https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq en-us 2020-11-19 15:22:16 UTC 2026-02-15 17:24:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f469-2696.png swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/941790495 Chief Justice:
William Rehnquist
Associate Justices:
- Anthony Kennedy
- David Souter
-Clarence Thomas
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]> 2020-11-19 15:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/941790495 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/948555734 Supreme Court of Missouri
Decision: A majority of Americans did not consider the execution of minors to be cruel and unusual.]]> 2020-11-21 20:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/948555734 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/948563647 17 year old Christopher Simmons was sentenced to death in 1993.  A series of appeals to state and federal courts lasted until 2002, but each appeal was rejected. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing the mentally disabled, violated the Eighth and 14th Amendment prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment, the Missouri Supreme Court decided to reconsider Simmons' case.]]> 2020-11-21 20:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/948563647 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/950750834 The nation had changed their opinion on the death penalty. Majority of Americans opposed the execution of minors & the courts held that they were unconstitutional. ]]> 2020-11-23 01:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/950750834 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/950775324 The government argued that allowing a state court to overturn a Supreme Court decision" would be dangerous, because the state courts could just as easily decide that executions]]> 2020-11-23 02:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/950775324 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/952963654 The Court ruled that standards of decency have evolved so that executing minors is "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment]]> 2020-11-23 16:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/952963654 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/953086658 Judicial Activism
- This case overturned the execution of a convicted murderer
- judges used their power to impose their own values ]]> 2020-11-23 16:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/953086658 swatso0145 https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/956457255 Q: Does the execution of minors violate the prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" found in the Eighth Amendment and applied to the states through the incorporation doctrine of the 14th Amendment?
A: It was agreed that this was cruel and unusual as a punishment. It was decided to be inappropriate for minors.]]> 2020-11-24 14:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/swatso0145/vc86lkmly4lxrfdq/wish/956457255