Gregg v. Georgia

Gregg v. Georgia 428 US 153 (1976) History: The case of Gregg v. Georgia originated in the state of Georgia. The case originally took place in the Georgia Supreme court where the petitioner originally pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them. From there the petitioner challenged the decision and said the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth and fourteenth amendments. From this stage the case was then heard by the United States Supreme Courts. The United States Supreme Court, however rejected Gregg’s claim and confirmed the decision made by the Georgia Supreme Court that Gregg would be sentenced to death. Facts: The petitioner who brought up this particular case was by a man named Troy Gregg. The petitioner…

The case of Gregg v. Georgia starts with a man named Troy Gregg. Troy was imprisoned by the state of Georgia after he was found guilty of armed robbery and murdering two people in 1973. Following Gregg’s trial, the jury found Tory Gregg guilty and sentenced him to death. Troy challenged his remaining death sentence for murder, asked for an appeal, and claimed that his capital sentence was cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the 8th amendment. The Georgia state court ruled that the…

Written Assignment #2 Stephen M. Diplan Intro to Corrections John Jay College of Criminal Justice Gregg v. Georgia decision legalized capital punishment in the USA. The law was adopted in connection to the crimes committed by Troy Leon Gregg - hence is the name. The trial was held in Georgia and the Georgian Supreme Court considered two options – either life-prison sentence or capital punishment (Legal Information Institute). The juries were presented with evidence and could not…

Whether the death penalty should be used is often a debated topic between the science of killing someone for their crimes, or the more religious beliefs that it is cruel and unusual to use the death penalty. When considering people who were sentenced to the death penalty like Gregg, Penry, and Baze. As well as what all of them did to deserve the death penalty, it shows that the death penalty should be punishment in criminal cases. Gregg v. Georgia is one of five trials that took place after…

In 1976, a man named Troy Leon Gregg was charged and convicted of armed robbery and murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. In accordance with the Georgia procedure in capital cases, the trial must be in two stages, a guilt stage and a sentencing stage and after both stages, Troy Gregg was ultimately sentenced to death for the murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. Unfortunately, due to the 1972 case, Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court established that the death penalty system was…

In Furman v. Georgia, William Henry Furman was robbing a house and the person that lived there discovered Furman. Furman by accident he claimed, as he was leaving the house he tripped and his firearm shot the owner killing him. His previous statement had been that he had turned and blindly shot the victim. He was found guilty of committing murder during a robbery and was punished to death. However, Furman was never put to death. The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision the court decided that…

Alejandrina Carreno Mrs. Kemp Civics May 3, 2015 Gregg v. Georgia The case of Gregg v. Georgia involved the case of Troy Gregg versus the state of Georgia. The case was decided by the United States Supreme Court in July of 1976 in which involved the sentencing of the death penalty. Troy Leon Gregg, was arrested in 1973 due to armed robbery and murder convictions, it was believed that Gregg was involved in the robbery and murder of two men in Georgia. The convicted felon…

Helms (1983), which strived to apply a test to determine whether or not a punishment was proportional to its crime, especially in regards to death penalty jurisprudence, and by addressing the purpose behind the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153 1976), to determine whether or not it was inherently cruel and unusual. Explicitly in Gregg v. Georgia, Justice Stewart remarks in his majority opinion that the death penalty “serve[s] two principal social purposes: retribution and…

Introduction The death penalty is one off the premier issues facing not only criminal justice professionals, but every day citizens as well. The purpose of this paper is to examine the death penalty in the United States including ways to carry out and arguments to abolish, the costs involved, and possible alternatives. “In 1972, the Supreme Court declared that under then-existing laws ‘the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty… constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation…

death penalty. The first is Kennedy v Louisiana. Patrick Kennedy raped his eight-year-old stepdaughter. Louisiana state authorized capital punishment because she was under twelve. Although, the Eighth Amendment kept Louisiana from imposing death because the crime did not result or was intended to result in death. In Baze v Rees, Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling were convicted for murder and received death penalties in Kentucky. They argued that the Eighth Amendment banned the lethal injection…