Supreme Court Case: Weems V. US

In the case Weems V. US the US Supreme Court decided that though is has not been determined to what means is a punishment cruel and unusual. It was upheld, however; that the definition should not be held only to the”evil” described by the framers of the constitution. On May 3, 1946, a seventeen year old Willie Francis was convicted and was unsuccessfully executed through the means of an electric chair. Six days after the attempted execution, a new warrant of death was issued and so began the major US Supreme Court case known as the one and only Louisiana Ex rel. Francis V. Resweber. in a 5-4 decision, this act was not cruel and unusual beings that the state of Louisiana had acted in fully good faith while attempting the first execution. The US Supreme Court decided in the case Tropp V. Dulles that the decision of what is cruel and unusual must be living in the sense that the decision is maturing equally with today’s society. Another important US Supreme Court case is the case of Tyson V. Arizona. The US Supreme Court approved the use of capital punishments for convicts that participate in …show more content…
In the first, lives are taken and the justification is that one performed or related themselves to a capital crime knowing the impending consequences. In the second, innocent lives are taken to protect the free country in which one even has the right to protest and argue the topic of capital punishment. Abolitionists also have suggested that the death penalty could be wrongfully administered because some of the defense attorneys are not as qualified and experienced as others. This point is obnoxiously invalid and has no place in this argument because this statement in no way says how the death penalty is wrong or inhumane. To the abolitionist who believe that more minorities see capital punishment more than whites, that is a matter of discrimination not of the death penalty