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This 4 page paper evaluates this appeal to the Supreme Court regarding a death penalty issue. The paper argues that the Court did not consider enough evidence pertinent to the ideation of the death penalty in America today. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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but not yet decided. It concerns the minimum age as it respects capital punishment and this includes an evolution of the eighth and fourteenth amendments (2004). The Missouri case
involves the Supreme Court of Missouri. Charges are that the Court departed from the holding in Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), where the Court claimed that statutes
were relevant only to those who are sixteen years and older (2004). The order of the Supreme Court regarding this case is as follows: "The motion of respondent for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted" (2004). A student writing on this topic should noted that the term forma pauperis
refers to the fact that the proceedings will take place regardless of the financial position of the defendant and the writ of certiorari is actually a higher court requesting documentation
from a lower court, as is the case here. The facts of the case involves Christopher Simmons, who is responsible for the murder of Shirley Crook ("Donald," 2004) . Simmons
was seventeen years old at the time of the murder (2004). He had been convicted of first-degree murder and then sentenced to death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent
here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in respect to the Court making the decision to allow the death penalty in this case, something that
serves as a reason for the appeal. The decision, according to documentation found at the Findlaw web site, raises two questions, one of which is whether or not
the method is "cruel and unusual" as specified by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and whether a "lower court reach a contrary decision based on its own analysis of evolving
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