A Discussion of the Roper V. Simmons Case

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A Discussion of the Roper V. Simmons Case

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Write a law discussion paper on the Roper V. Simmons Case.

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The initial case of 1997 involved the Supreme Court of Missouri versus Christopher Simmons where Christopher Simmons was handed a death penalty sentence for committing first-degree murder in 1994 as a seventeen-year-old. “Nine years later, the Missouri Supreme Court overturned Simmons’s sentence on the grounds that the public wouldn’t support juvenile executions and that such executions contradicted the Eighth Amendment. The State of Missouri appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.” (“Building a case”, 2017)

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