What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in Furman v. Georgia and how did that ruling affect the death penalty in the United States in the short term and the long term?
What will be an ideal response?
The Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was constitutional, but that the methods that states used at the time violated the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
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Normally, to convict a person of a crime, the prosecution must prove that an actus reus occurred with a concurrent ________________
a. motive b. malice c. assumption of risk d. criminal intent
In what city was the 1950s Basque shadow government formed in response to the Spanish government repression of Basque culture?
a. Lisbon b. London c. Paris d. Marseilles
Many states have adopted a good _____ exception that permits the use of evidence because of a mistake by a judge, prosecutor, police dispatcher, or computer
a. outcome b. rationale c. purpose d. faith
The literature on policing has never focused on individual styles of policing
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false