Read this case in your textbook and brief the case. Play close attention to the ruling of the court. In your "legal toolkit" module, you should have a tab that shows you "how to brief " a case. Once you access the link, I want you to follow the "student brief" to help you with this assignment.

Did sentencing 17-year-old Christopher Simmons to death for murder constitute cruel and unusual punishment? Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005). Opinion by Kennedy, J.

This case requires us to address whether it is permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States to execute a juvenile offender who was older than fifteen but younger than eighteen when he committed a capital crime.

CITATION: Contemporary Criminal Law: Concepts, Cases, & Controversies - Lippman 5th Edition

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