GOOD MORNING! REVIEW PRACTICE QUIZ
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Define crime
Criminology
List 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
WELCOME BACK!
 Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will
identify major issues over the death penalty.
STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
 Read the controversial experiment and answer the
discussion questions
 The experiment
THE DEATH PENALT Y
QUESTIONS
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Is the death penalty immoral?
Is the death penalty a deterrent
Should 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?
QUIZ
WELCOME BACK…BELL RINGER
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.
WELCOME BACK!
Quiz on
Tuesday…What you
need to know
Agenda and
Objective: Through
notes and survey
students will identify
major issues over the
death penalty.
FOR YOUR QUIZ
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Define Crime
Define Criminology
Causes of Crime
Factors contributing to crime
Ingredients of a crime
Description of hate crime of fenders
Types of Punishment
Death penalty cases (matching)
Aggravating and mitigating factors
COURT CASES YOU NEED TO KNOW…
 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 offense.
 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.
FACTS
 Federal Of fenses
 States and the Death Penalty
 PA
FACTORS IN A DEATH PENALT Y CASE
Mitigating factors (background
Aggravating factors("real
factors that work in the defendant's offense" characteristics that
favor at sentencing)
work against the defendant)
1. No significant prior record
2. Extreme mental or emotional disturbance
3. Defendant was a minor participant in the
crime
4. Defendant was a youth at the time of the
offense
1. Prior record of felonies
2. Offense is a felony murder
3. Offense involved more than one
victim
4. Victim was a police officer or other
public official
5. Torture or heinous crime
6. Defendant tried to avoid arrest
7. Defendant tried to escape
AGGRAVATING VS. MITIGATING
CIRCUMSTANCES
AGGRAVATING… PENNSYLVANIA (18)
 ( 1 ) T h e m u r d e r w a s e s p e c i a l l y h e i n o u s , a t r o c io us , c r u el o r d e p r av e d ( o r i nv o l v e d
to r t ur e )
( 2 ) T h e c a p i t a l o f fe n s e w a s c o m m i t te d d u r i n g t h e c o m mi s s i o n o f , a t te m pt o f , o r
e s c a p e f r o m a s p e c i fi e d f e l o ny ( s u c h a s r o b b e r y, k i d n a p p in g , r a p e , s o d o my, a r s o n ,
o r a l c o p ul a t io n , t r a i n w r e c k i n g , c a r j a c ki n g , c r i m i n a l g a n g a c t i v i t y, d r u g d e a l i n g , o r
aircraft piracy)
( 3 ) T h e m u r d e r w a s c o m mi t te d i n c i d e n t to a h i g h j a c k i n g
( 4 ) T h e d e f e n d a n t k n o w i n g l y c r e a te d a g r av e r i s k o f d e a t h f o r o n e o r m o r e p e r s o n s
i n a d d i t i o n to t h e v i c t i m o f t h e o f f e n s e
( 5 ) T h e d e f e n d a n t c o m mi t te d o r a t te m p te d to c o m m it m o r e t h a n o n e m u r d e r a t t h e
same time
( 6 ) T h e m u r de r w a s c o m m i t te d f o r p e c u ni a r y g a i n o r p u r s u a n t to a n a g r e e m e n t t h a t
t h e d e f e n d a n t w o u l d r e c e i ve s o m et h i n g o f v a l u e
( 7 ) T h e d e f e n d a n t c a u s e d o r d i r e c te d a n o t h e r to c o m m i t m u r d e r, o r t h e d e f e n d a n t
p r o c ur e d t h e c o m m i s s i o n o f t h e o f f e n s e b y p ay m e n t , p r o m i s e o f p ay m e n t , o r
a ny t h i n g o f p e c u n i a r y v a l u e
( 8 ) T h e d e f e n d a n t h a s b e e n c o nv i c te d o f , o r c o m mi t te d , a p r i o r m u r d e r, a f e l o ny
i nv o l v i n g v i o l e nc e , o r o t h e r s e r i o us f e l o ny
( 9 ) T h e v i c t i m w a s a c h i l d u n d e r 1 2 ye a r s o f a g e
( 1 0 ) A t t h e t i m e o f t h e k i l l in g t h e v i c t i m w a s i n h e r t h i r d t r i m e s te r o f p r e g n a n c y o r
