1. GOOD MORNING! REVIEW PRACTICE QUIZ  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

2.  Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty. WELCOME BACK!

3. STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT  Read the controversial experiment and answer the discussion questions  The experiment The experiment

4. THE DEATH PENALTY

5.  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? QUESTIONS

6. QUIZ

7.  Grab a computer or your mobile device  Finish your work on your Death Penalty questions (10 minutes) Finish your work on your Death Penalty questions  Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty. WELCOME BACK…BELL RINGER

8.  Quiz on Tuesday…What you need to know Agenda and Objective: Through notes and survey students will identify major issues over the death penalty. WELCOME BACK!

9.  Define Crime  Define Criminology  Causes of Crime  Factors contributing to crime  Ingredients of a crime  Description of hate crime offenders  Types of Punishment  Death penalty cases (matching)  Aggravating and mitigating factors FOR YOUR QUIZ

10.  Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972):The application of the death penalty is unconstitutional. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972):  Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976): The death penalty is constitutional. Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976):  Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977):Death sentences for the rape of an adult woman violate the Eighth Amendment. Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977):  Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002):The execution of a person with "mental retardation" violates the Eighth Amendment. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002):  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. Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005):  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. Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) COURT CASES YOU NEED TO KNOW…

11.  Federal Offenses Federal Offenses  States and the Death Penalty States and the Death Penalty  PA PA FACTS

12. FACTORS IN A DEATH PENALTY CASE Mitigating factors (background factors that work in the defendant's favor at sentencing) Aggravating factors("real offense" characteristics that 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

13. AGGRAVATINGAGGRAVATING VS. MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES

14.  (1)The murder was especially heinous, atrocious, cruel or depraved (or involved torture) (2) The capital offense was committed during the commission of, attempt of, or escape from a specified felony (such as robbery, kidnapping, rape, sodomy, arson, oral copulation, train wrecking, carjacking, criminal gang activity, drug dealing, or aircraft piracy) (3)The murder was committed incident to a high jacking (4) The defendant knowingly created a grave risk of death for one or more persons in addition to the victim of the offense (5) The defendant committed or attempted to commit more than one murder at the same time (6) The murder was committed for pecuniary gain or pursuant to an agreement that the defendant would receive something of value (7) The defendant caused or directed another to commit murder, or the defendant procured the commission of the offense by payment, promise of payment, or anything of pecuniary value (8) The defendant has been convicted of, or committed, a prior murder, a felony involving violence, or other serious felony (9)The victim was a child under 12 years of age (10)At the time of the killing the victim was in her third trimester of pregnancy or the defendant had knowledge of the victim’s pregnancy AGGRAVATING… PENNSYLVANIA (18)

15.  (11) The victim was a government employee, including peace officers, police officers, federal agents, firefighters, judges, jurors, defense attorneys, and prosecutors, in the course of his or her duties (12)The victim was a pubic servant concerned in official detention who was killed in the performance of his duties or as a result of his official position (13)The victim was the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, a deputy attorney general, district attorney, assistant district attorney, member of the general assembly, governor, lieutenant governor, auditor general, state treasurer who was killed in the performance of his duties or as a result of his official position (14)The murder was committed against a person held as a shield, as a hostage, or for ransom (15)The murder was committed against a witness in a criminal proceeding to prevent the witness from appearing (16)The victim was a nongovernmental informant and the defendant committed the murder or was an accomplice to the killing…and the killing was in retaliation for the victim’s activities (17)The victim was involved, associated, or in competition with the defendant in the sale, manufacture, distribution, or delivery of any controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance (18)At the time of the killing the defendant was subject to a court order restricting in any way the defendant’s behavior toward the victim or any other order of a court of common pleas or of the minor judiciary designated in whole or in part to protect the victim from the defendant CONTD…

16.  (1) The defendant has no significant history 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 prosecution under 18 Pa.C.S. § 309 (relating to duress), or acted under the substantial domination of another person.  (6) The victim was a participant in the defendant’s homicidal conduct or consented to the homicidal acts.  (7) The defendant’s participation 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 offense. PA: MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES (8)

17.  Quiz tomorrow!  Finish your Case studies WELCOME BACK!

18. 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.

19.  Quiz is now Wednesday!  Agenda and objective: finish going over aggravating and mitigating circumstances, video. WELCOME BACK!

20. VIDEO

21. LAST MEALS PROJECT LAST STATEMENTS

22.  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! WELCOME BACK!