TO: Hon. Judge Colcort‚ Oceana Supreme Court FROM: Kimberly Cromwell‚ Clerk to Hon. Judge Colcort‚ Oceana Supreme Court RE: In the Matter of People of Oceana v. Samantha Clark DATE: January 29‚ 2014 Background of Clark Case Samantha Clark‚ 45‚ in 1989‚ admittedly killed John Clark‚ after she discovered him in a homosexual act with Neil Brownfield‚ in plain view of the Clark’s two minor children‚ aged seven and eight respectively. Mrs. Clark‚ an ordained minister in the Real Life Church
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Furman vs. Georgia In Furman vs. Georgia Furman was convicted of murder and two others for rape. “Juries had convicted Furman for murder and two other individuals for rape—all three were African American—and then imposed the death penalty.” (Source A). "Furman v. Georgia (1972)." American Government. ABC-CLIO‚ 2010. Web. 19 Apr. 2010. . The three pleaded that the death penalty is against the eighth amendment‚ which prohibits any man from suffering cruel and unusual punishment‚ and when Furman
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Preceding initial research of the death penalty‚ the umbrella of crimes of which it covered seemed larger than it realistically was. Between murder‚ adult rape‚ and child rape‚ the death penalty could be widely applicable if deemed constitutional. Prior to any study‚ the death penalty surely seemed to be acceptable from a constitutional aspect‚ as such morally heinous crimes deserved to be severely punished accordingly. Upon subsequent research‚ many intricacies of the law were noticed or understood
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In this paperwork of CJA 344 Week 4 Discussion Questions you will find the answers on the next questions: DQ 1: In Gregg v. Georgia‚ the Supreme Court assumed that racial discrimination would not be a problem under the "guided-discretion" statutes enacted in the wake of the Furman decision. Does the evidence support or refute this conclusion? DQ 2: Do you think the Death Penalty is an effective means of punishment? Law - General Law For this assignment‚ you will choose from the
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Georgia decision‚ Mandery reveals that Justice Stewart and White met and agreed to join the majority to repeal the death penalty. According to Mandery‚ White told Stewart that he will not vote against the death penalty on moral grounds‚ but will write an opinion if it’s struck down on procedural grounds only. The decision of Furman V. Georgia was a deemed unconstitutional because of it was arbitrary‚ which caused states
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I. Worcester V. Georgia A. Facts: 1. Samuel Worcester was born in Worcester‚ Massachusetts‚ on 19th January‚1798 2. Georgia passed 5 laws restricting authority of the Cherokees over their lands a. Included was a law requiring all whites living in a Cherokee Indian Territory‚ including missionaries and anyone married to a Cherokee‚ to obtain a state license to live there 3. Samuel Worcester and 6 other missionaries refused to move from a land that was labeled an “Indian territory” a. Also
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provoked GA to demand the destruction of this nation within its chartered borders & to pass legislation that made Cherokee survival in their homeland unlikely. Chapter 2 - Georgia Policy One of the most important keys to understanding the policy of Indian removal and its relation to the Cherokees lies in Georgia Georgia: No state agitated more consistently or aggressively for expulsion of Native people from within its borders‚ no legislative sent more resolutions to Congress‚ no congressional
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Learn From History The first established laws of capital punishment trace back to the eighteenth century B.C.E. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. An examining of the accounts of capital punishment starting with Hammurabi and continuing through the present demonstrates that the punishment’s history follows a trend. Throughout the course of history‚ the trend of capital punishment has gone from its devaluing of human life to its being protective of human life; historically‚ a completely
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low income. Capital punishment is truly unconstitutional. During the case Gregg v. Georgia‚ Troy Leon Gregg and other inmates claimed that a death sentence was a violation of the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution. In this amendment cruel and unusual punishment is prevented. Execution is simply a cruel and unusual punishment and therefore it violates the constitution. Also in the case of Furman v. Georgia‚ Furman expressed that he was not being granted “life‚ liberty and the pursuit
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unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. (Furman v. Georgia) That ruling was reached on a vote of five to four‚ clearly showing how even the U.S. Supreme Court Justices‚ the highest authority of the law‚ were torn on the issue. This ruling essentially made Capital Punishment illegal in the United States. This lasted about four years‚ until another case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court (Gregg v. Georgia 1976) that reinstated the death penalty. It stated that it must be administered
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