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Decision making bounded by general guidelines,rules,or laws is known as _____.

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Question 32

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In 1976,the Supreme Court rejected mandatory death penalty statutes in the case of:

A) Furman v.Georgia.
B) Gregg v.Georgia.
C) Woodson v.North Carolina.
D) Witherspoon v.Illinois.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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In 1972,the case of _____ ruled that the application of the death penalty,as it was then being carried out,was unconstitutional and set aside 40 death penalty statutes.

After a brief moratorium,from 1968 to 1977,_____ was the first person to be executed,by the state of Utah.

On June 19,2002,the Supreme Court held in _____ that the execution of the mentally retarded is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

Today,the Federal government uses _____ for executions.

The Liebman study concluded the overall rate of prejudicial error in the American capital punishment system is:

Today,the federal government uses _____ for executions.

In 1988,President Reagan signed into the law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

The method of execution for federal prisoners prosecuted under the Code of Federal Regulations is:

A prison area housing inmates who have been sentenced to death is known as _____.

As a consequence of the Furman decision,the laws of all states require that legal issues about the trial and sentencing be:

A death sentence that the legislature has required to be imposed upon people convicted of certain offenses is called a _____.

In the case of _____,the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to sentence a 15-year-old to death.

Which of the following statements is true of the Federal Death Penalty Act?

In the case of _____ the Court held that a potential juror's mere reservation about the death penalty was insufficient grounds to prevent that person from serving on the jury in a death penalty.

Factors that,although not justifying or excusing an action,may reduce the culpability of the offender are called _____.

From 1972,the year of the Supreme Court's Furman decision until the late 1980s,federal capital prosecutions were rare.

The _____ leads the United States in executions.

The Supreme Court ruled in _____ that it was unconstitutional and a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment to execute people for crimes that were committed before turning age 18.