Final Exam

Question 1

Null strategy meaning (in regards to population)

Answer 1

The strategy of doing nothing to relieve crowding in prisons, under the assumption that the problem is temporary and will disappear in time

Question 2

Construction strategy meaning (in regards to population)

Answer 2

The strategy of building facilities to meet the demand for prison space

Question 3

Firman vs Georgie case

Answer 3

The Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty itself is not unconstitutional, but the way it was administered constituted cruel and unusual punishment. The decision invalidated the death penalty laws in 39 states and the District of Columbia

Question 4

Gregg vs Georgia

Answer 4

Court upheld laws that require the sentencing judge or jury to take into account specific aggravating and mitigating factors in deciding which convicted murderers should be sentenced to death

Question 5

McClenskey vs kemp

Answer 5

A case in which the court rejected a challenge on the grounds of racial discrimination to Georgia’s death penalty law

Question 6

Atkinson vs Virginia

Answer 6

The ruling was that execution of the developmentally disabled was unconstitutional

Question 7

Ring vs Arizona

Answer 7

The supreme court ruled that juries, rather than judges, must make the crucial factual decisions about whether a convicted murderer should receive the death penalty

Question 8

Roper vs Simmons

Answer 8

A majority of the justices decided that convicted individuals cannot be sentenced to death for crimes they committed before they reach the age of 18

Question 9

Ford vs wainwright

Answer 9

A case in which the defendant was not suggested to be mentally incompetent during the trial. Only after he was incarcerated he begin to exhibit delusional behaviors. It’s the case that brings about the discussion as to whether people who become mentally disabled while incarcerated should be exempt from execution.

Question 10

Strickland vs Washington

Answer 10

The supreme court ruled that people accused in capital cases have the right to representation that meets and “objective standard of reasonableness.“ (they can have an experienced lawyer)

Question 11

Witherspoon vs Illinois

Answer 11

The Supreme Court held that potential jurors who have general objections to the death penalty or whose religious convictions oppose its use cannot be automatically excluded from jury service in capital cases

Question 12

Uttecht vs Brown

Answer 12

The Supreme Court enhance the states ability to remove potential jurors with doubts about the death penalty

Question 13

What is the biggest demographic predictor of attitudes towards the death penalty?

Answer 13

Race

Question 14

Kennedy versus Louisiana

Answer 14

The US Supreme Court in a 5–4 decision held that a capital sentence where the crime did not involve murder was in violation of the eighth and 14th amendments

Question 15

Coker vs Georgia

Answer 15

Ruled that the use of the death penalty for rape of an adult was unconstitutional

Question 16

During the 1990s, ___ percent of the state death sentences or overturn during the first level of appeals process

Answer 16

26%

Question 17

McCleskey v Zant

Answer 17

The court ruled that, except in exceptional circumstances, the lower federal courts must dismiss a persons second and subsequent habeas corpus petitions

Question 18

In the year ______ President Clinton signed the anti-terrorism and effective death penalty act

Answer 18

1996

Question 19

Medellin vs Texas

Answer 19

Vienna convention