Supreme Court Cases
In this case, the Supreme Court invalidated all death penalty schemes in the United States (Full case name and year)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
These types of challenges allow you to exclude potential jurors for any reason.
Peremptory challenges
This many states have abolished the death penalty (DO NOT INCLUDE GOVERNOR IMPOSED MORATORIUMS)
23
Less than a quarter of all homicide victims are _______ , while nearly half of the victims of executed inmates are ______.
This man was indicted alongside 16 others for the murder of Catherine Fuller in Washington DC in 1985
Chris Turner
After four year, the Supreme Court reestablished death penalty systems in the United States through this case(Full case name and year)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
This form of punishment, known by its acronym LWOP, is considered by many as an alternative to the death penalty
Life without the possibility of parole
What is the population of the United States to the nearest 100 million
300 million
About 70 percent of homicide victims are ______, divided roughly equally between whites and blacks
male
This Supreme Court case found that the precedent of Brady v. Maryland does not require that the convictions in the Turner case be overturned because the withheld evidence in question is not material under the standard established in Brady
Turner v. United States
This case introduced the idea that the eighth amendment must "draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" (Full case name and year)
Trop v. Dulles (1958)
This 1996 Act commonly referred to as AEDPA sought to speed up the capital punishment process however its true effects have been mixed at best
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
Through 2019, this is the number of homicides in the United States as recorded by the FBI, nearest 100 thousand
829,305
Female offenders have typically been given the death sentence for the murder of these groups of people. This stands in contrast to males who are almost always convicted for killing strangers, often in conjunction with another felony.
someone well known to them (a spouse, child, or other relatives
How many years did Chris Turner spend in Federal prison.
26
This 1987 case hinged on whether Georgia could be shown to have sentenced offenders disproportionately to death based on the combination of the the race of the offender and the victim
McCleskey v. Kemp
A unilateral decision taken by the state to forgo or reduce a judicial penalty though it may have been justly imposed
Clemency
Through 2021, this is the number of executions that have occurred in the United States, nearest 100
1538
"When we combine the race and gender of homicide offenders and victims, we gain a powerful insight into the types of crime that are considered the most egregious: when a black male kills a white female, odds of execution nationally are more than ____ times greater than when a black male kills another black male...When a white person kills a black victim, especially a male victim, odds of execution are vanishingly small" (84-85).
10 times
In this 1971 case, the Supreme Court rejected the idea that a full set of mitigating factors could be created.
McGautha v. California
The Appellate Process in capital cases contains these three Appeals/reviews
Direct Appeal, Post-conviction Appeals, and Federal Review
In March 2021, this state abolished the death penalty and is the most recent state to abolish the death penalty
Virginia
The greatest homicide rates occur in ______ (Richmond, VA to Philadelphia, PA), and up the _____ (From Orleans county, to counties along/near the river in MI and AR, up to St. Louis).
The mid-Atlantic corridor and the Mississippi