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Dante would not be satisfied with the United State's Justice System. There is greater freedom after the rights of the people were established.
"the uneven tombs cover even the plain-/such fields I saw here, spread in all directions,/except that here the tombs were chests of pain:/for, in a ring around each tomb, great fires/raised every wall to a red heat."
-Canto IX
Justice System
-Set of agencies and processes
-Area of jurisdication
-Similar, individual systems
Main Systems:
State
-State boundaries
Federal
-Federal property
-+1 State
Entry Into System
Report
Investigation
Arrest/Citation
Trial Process
Plea Agreements:
Guilty
-dismissal of charges
-lesser degree of offense
-sentencing
Trial:
-bench or jury trial
-guilty or not guilty
-sentencing
Post Trial
Sentencing: Judge's choices
- Restitution
- Fines
- Probation
- Death Penalty
Would Dante be satisfied
with our justice system today compared to the punishments in Hell?
Heresy Today
- Belief or theory strongly at variance with established beliefs
- A "Choice" from "to choose"
- No established religion
- Contrary to Catholic faith
Circle 7: The Violent
"The first below are the violent. But as violence sins in three persons, so is that circle formed of three descending rounds of crueler torments."
-Canto XI
Usurers
Violent against art
(Grandchild)
Lending money with unusually
high interest rates (10%)
Violence against God/Nature/Art Today
Trial
Blasphemy: Violent against God
- Speaking sacrilegiously
Sodomites
Violent against nature
- Trayvon Martin
Unnatural forms of sexual intercourse
Illnois Nov.20th
Violence Today
- Zimmerman taken into custody & treated
- Florida's "Stand Your Ground" statute
- Charged with murder
- 1 month 3 day trial
- Aquitted of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter charges
Circle 7: The Violent:
Against Neighbors
Circle 7: Violent Against God, Nature, and Art
"And over all that sand on which they lay/ or crouched or roamed, great flakes of flame fell slowly/ as snow falls in the Alps on a windless day."
-Canto XIV
But turn your eyes to the valley; there we shall find/ the river of boiling blood in which are steeped all who struck down their fellow men."
-Canto XII
Would Dante be satisfied with our justice system today compared to the punishments in Hell?