Roper v. Simmons Opinion Announcement - U.S. Supreme Court

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Roper v. Simmons Opinion Announcement - U.S Supreme Court March 1, 2005

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0:00.0	Justice Kennedy has the opinion of the court to announce in Roper against Simmons.
0:05.0	The present case involves a death sentence imposed on Christopher Simmons for a murder he committed at the age of 17 in the state of Missouri. Along with another juvenile even younger
0:15.7	than he was, Simmons broke into the home of a lady named Shirley Crook. They bound and gagged her using
0:22.2	ropes and duct tape and then drove her on her own car to a railroad trestle standing a river.
0:28.0	Simmons and his accomplice bound Mrs. Crook more securely and then threw her from the trestle, drowning her in the waters below.
0:35.2	There is no doubt that Simmons is guilty of the offense.
0:38.7	There were aggravating factors of the crime, making it heinous and cruel. Missouri statute has three separate provisions for
0:45.8	aggregation, all of which the jury found complied with in the sentencing phase.
0:50.5	And in addition to the cruel manner of the killing, it must be noted that Simmons
0:55.6	planted in advance.
0:57.4	He told his friends, one who became the accomplice, that they could get away with it because
1:01.9	they were minors. And even as the family was learning Mr. was and a half ago in 1989 the court held in Stanford versus Kentucky that the Constitution
1:15.4	allows states to impose the death penalty on an offender who was 16 or 17 years old when
1:21.6	he committed the crime.
1:23.3	In today's case, Simmons argues that we should depart from Stanford,
1:26.7	despite its recent date, just as we have departed from an earlier rule regarding
1:30.1	execution of the mentally retarded. Three terms ago in Atkins versus Virginia, we announced
1:37.0	the categorical rule prohibiting the execution of the mentally retarded over ruling an earlier
1:42.0	case or departing from an earlier case.
1:44.8	Simmons says we should announce a similar categorical rule prohibiting the execution of juveniles.
1:50.8	The Missouri Supreme Court agreed with Simmons on that proposition and set aside his death sentence and we now review that decision.
1:58.0	The Eighth Amendment, which applies to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.
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