teeth. Even jailhouse witnesses were bribed into snitching on Spence. Despite weak evidential support and jail mate testimonies, Spence was executed. This relates to TKAM, Tom Robinson was trialled for something that he didn't do just like David Spence, and both had evidence against them but also had evidence pointing not to them but to someone else. In the end the good man dies in both scenarios. Tom died for something that he didn't do and so did David, they died in different ways and they weren't both African American but they still had to pay the price for something that they didn't do knowing that who ever really did it is walking free and they payed the price for them