Videotaped Executions Essay

Making Executions Public An execution, in the United States, can be authorized for a convicted criminal in five forms, including lethal injection, which is used in 33 states for an execution. A few states authorize an execution by electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, or firing squad. Shemtob and Lat offer a strong case about public executions, including, when a convict is executed the people have a constitutional right and responsibility to ensure that the convict on death row is administered…

from another accomplice in the planning of the murder, and a videotaped reenactment of the murder. At the age of 17, after a brief trial, Simmons was found guilty of the crimes and subsequently sentenced to death (Roper v. Simmons, n.d.). From prison, Simmons filed appeals to both state and federal courts, but with each, his sentence was upheld (Roper v. Simmons, n.d.). In 2002, the Missouri Supreme Court placed a stay of execution on Roper’s case while the United States Supreme Court…

two hours of interrogation, Simmons confessed to the murder and agreed to perform a videotaped reenactment at the crime scene. (Roper v. Simmons, 2005) "Simmons was outside the criminal jurisdiction of Missouri's juvenile court system" (Roper v. Simmons, 2005, p. 1). Therefore, the state charged Simmons with burglary, kidnapping, stealing, and murder in the first degree. After, Simmons' confession and the videotaped reenactment of the crime, Simmons was tried as an adult. Before trial Simmons…

confessed to the murder and agreed to perform a videotaped reenactment at the crime scene.The State charged Simmons with burglary, kidnaping, stealing, and murder in the first degree. As Simmons was 17 at the time of the crime, he was outside the criminal jurisdiction of Missouri’s juvenile court system. See Mo. Rev. Stat. §§211.021 (2000) and 211.031 (Supp. 2003). He was tried as an adult. At trial the State introduced Simmons’ confession and the videotaped reenactment of the crime, along with…

In the case of Roper versus Simmons, the question at hand is whether the execution of a human being who was17 years old when he committed a murder violated the Eight and Fourteenth Amendments pertaining to cruel and unusual punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). These Amendments forbid the obligation of the death penalty for those who suffered from a mental disability and who were insane should be prohibited from a sentence of capital punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). According to the Eighth and…

The essay “Executions Should Be Televised” was written by both Zachary Shemtob and David Lat. Shemtob is a teacher at Central Connecticut State University and teaches Criminal Justice. While Lat is not a teacher or professor, he is a former federal prosecutor. Based on professions, these men have dealt with capital punishment and have some form of background knowledge of the filming concerned with executions. The essay “Executions Should Be Televised” that Shemtob and Lat co-wrote was published…

window and carried out the crime as planned without Tessmer, who dropped out of the plan. Simmons had no criminal history but because of the overwhelming evidence, a testimony from his younger friend Tessmer, Simmons confession to the murder, and videotaped reenactment at the crime the court considered the murder…

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stealing, and murder in the first degree. As Simmons was 17 at the time of the crime, he was outside the criminal jurisdiction of Missouri’s juvenile court system. He was tried as an adult. At trial the State introduced Simmons’ confession and the videotaped reenactment of the crime, along with testimony that Simmons discussed the crime in advance and bragged about it later. The defense called no witnesses in the guilt phase.…

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