Week of April 20: Punishment and Minors
Below you will find the audio and slides covering the following parts of our outline:
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
H) Minors
1) Capital crimes - Roper vs Simmons (2005)
2) Life without parole
a) Non-homicidal crime - Graham vs FL (2010)
b) Homicidal crime - Miller vs AL/Jackson vs Hobbs (2012)
c) Retroactive - Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016)
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
H) Minors
1) Capital crimes - Roper vs Simmons (2005)
2) Life without parole
a) Non-homicidal crime - Graham vs FL (2010)
b) Homicidal crime - Miller vs AL/Jackson vs Hobbs (2012)
c) Retroactive - Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016)
Week of April 6: Applying the Death Penalty - Intellectual Disability
Below you will find the audio and slides covering the following parts of our outline:
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
G) Capital Crimes (cont)
4) Applying the death penalty (cont)
c) Intellectual disability - Penry vs TX, Atkins vs VA (2002), Hall vs FL (2014)
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
G) Capital Crimes (cont)
4) Applying the death penalty (cont)
c) Intellectual disability - Penry vs TX, Atkins vs VA (2002), Hall vs FL (2014)
Week of March 30: Applying the Death Penalty
Below you will find the audio and slides covering the following parts of our outline:
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
G) Capital Crimes (cont)
4) Applying the death penalty
a) Mitigating factors - Lockett vs OH (1978)
b) Racial discrimination - McClesky vs Kemp (1987)
c) Method - Glossip vs Gross (2015)
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
G) Capital Crimes (cont)
4) Applying the death penalty
a) Mitigating factors - Lockett vs OH (1978)
b) Racial discrimination - McClesky vs Kemp (1987)
c) Method - Glossip vs Gross (2015)
Week of March 23: Punishment generally and capital crimes
Below you will find the audio and slides covering the following parts of our outline:
IV) Constitutional Law: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (cont)
F) Non capital crimes - Ewing vs CA (2003)
G) Capital Crimes
1) Current stats
2) Moratorium - Furman vs GA (1972)
3) Reinstating - Gregg vs GA (1976)
Here are the readings as they are provided in Moodle:
Week of March 16: Welcome back!
Listen to the podcast below to get information about the changes that we are making to POLS 382 for the rest of the semester. Download the update to the syllabus to review some key changes.