Learning Target: Students will know the basic core beliefs of the two major American political parties. Students will be able to make informed decisions about major American political issues.
Circle: Say you believe the death penalty is a good thing, what actions do you think should warrant the potential for death row (other than murder)? What would be the one food you couldn't live without?
World Issues Project: Students will have 20 minutes to work on their World Issues Projects.
Types of Murder:
- 1st Degree: Murder that is premeditated.
- 2nd Degree: Murder that is not premeditated.
- Felony Murder: Killing someone while in the act of a felony, everyone involved is accused.
- Voluntary Manslaughter: The intent to harm, accidentally killing.
- Involuntary Manslaughter: Being reckless, but with no intent to harm someone.
- Justifiable Homicide: Killing someone in self defense of yourself or other people.
States w/ & w/o Death Penalty: https://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=001172
Currently on Death Row: We will be looking at a list of people currently on death row and what they did to get there. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-row-prisoners
Criteria: Here is the list of each states criteria for eligibility to be on death row. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/crimes-punishable-death-penalty
Which Person Got Death Row?: We will be looking at three stories and determining which one got death row.
-Jerome Manning: In 1992 he killed two college students, then five weeks later, a 90 and 60 year old in an attempted robbery.
- Andre Crawford: Killed 11 women over the course of 6 years, raping all of them before killing them.
Case Against:
-Less than 2% of known murderers end up on death row.
-People who may have been innocent: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executed-possibly-innocent
-Lester Bower: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/lester-bower-execution-texas-118993
- Botched Killings: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/some-examples-post-furman-botched-executions
Case For:
- It's cheaper to put someone on death row than life in prison. 30-60 thousand dollars per year. Lethal injection is about 16,500 dollars.
- Say the punishment should match the crime.
- Crime deterrent.
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