Lizzie Borden's Verdict - Essay Example

Topic:  Lizzie Bordens Verdict Lizzie Borden was tried for the murder of her father and step –mother on the the morning of august month in 1892.Both of her parents were axed to death, where her step – mother was axed forty times and father forty one times. The court did not prove Borden guilty of murder based on lack of circumstantial evidence. However I personally feel that she was guilty of the murders and should have been punished for it. One thing that strikes me for Borden killing her parents is due to the uncomfortable situation prevailing in her house for certain time.

This could have disturbed her highly and as the situation got worse, she opted to kill her parents with extreme grudge.Another solid reason for her being guilty is that she was the only one present in the house at the time of murder of her parents. This is a very genuine reason, as someone needs to enter the house, in order to kill her parents. And moreover many of the people like friends and relatives who were known to her parents were busy with other work at the time of murder. If any intruder had killed Borden’s parents then he must have hidden in the house for 3 hours which looks less possible and illogical.

And to kill two people brutally, only Lizzie had the time and comfort.Additonally, police were unable to find any intruder entering the house to kill Mr. and Mrs. Borden. For them everything looked like an inside job.One alarming fact is that Lizzie reported she did not hear any loud noise from upstairs during the time of murder of her step mother. Her step mother was axed numerous times and she fell on the floor, despite all of this she did not hear any noise. This looks like a white lie and points that Lizzie is lieing.

Moreover; people have seen Lizzie visiting the drug store to buy posion.This shows her inclination to murder both of her parents. She also visited her neighbor on the previous night of the murder to inform them that one of her father’s enemy wants to t kill him and she is scared of the fact. According to (Masha, 2010) “On the night before the murders, Lizzie told one of her neighbors that and “enemy of her father would try to kill him” but during the murder there was no sign of forced entry into the Borden residence”.

Here we can see that Lizzie is trying to turn the attention of people around her from assuming her as the key murderer. She also lied that in the morning of the day of murder, an unidentified men came asking for her mother with a note but police could not find any evidence of a note or visiting of an intruder. Here Lizzie is trying to lie at many instances to convince neighbors and police that she was innocent. I believe that to kill her parents so brutally, there need too much effort and time and she is the only one who can so easily kill them with enough time in her hand.

Moreover, the maid when coming inside house from outside after washing heard a muffled laughing noise from upstairs which she thought to be of lizzie’s.So it is obvious here that the murder is done by Lizzie and no one else had a chance to intrude and do this killing.Work CitedMasha, C. (2010). Lizzie Border - Guilty or not?. In dtsdapache.hershey.k12.pa. Retrieved May 22, 2012, from http://dtsdapache.hershey.k12.pa.us/c3e3/eclouser/2010/02/17/lizzie-borden-guilty-or-not/