Explain whether you feel the arguments presented in McKleskey v. Kemp warranted a finding of cruel and unusual punishment.
Explain whether you feel the arguments presented in McKleskey v. Kemp warranted a finding of cruel and unusual punishment. Given the Supreme Court rationale expressed in that case, discuss whether you feel that recent evidence about the number of wrongful convictions, especially the racial distribution of the exonerations, demonstrates sufficient unfairness to justify overturning the death penalty today.
Students should use academic research, government and professional data sources (UCR, NCVS, BJS), and news accounts from reputable and well-known news outlets (e.g. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Buffalo News, AP, Huff Post, etc.) to justify their arguments. The essays must follow a recognized manual of style for writing, formatting, and referencing sources. Assignments should be approximately 500 words in length. Students will be evaluated on the degree to which they address all elements of the assignment, correctly apply and integrate course material, logically connect conclusions to the materials presented.
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