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To absolve someone from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
Exonerated
The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered.
Drawn and Quartered
Killer Clown
John Wayne Gacy
Located in Colorado, is often referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”
ADX Florence
Name the artist and song Title;
Josie's on a vacation far away
Come around and talk it over
So many things that I wanna say
You know I like my girls a little bit older
Out Field, Your Love
Used in other States.
Theft of personal property.
Larceny
To punish someone by dragging them through the water under the keel of a ship, either across the width or from bow to stern.
Keelhauling
Scar face
Alphonse Capone
Located in New York, This prison is infamous for its brutal history and harsh conditions. It Opened in 1931
Attica Correctional Facility
Name the artist and song title;
"And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire."
Sting, Fortress around your heart
A term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer.
Embezzlement
This was basically a grill. For roasting people.
Gridiron
Oklahoma City Bomber
Timothy McVeigh
Located in Atmore, Alabama, this prison is notorious for its harsh conditions and high levels of violence. It Opened in 1969
Holman Correctional Facility
Name the artist and song title;
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
Jimmy Buffet, A Pirate Looks at Forty
a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a decision of a lower court.
Certiorari
a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick.
Flogging
Unibomber
Ted Kaczynski
Located in Kuna, Idaho, this prison is known for its severe conditions and strict security measures.
It is designed to house the state’s most violent and disruptive inmates, it is a facility where solitary confinement and lockdowns are common.
Idaho Maximum Security Institution
Name the artist(s) and song title;
As I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountains
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting
I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier
Saying "Stand and deliver" for he were a bold deceiver
The Dubliners or Metallica, Whiskey in the Jar
a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.
Habeas Corpus
This was a modified hanging system that used heavy weights and pulleys to quickly jerk the condemned into the air.
Upright Jerker
Her case was based on insider trading.
Martha Stewart
located in Crescent City, California, is infamous for Harsh conditions and the use of solitary confinement. It houses some of California’s most dangerous inmates, including gang leaders and violent offenders.
The prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) is particularly notorious.
Pelican Bay State Prison
Name the artist and song title;
On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good, we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go
Audioslave, Like a Stone