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A male is found guilty of raping a 72 year old woman. You are the judge. What is an appropriate punishment for this crime?. A male is found guilty of raping a 72 year old woman. You are the judge. What is an appropriate punishment for this crime?
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A male is found guilty of raping a 72 year old woman. You are the judge. What is an appropriate punishment for this crime?
A male is found guilty of raping a 72 year old woman. You are the judge. What is an appropriate punishment for this crime? He is 13 years old. Does this change your response? Why/why not?
Dramatic Reading reading in a dramatic voice. Why do this? What’s the difference with the passage below when we read it dramatically? …on Aug. 6, 1890, the smell of burnt flesh permeated the room. He was still breathing. Saliva dripped from his mouth and down his beard as he gasped for air.
Cruel and Unusual History THE Supreme Court concluded last week, in a 7-2 ruling, that Kentucky’s three-drug method of execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In his plurality opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts cited a Supreme Court principle from a ruling in 1890 that defines cruelty as limited to punishments that “involve torture or a lingering death.” But the court was wrong in the 19th century, an error that has infected its jurisprudence for more than 100 years. In this nation’s landmark capital punishment cases, the resultant executions were anything but free from torture and prolonged deaths. The first of those landmark cases, the 1879 case of Wilkerson v. Utah, was cited by Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion in the Kentucky case. The court “had no difficulty concluding that death by firing squad” did not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, Justice Thomas wrote. Wallace Wilkerson might have begged to differ. Once the Supreme Court affirmed Utah’s right to eradicate him by rifle, Wilkerson was let into a jailyard where he declined to be blindfolded. A sheriff gave the command to fire and Wilkerson braced for the barrage. He moved just enough for the bullets to strike his arm and torso but not his heart. “My God!” Wilkerson shrieked. “My God! They have missed!” More than 27 minutes passed as Wilkerson bled to death in front of astonished witnesses and a helpless doctor.
Brainstorm: A Tagxedo is a representation of a word or object that we create by filling a silhouette of the object with words and/or images that represent it. In your Tagxedo, you can include words and images that represent facts, opinions and emotions that come to mind when you think about cruel and unusual. Below, brainstorm a list of words and images below, then fill the entire word “punishment” with these words and images. (Hint: you can write the words several times, write the words LARGE, etc). cruel and unusual punishment
DIRECTIONS: YOU have just appointed to the Supreme Court—FOR LIFE Work with your fellow justices to review the cases in the enclosed envelopes. Complete a section of this organizer after each case. Be prepared to share your responses.
The Supreme Court Ruled… • Roper v. Simmons: Supreme Court rules it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18.
In Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S.730 (2002), the United States Supreme Court ruled that the defense of qualified immunity, under which government actors may not be sued for actions they take in connection with their offices, did not apply to a suit challenging the Alabama Department of Corrections's use of the "hitching post", a punishment whereby inmates were immobilized for long periods of time. The former prisoner who had lost his suit in the lower courts, was therefore allowed to go forward with his case.
Trop v. Dulles: the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that it was unconstitutional for the government to revoke the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment
th 8 Brainstorm: In your Tagxedo, you can include words and images that represent facts, opinions and emotions that come to mind when you think about the 8th amendment. Below, brainstorm a list of words and images below, then fill your entire 8 with these words and images. (Hint: you can write the words several times, write the words LARGE, etc).
