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Roper v. Simmons
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Roper v. Simmons
By: Heaven Tsegay &
Alma
Background
Consitutional Question
- Christopher Simmons killed Shirley Crook.
- 17 when committed crime
- Is Missouri's law of executing minors constitutional?
- did not commit crime alone
- physically and mentally abused by stepfather
- Had a drug and alcohol problem
- 8th Amendment - cruel and unusual punishment
- Mental Illness
Dissenting Opinion
- 18 out of 38 death penalty states (47%) prohibited the execution of juveniles
- "court improperly substituted it's own judgement for that of the people in outlawing executionsof juvenile offenders"
Our Position
- Counting non death penalty states
- Simmons should not have gotten the death penalty.
- He was a minor.
- Was mentally ill.
Related Cases
Majority opinion
- Vote of 5-4
- Virginia, Shermaine A. Johnson(16) - Raped and murdered.
- Oklahoma, William Wayne Thompson(15) - murdered.
- Kentucky, Kevin Stanford (17) - Raped and murdered.
- "when a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the state can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the state cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity"
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