Notes+and+Sources

[] "Death Penalty Under Examination." //State Legislatures// 35.6 (2009): 10. //Academic Search Elite//. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010. [] "Roper v. Sullivan The Supreme Court Prohibits the Execution of Minors." //Supreme Court Debates// 13.1 (2010): 6-8. //Academic Search Elite//. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010. []
 * New Mexico decides to abolish death penalty with a new law
 * replaced death penalty with a life sentence without parole
 * Two men on death row will not be affected by the law
 * Capital punishment for minors Constitutionally prohibited
 * eighth ammendment protects US citizens from "cruel and unusual punishment"
 * fourteenth ammendment:"...enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States..."
 * ** Fourteenth Amendment site :
 * Background: bound, gagged, robbed, and drowned.
 * I don't think that such 'cruel and unusual' treatment should be tolerated. I think that the punishment should fit the crime.

What's the Last Word in Capital Punishment? [] WHAT'S THE LAST WORD IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?." //Newsweek// 154.22 (2009): 60. //Academic Search Elite//. EBSCO. Web. 31 Mar. 2010. [] Does Sentencing a 13-Year-Old Offender to Life Without Parole Constitute "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"?." //Supreme Court Debates// 13.1 (2010): 2. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 2 Apr. 2010. [] Jacobs, David, and Jason T. Carmichael. "Ideology, Social Threat, and the Death Sentence: Capital Sentences across Time and Space." //Social Forces// 83.1 (2004): 249-278. //ERIC//. EBSCO. Web. 6 Apr. 2010. the information necessary to study the number of these sentences" >
 * Love is the most used word. I wonder why.
 * " ...condemning someone to die for crimes committed while under 18 was an unnecessarily harsh punishment"
 * "During the 1980s and 1990s, some States faced what they perceived to be a growing epidemic of juvenile crime. To address it, many allowed more minors to be tried as adults,modified parole procedures to make them more stringent, or abolished parole altogether."
 * " Death sentences are extremely unusual, so no existing court data sets furnish
 * The economy plays a big role in the number of death sentences that are committed each year.
 * Death sentences are usually given because of biases.( race, sex, religion based)