ROPER V. SIMMONS
Charlotte Blevin
Created on April 3, 2022
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Roper v. Simmons
START
PRESENTATION
Camille, zoé & charlotte
FACTS
Facts
The Simmons case began in Missouri in 1993. Christopher Simmons, who was 17 years old, hatched a plan to murder a woman named Shirley Crook. He involved two younger friends, Charles Benjamin and John Tessmer, in the plan. They planned to break into Crook's house, steal items, tie Crook up and throw her off a bridge. Tessmer abandoned the plan at the last minute. However, Simmons and Benjamin broke into Crook's house, drove her to a state park and threw her off a bridge.
Is execution of juveniles under 18 prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments ?
ISSUE
INDEX
I. Prior to Roper v. Simmons : a national consensus on the junevile death penalty
IN THE WORLD
28%
LOREM IPSUM
The death penalty in the United States is carried out at the federal level, by the military justice system, and in 26 of the country's 50 states.
IN THE USA
Thompson v. Oklahoma : the Supreme Court had prohibited the execution of criminals under the age of 16 at the time of the crime.
TIMELINE
1988
1989
1993
2002
2005
II. Development of the case
DECISION
5-4 VOTE
- Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined
- Concurring opinion : Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg
- Dissenting opinion : Justice O’Connor, Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, Chief Justice Rehnquist
AMENDMENTS
8th amendment
14th amendment
Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Thirteenth Amendment
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Justice Kennedy
- Minors are not as mature as adults
- Teenagers are more reckless and more likely to make decisions without thinking about them ;
- Teenagers have less control over their behaviour ;
- Teens are more likely to do things because of peer pressure, not because they want to ;
- The Court looked at what other countries around the world have done. They wrote that :
- Only 7 countries other than the US have executed juvenile offenders: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and China - since 1990, each of these 7 countries has stopped using the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The USA was the only country in the world to execute juvenile offenders
reasons
This is a prison sentence given to a convicted defendant in which they will remain in prison for their entire life and will not have the ability to a conditional release before they complete this sentence.
Imprisonment without parole :
The SCOTUS declared unconstitutional mandatory sentences of life imprisonment without parole for juvenile offenders. Judges need to be free to give lower sentences.
Graham v. Florida
Miller v. Alabama
The SCOTUS declared it unconstitutional to condemn a juvenile to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses.
2012 -
- 2010
FRANCE
The case of France
1981
Thank you for listening!
Why do you think the death penalty is such a controversial issue in the world ?
QUESTION
Camille, Zoé & Charlotte