Chapter 8 Test Questions

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. Black-on-Black murders are _____________ on death row:

Overrepresented correct incorrect

Underrepresented correct incorrect

Equally represented correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Black-on-White murders are _____________ on death row:

Overrepresented correct incorrect

Underrepresented correct incorrect

Equally represented correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Homicide is overwhelmingly interracial.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. This was the last year a juvenile was given the death sentence and executed in the U.S.:

1983 correct incorrect

1993 correct incorrect

2003 correct incorrect

2013 correct incorrect

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. The first separate court for juveniles was in 1899 in:

Chicago correct incorrect

Charleston correct incorrect

Atlanta correct incorrect

Dallas correct incorrect

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. The court cases, Thompson v. Oklahoma and Stanford v. Kentucky, taken together:

Demonstrate racial discrimination in capital sentencing correct incorrect

Set the minimum standard age as 16 for the death penalty correct incorrect

Banned the death penalty for the mentally challenged correct incorrect

Banned the death penalty for rape correct incorrect

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. The ruling in this case by the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for juveniles:

Eddings v. Oklahoma correct incorrect

Thompson v. Oklahoma correct incorrect

Stanford v. Kentucky correct incorrect

Roper v. Simmons correct incorrect

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. As of December 2014, how many women are currently on death row?

45 correct incorrect

59 correct incorrect

68 correct incorrect

77 correct incorrect

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. How many women have been executed since 1976?

14 correct incorrect

21 correct incorrect

30 correct incorrect

42 correct incorrect

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. It is unconstitutionally permissible to execute both the mentally disabled and the mentally ill.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In this court case, the Supreme Court ruled that an inmate in prison may be involuntarily medicated if the inmate is dangerous to himself or others, and the treatment is in the inmate's medical interest:

Atkins v. Virginia correct incorrect

Jackson v. Indiana correct incorrect

Panetti v. Quarterman correct incorrect

Washington v. Harper correct incorrect