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In six pages this paper examines how the Constitution of the United States continues to influence the American criminal justice system in three contemporary examples including capital punishment and the use of lethal injections, privacy rights for college students, and the private citizen’s right to bear arms. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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considerable judicial analysis. Historically, the final authority on criminal justice and how it is carried out has been the Constitution of the United States. But as times have
changed, so have interpretations of the Constitution and the intentions of the Founding Fathers. The US Supreme Court establishes precedents as to how the Constitution is to be applied
in contemporary cases, and its decisions have become more important than ever before in establishing distinctions between federal government and state government jurisdiction. Three examples of how the Constitution
continues to exert a profound influence upon the criminal justice system focus on recent and current cases pertaining to the Second, Fourth, and Eighth Amendments. Amendment VIII has long
been a topic of controversy with regard to the inclusion of the passage regarding the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments. Opponents of capital punishment have used the Eighth
Amendment to support its argument that the death penalty is unconstitutional. This is an issue that falls under the category of states rights, and with 36 states currently approving
capital punishment the Eighth Amendment is now being studied within the context of constitutionality of the form of execution a state uses. In the case of Baze v. Reese,
Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail presents a violation of their rights because of the suffering this type of lethal injection
can inflict if not properly performed (Kaveny, 2008). The petitioners argue that lethal injection could be more humanely implemented by the use of a barbiturate does sufficient to cause
death (Kaveny, 2008). The states response was that Kentuckys use of three drugs to perform lethal injection is in no way torturous and the condemned individual is not forced
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