Background information
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
What is the 8th Amendment?
What year did the case take place?
What is 1972
What happened to the death penalty?
What is put on hold
Name one of the court cases that was a part of Furman v. Georgia
What is Jackson v. Georgia or What is Branch v. Texas
In what year was the death penalty at its peak?
What is 1999
It prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
Who was the Chief Justice
What is Burger
What was the death penalty replaced with?
What is a life sentence
What case wanted the death penalty itself to be declared unconstitutional
What is Gregg v. Georgia
What crime no longer had the punishment of the death penalty?
What is rape
He killed a person while robbing a house
Why was Furman sentenced to death?
Name one judge with a concurring opinion
What is Brennan or Marshall
How many states enacted new death penalty laws?
What is 37
What did Quintin Jones petition for?
What is clemency
Name three states that no longer have the death penalty
What is MN, WA, IA, WI, IL, MI, NM, AK, HI, WV, MD, DE, NJ, CT, NY, RI, MA, VT, ME
Georgia
Where did this case take place?
Name one justice with a dessenting opinion
What is Chief Justice burger, or justice Blackmun, or justice Powell, or Justice Rehnquist
What did the states have to revise?
What is criminal status
What did Gregg claim the death penalty violated?
What is capital punishment, or what is the 8th amendment
What state recently implemented new death penalty laws?
What is South Carolina
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to one question about the death penalty
How did Furman v. Georgia make it to the Supreme Court?
In what matter would death penalty be consider unconstitutional?
What is arbitrary or discriminatory matter
What case put the death penalty back into place?
What is Gregg v. Georgia
Why did the court rule that the death penalty itself is constitutional?
What is the way Georgia applied the death penalty was judicious and careful
What is it called when you want the death penalty to be changed to a life sentence?
What is clemency