Regulations have governed human behavior for hundreds of centuries, and today criminal laws must standardize and occasionally preserve social order. By assigning which behaviors are prohibited, they present understandable standards of actions, alerting society to which actions will or will not be held accountable, depending on the degree of severity; it is also figurative in conveying a statement that the audience opposes these particular acts. The earliest identified account of written decrees dates back to the time of the Babylonian king Hammurabi, or what we now know as the Code of Hammurabi, who instituted high standards of individual actions and severe penalties on transgressors, inflicting consequences equivalent to those of their crimes. . A further early structure of written laws was the famous Mosaic Law, like the Code of Hammurabi, based on the rule of “an eye for an eye” (Realities and Challenges 99). The general public in the United States is governed by a large amount of regulations from a variety of foundations such as federal, state, and local administrative institutions that cover everything from acquiring a driver's license to crime against the person. Although the organization of laws in the United States is large, complex, and varied, it can, in fact, be more comprehensive if you divide American laws into two general groups: civil law and criminal law. Civil law administers associations between individuals, and a party who is harmed economically or physically by another individual or group can claim a charge against that unit. Instead, criminal laws function under the conjecture that society, rather than a person, has been harmed by the prosecution of the accused... middle of paper... ega murders. Facing the death penalty, Bundy would soon appeal arguing that he was not responsible for all the murders (Rule 102-105). The investigators in the Ted Bundy case adhere to all legal elements of our Constitution. When investigators realized they didn't have enough evidence to arrest Bundy, they gathered all the evidence needed to convict him of Carol DaRonch's kidnapping. They provided him with a lawyer when he couldn't afford one and when he fired the lawyer, he was allowed to represent himself in his case. Florida investigators were able to provide much crucial evidence linking him to the assault and death of Kimberly Leach and the deaths of the other girls. Bundy was rightly sentenced, as required by the Mosaic Law, to the electric chair for the death of the many girls he had murdered.