https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0 In America en-us 2021-05-12 00:17:00 UTC 2025-12-24 00:04:09 UTC hello@padlet.com cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1515757718 Furman v. Georgia is a Supreme Court case on cruel and unusual punishment in death penalty cases. Petitioner Furman was convicted of murder, petitioner Jackson was convicted of rape, both in Georgia, and petitioner Branch was convicted of rape in Texas. And all of them were sentenced to death. 
The Supreme Court declared capital punishment unconstitutional as it when applied. The death penalty was a violation of the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment because of the inconsistency in who gave a death sentence and who was not. The court suggested that new laws might be acceptable, if they provided clear standards for imposing death sentences.]]> 2021-05-12 00:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1515757718 cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1515765105 2021-05-12 00:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1515765105 cck2201 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1520543294 The Kennedy v. Louisiana case of 2008 was the case in which Patrick Kennedy was found guilty of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter. From this incident, the court sought out the death penalty, as Kennedy was found guilty for raping a child under the age of 12. In Kennedy’s defense, he stated that the court did not sentence Coker to death penalty in the Coker v. Georgia case after raping a woman. After a 5-4 decision from the court that favored Kennedy, the court ruled that Eighth Amendment (prohibits imposing death penalty for cruel and unusual punishments) prevented using the death penalty because the rape did not result in the death of the child. In the end, the Kennedy v. Louisiana Case was the decision to prioritize the Eighth amendment and declared that the raping of a child was not “cruel enough” to impose a death penalty for.]]> 2021-05-13 10:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1520543294 cck2201 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1520544050 This is picture of the 5-4 court decision that favored Kennedy and prevented the death penalty.]]> 2021-05-13 10:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1520544050 cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522533630 This article talks about facts of the case.]]> 2021-05-13 19:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522533630 cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522545562 The Boston Marathon Bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on April 15, 2013. Two bombs went off close the finish line of the marathon, killing three spectators and wounding over 260 others. In this article it discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to consider whether to uphold the death sentence against bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted in the deadly 2013 bombing of the Boston marathon. There was a resent ending because there was concern about how public the attach was. ]]> 2021-05-13 19:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522545562 cck2201 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522552739 The case file of Kennedy v. Louisiana. The decision to prevent Kennedy’s death penalty was decided on June 25, 2008.]]> 2021-05-13 19:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522552739 afd2101_2 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522552853 Roper v. Simmons was a Supreme Court case that ruled 5-4 saying that it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment or a crime committed under the age of 18. Christopher Simmons and two friends (although one dropped out) planned and committed a burglary and murder of Shirley Nite Crook. They tied Crook up and threw her over a bridge. She was later found dead by drowning. Because of the overwhelming amount of evidence, Simmons was convicted of first degree murder and the jury recommended the death sentence. Simmons appealed at various court levels, and the case went to the Supreme Court. The supreme Kurt of Missouri said that the national consensus was that execution of juvenile offenders violated the eight amendment because it was a cruel and unusual punishment. ]]> 2021-05-13 19:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522552853 afd2101_2 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522563865 1. Juveniles are less morally reprehensible than adults due to their immature and irresponsible behavior 
2. Juveniles are vulnerable and lack control 
3. Juveniles are still struggling to define their identity ]]> 2021-05-13 20:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522563865 cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522580554 2021-05-13 20:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522580554 cmj22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522591223 The number of executions have been on pace in the United States for the past six years. The demand for executions have been even less due to the pandemic, so many states are deciding to abolish the death penalty.]]> 2021-05-13 20:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1522591223 tkh22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1530200642 http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/26/Gregg-v-Georgia

This source provides a video with some live coverage from the actual case in 1976 and then the rest of the video is about people from all around the country asking questions about the the Gregg vs Georgia case and about the death penalty in general to two professionals. One is a criminal justice legal foundation legal director and the other is a Harvard University Law Professor and so they provide credible answers to the questions often referencing specific people and examples from the case of Gregg vs Georgia.  ]]> 2021-05-17 07:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1530200642 tkh22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1530202407 Gregg vs Georgia was a case in which Gregg was convicted of armed robbery and murder and was therefore sentenced to death. Tory Gregg asked the court to go further than they had in the Furman case and rule the death penalty unconstitutional. However, the court refused to do so. In the case, the Supreme Court ruled that they would stick to the law of giving the death penalty based on the act of balancing mitigating and aggravating circumstances because they deemed it to be constitutional. That was in convention with what the states of Georgia, Texas and Florida saw was worthy of a death penalty, since they thought that any capital crime should deserve a death sentence. The Supreme Court also declared that North Carolina and Louisiana’s policy of mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional because that was too harsh and left no room for considering the circumstances of each case. The reason Gregg was sentenced to a death penalty, was because of aggravating circumstances and therefore there was no 8th amendment violation and so the death penalty was constitutional.]]> 2021-05-17 07:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1530202407 tkh22011 https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1534266076 The death penalty also known as the capital punishment is the legal execution of a criminal. In the old days, the death penalty would be carried out by beheading people but that has never been done in the United States. Some other methods that have been used in the death penalty include shooting, hanging, electrocution, poisonous gas and lethal injection. However, today every state in the US use lethal injection as the method for the death penalty. There has been lots of controversy whether the death penalty should be used in the United States, in what cases, and to what people. It normally takes over ten years in the states from the a sentence to the time someone gets executed, and there are a couple thousand inmates who are on death row. But there the death penalty is still used in some states to kill the people who deserve to be punished that severely for their crimes. 
We have the most important issue because African Americans are  disproportionately killed by the use of the death penalty. In fact, since 1976, African Americans have accounted for a disproportionate 43% of all the total executions and account for 55% of all people who are awaiting trial. This is another example of blacks being discriminated against because they are stereotyped to be the worst criminals when in some cases they might innocent. Although it is undeniable that black people do commit crimes, the problem is that white people commit the same crimes and are not sentenced to death. Instead some even get to live their life in the outside world after serving some time. Another reason why the death sentence is the most important issue is because since black people are stereotyped as criminals, it is not out of the imagination for a white person to give a testimony against a black person would sentence him to do when in fact most times the black people haven’t even committed a crime. ]]> 2021-05-18 05:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cmj22011/3jo58lvo8yl7phm0/wish/1534266076