Cruel and Unusual Punishment Instructions Use the links to watch each video and answer each question in detail in your notebook Also write up one openended question for each video You will need your responses and questions for a classroom discussion ID: 589711
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The 8th Amendment:Cruel and Unusual PunishmentSlide2
Class discussion
Each individual has a poker chip and at random will be asked to share at their response/position.
Chips will be drawn to give people the opportunity to share their perspective or to pose their open-ended question to the class.
Process continues through all four issues.Slide3
Instructions
Use the links to watch each video and answer each question in detail in your notebook.
Also write up one open-ended question for each video.
You will need your responses and questions for a classroom discussion.Slide4
Use los enlaces para ver cada video y responder cada pregunta en detalle en su cuaderno.
También
escriba una pregunta abierta para cada video.
Necesitará
sus respuestas y preguntas para una discusión en el aula.
instrucciones
Slide5
The Eighth Amendment
P
rohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment.Slide6
Mandatory sentencing-Video 1-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hTTiT0ATA
Video 2
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86627p2eR8&t=240s
Do you believe that mandatory sentencing deters individuals from committing crimes? Should mandatory sentencing apply to juveniles?
Are these laws a form of cruel and unusual punishment?Slide7
Mandatory sentencing-Video 1-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_hTTiT0ATA
Video 2
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86627p2eR8&t=240s
¿
Cree que las sentencias obligatorias disuaden a las personas de cometer crímenes?
¿
Debería aplicarse la sentencia obligatoria a los menores?
¿
Son estas leyes una forma de castigo cruel e inusual?Slide8
Drug charges and Mandatory sentencing-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPSIJJAlMHg
Marijuana has now become legal in many states and in Mr.
Mizanskey’s
case he was released. Should states revisit the sentencing in the cases of those convicted prior to the passing of new laws and possibly release them from prison?
Make a case for keeping them in prison or releasing them or both.Slide9
Drug charges and Mandatory sentencing-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPSIJJAlMHg
La
marihuana ahora se ha vuelto legal en muchos estados y en el caso del Sr.
Mizanskey
fue liberado. ¿Deberían los estados revisar la sentencia en los casos de los condenados antes de la aprobación de nuevas leyes y posiblemente liberarlos de la prisión?
Haga
un caso para mantenerlos en prisión o liberarlos o ambos.Slide10
Solitary confinement-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siIPV0rvD2Q
Watch video to minute 21 and answer the question in your notebook
Does solitary confinement violate a persons constitutional right of cruel and unusual punishment or an essential tool to keep prisoners and staff safe?Slide11
Solitary confinement-www.pbs.org/video/frontline-solitary-nation-show/
Mira
el video al minuto 21 y responde la pregunta en tu cuaderno
¿
Viola el confinamiento solitario el derecho constitucional de las personas a un castigo cruel e inusual o una herramienta esencial para mantener a los prisioneros y al personal a salvo?Slide12
Mandatory Sentencing and Solitary confinement for Juveniles
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0xmAA6lPhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEf4cOisDk
Should mandatory sentencing and solitary confinement apply to juveniles? What may be some of the future consequences for both the juvenile and our communities?
¿Deben aplicarse las sentencias obligatorias y el régimen de aislamiento a los menores? ¿Cuáles pueden ser algunas de las consecuencias futuras tanto para el joven
y para
nuestras comunidades?Slide13
Misidentification and wrongful convictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SBTRLoPuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4V6aoYuDcg&t=394s
As technology has improved there have been a number of cases that have had the convictions overturned because of DNA, which has led to a discussion of creating DNA banks. That is for individuals to voluntarily or in the view of some to give a sample of their DNA mandatorily to avoid wrongful convictions and to find criminals at large.
Would you support such process or law if proposed? What do you see as a major concern for people? Slide14
Misidentification and wrongful convictionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SBTRLoPuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4V6aoYuDcg&t=394s
A medida que la tecnología ha mejorado, ha habido una serie de casos en los que las convicciones han sido anuladas debido al ADN, lo que ha llevado a una discusión sobre la creación de bancos de ADN. Eso es para que los individuos voluntariamente o en opinión de algunos den una muestra de su ADN obligatoriamente para evitar condenas erróneas y para encontrar criminales en general.
¿
Apoyarías tal proceso o ley si te propusieran? ¿Qué ves como una gran preocupación para las personas?Slide15
Death Penalty
The death penalty was declared unconstitutional in 1972, but was reinstated in 1976, after procedural changes were implemented.Slide16
No Video-Personal perspective write up in notebook.
Are you in favor or against the use of the death penalty? Explain your rational for its use or abolishment. Also, be specific as to what crimes you believe it should be used in.
¿Estás a favor o en contra del uso de la pena de muerte? Explica tu racionalidad para su uso o abolición. Además, sea específico en cuanto a los crímenes en los que cree que debería usarse.