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CHAPTER 9-10
Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 8th Amendment | Excessive bail fines or unusual and cruel punishment or permitted |
| First recored execution | Captain Georges candle in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608 |
| First state to adopt death penalty statue | Tennessee |
| Homicide | Killing of another human |
| Mens rea Homicide components | Intentional, knowing, reckless, negligence |
| Second degree murder | Deaths caused by an intentional killing's that are not permitted, justified, or excused. |
| Rape | Sexual penetration of another person by force without the other person's consent |
| Statutory rape | Sexual intercourse with a minor |
| A person convicted of first-degree murder shall be punished by | Death Or imprisonment for life without possibility of parole |