GOOD MORNING! REVIEW PRACTICE QUIZ

Define crimeCriminologyList three factors that contribute to crime.What are the Four types of Punishment?What are the components of the Criminal Justice

System?What are two descriptors of someone who commits a

hate crime?

Crime Note Quiz 5/14

Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty.

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STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT

Read the controversial experiment and answer the discussion questions

The experiment

THE DEATH PENALTY

Is the death penalty immoral? Is the death penalty a deterrentShould executions be public?Does a person’s ethnic and social economic

background factor in someone getting the death penalty?

Should doctors participate in executions?Should the death penalty be used as retribution? (Eye

for eye?) Is life in prison a better option that the death

penalty? Is the death penalty unconstitutional?

QUESTIONS

QUIZ

Grab a computer or your mobile device

Finish your work on your Death Penalty questions (10 minutes)

Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty.

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Quiz on Tuesday…What you need to know

Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty.

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Define CrimeDefine CriminologyCauses of CrimeFactors contributing to crime Ingredients of a crimeDescription of hate crime off endersTypes of PunishmentDeath penalty cases (matching)Aggravating and mitigating factors

FOR YOUR QUIZ

Furman v. Georgia , 408 U.S. 238 (1972):The application of the death penalty is unconstitutional.

Gregg v. Georgia , 428 U.S. 153 (1976): The death penalty is constitutional.

Coker v. Georgia , 433 U.S. 584 (1977):Death sentences for the rape of an adult woman violate the Eighth Amendment.

Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002):The execution of a person with "mental retardation" violates the Eighth Amendment.

Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005):The Constitution prohibits the execution of individuals who were under 18 at the time of the off ense.

Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008):The U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a Louisiana statute that allowed the death penalty for the rape of a child where the victim did not die.

COURT CASES YOU NEED TO KNOW…

Federal Off ensesStates and the Death PenaltyPA

FACTS

FACTORS IN A DEATH PENALTY CASE

Mitigating factors (background factors that work in the

defendant's favor at sentencing)

Aggravating factors("real offense" characteristics that work against the

defendant)

1. No significant prior record2. Extreme mental or emotional disturbance3. Defendant was a minor participant in the crime4. Defendant was a youth at the time of the offense

1. Prior record of felonies2. Offense is a felony murder3. Offense involved more than one victim4. Victim was a police officer or other public official5. Torture or heinous crime6. Defendant tried to avoid arrest7. Defendant tried to escape

AGGRAVATING VS. MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES

(1)The murder was especial ly heinous, atroc ious, cruel or depraved (or involved torture)(2) The capital off ense was committed dur ing the commiss ion of , attempt of , or escape from a specifi ed fe lony (such as robbery, k idnapping, rape, sodomy, arson, oral copulat ion, train wrecking, car jacking, cr iminal gang act iv i ty, drug deal ing, or aircraft p iracy)(3)The murder was committed inc ident to a h igh jacking(4) The defendant knowingly created a grave r isk of death for one or more persons in addit ion to the vict im of the off ense(5) The defendant committed or attempted to commit more than one murder at the same t ime(6) The murder was committed for pecuniary gain or pursuant to an agreement that the defendant would receive something of value(7) The defendant caused or d irected another to commit murder, or the defendant procured the commiss ion of the off ense by payment, promise of payment, or anything of pecuniary value(8) The defendant has been convicted of , or committed, a pr ior murder, a fe lony involving violence, or other ser ious fe lony(9)The vict im was a chi ld under 12 years of age(10)At the t ime of the k i l l ing the vict im was in her th ird tr imester of pregnancy or the defendant had knowledge of the vict im’s pregnancy

AGGRAVATING… PENNSYLVANIA (18)

(11) The v ict im was a government employee, inc luding peace offi cers, pol ice offi cers, federa l agents , fi refi ghters , judges, jurors , defense attorneys, and prosecutors , in the course of h is or her dut ies(12)The v ict im was a pubic servant concerned in offi cia l detent ion who was k i l led in the performance of h is dut ies or as a resu lt of h is offi cia l pos it ion(13)The v ict im was the Attorney Genera l of Pennsylvania , a deputy attorney genera l , d istr ic t attorney, ass istant d istr ict attorney, member of the genera l assembly, governor , l ieutenant governor , auditor genera l , state t reasurer who was k i l led in the performance of h is dut ies or as a resu lt of h is offi cia l pos i t ion(14)The murder was committed against a person held as a sh ie ld , as a hostage, or for ransom(15)The murder was committed against a witness in a cr imina l proceeding to prevent the witness f rom appear ing(16)The v ict im was a nongovernmenta l in formant and the defendant committed the murder or was an accompl ice to the k i l l ing…and the k i l l ing was in reta l ia t ion for the v ict im’s act iv i t ies(17)The v ict im was involved, associated, or in compet i t ion with the defendant in the sa le , manufacture, d istr ibut ion, or de l ivery of any control led substance or counterfe i t control led substance(18)At the t ime of the k i l l ing the defendant was subject to a court order restr ict ing in any way the defendant’s behavior toward the v ict im or any other order of a court of common p leas or of the minor jud ic iary designated in whole or in part to protect the v ict im f rom the defendant

CONTD…

(1) The defendant has no signifi cant history of prior cr iminal convictions. (2) The defendant was under the infl uence of extreme mental or

emotional disturbance. (3) The capacity of the defendant to appreciate the cr iminality of his

conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantial ly impaired.

(4) The age of the defendant at the time of the cr ime. (5) The defendant acted under extreme duress, although not such duress

as to constitute a defense to prosecution under 18 Pa.C.S. § 309 (relating to duress), or acted under the substantial domination of another person.

(6) The victim was a partic ipant in the defendant’s homicidal conduct or consented to the homicidal acts.

(7) The defendant’s partic ipation in the homicidal act was relatively minor.

(8) Any other evidence of mitigation concerning the character and record of the defendant and the circumstances of his off ense.

PA: MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES (8)

Quiz tomorrow!Finish your Case studies

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CASE STUDIES

In your group, read the four death penalty cases.Make a list of mitigating circumstances.Make a list of aggravating circumstances.Weigh both. If the case calls for leniency, should

recommend life in Prison. If the crime is barbarous in nature, recommend the

Death Penalty.

Quiz is now Wednesday!

Agenda and objective: finish going over aggravating and mitigating circumstances, video.

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VIDEO

LAST MEALS PROJECT

LAST STATEMENTS

Bell Ringer: How many states have the death penalty? Which State just recently ended the death penalty?

Agenda and Objective: Finish up video, Students will then begin to work on their final exam review

Final exam: Tuesday January 14!

Grade book closes January 15!

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