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No!

Dante would not be satisfied with the United State's Justice System. There is greater freedom after the rights of the people were established.

Circle 6: The Heretics

"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

Dante's Inferno: Cantos IX-XVII

Circles 6 and 7

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?

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