t h e d e f e n d a n t h a d k n o w l e d g e o f t h e v i c t i m’ s p r e g n a n c y
CONTD…
 ( 1 1 ) T h e v i c t i m w a s a g o v e r nm e n t e m p l oye e , i n c l ud i n g p e a c e o f fi c e r s , p o l i c e
o f fi c e r s , f e d e r a l a g e n t s , f i r e fi g h te r s , j u d g es , j u r o r s , d e f e n s e a t to r n ey s , a n d
p r o s e c uto r s, i n t h e c o ur s e o f h i s o r h e r d u t i e s
( 1 2 ) T h e v i c t i m w a s a p u b i c s e r v a n t c o n c e r n e d i n o f f i ci al d ete n t i o n w h o w a s k i l l e d i n
t h e p e r fo r m a nc e o f h i s d u t i e s o r a s a r e s u l t o f h i s o f fi c ia l p o s i t i o n
( 1 3 ) T h e v i c t i m w a s t h e A t to r n ey G e n e r a l o f Pe n n s y l va n i a , a d e p u t y a t to r n ey g e n e r al ,
d i s t r i c t a t to r n ey, a s s i s t a n t d i s t r i c t a t to r n ey, m e m b e r o f t h e g e n e r a l a s s e m b l y,
g o v e r n o r, l i e uten a n t g o v e r n o r, a u d i to r g e n e r a l , s t a te t r e a s u r e r w h o w a s k i l l e d i n t h e
p e r fo r m a n c e o f h i s d u t i e s o r a s a r e s u l t o f h i s o f fi c i al p o s i t i o n
( 1 4 ) T h e m u r d e r w a s c o m m i t te d a g a i n s t a p e r s o n h e l d a s a s h i e l d , a s a h o s t a g e , o r
for ransom
( 1 5 ) T h e m u r de r w a s c o m m it te d a g a i n s t a w i t n e s s i n a c r i m i n al p r o c e e di n g to
p r ev e n t t h e w i t n e s s f r o m a p p e a r i n g
( 16 ) T h e v i c t im w a s a n o n g o ve r n m e n t a l i n f o r ma n t a n d t h e d e f e n d a n t c o m m i t te d t h e
m u r d e r o r w a s a n a c c o m p li ce to t h e k i l l i n g … a n d t h e k i l l i n g w a s i n r et a l i a t i o n f o r
t h e v i c t im ’s a c t i v i t i e s
( 17 ) T h e v i c t im w a s i nv o l ve d , a s s o c i a te d , o r i n c o m p et i t io n w i t h t h e d e f e n d a n t i n t h e
s a l e , m a n u f a c t ur e , d i s t r i b ut i o n , o r d e l i ve r y o f a ny c o n t ro l l ed s u b s t a n c e o r
c o u n te r fei t c o n t r o ll e d s u b s t a n c e
( 1 8 ) A t t h e t i m e o f t h e k i l l i n g t h e d e f e n d a n t w a s s u b j e c t to a c o u r t o r d e r r e s t r i c t in g
i n a ny w ay t h e d e f e n d a n t ’ s b e h av i o r to wa r d t h e v i c t i m o r a ny o t h e r o r d e r o f a c o u r t
o f c o m mo n p l e a s o r o f t h e m i n o r j u d i c ia r y d e s i g n a te d i n w h o l e o r i n p a r t to p r o te c t
t h e v i c t im f r o m t h e d e f e n d a n t
PA: MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES (8)
 (1) The defendant has no significant histor y of prior criminal convictions.
 (2) The defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional
disturbance.
 (3) The capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his
conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was
substantially impaired.
 (4) The age of the defendant at the time of the crime.
 (5) The defendant acted under extreme duress, although not such duress as
to constitute a defense to prosecuti on under 1 8 Pa.C.S. § 309 (relating to
duress), or acted under the substantial domination of another per son.
 (6) The victim was a par ticipant in the defendant’s homicidal conduct or
consented to the homicidal
acts.
 (7) The defendant’s par ticipation 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 of fense.
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 Quiz tomorrow!
 Finish your Case studies
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.
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Quiz is now
Wednesday!
Agenda and
objective: finish
going over
aggravating and
mitigating
circumstances,
video.
VIDEO
LAST MEALS PROJECT
LAST STATEMENTS
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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!