Extractions: March 3, 2005 Associated Press Writer Gary Tanner is reporting that a 14-year-old male high school freshman has been charged with shooting his womyn school bus driver in Tennessee.(1) Already, a "public defender" Jack Lockert is attributing the act to mental illness: "We obviously feel like he has severe mental issues. He's an A and B student and had never been in trouble before." In Tennessee, "Community members" are shocked at the alleged "murderer," who apparently has "mental issues."(3) Supposedly, the only thing the bus driver did was "discipline" the student for using some tobaccoand profanity. We at MIM Notes could likewise make assumptions about the driverthat she was a serial rapist of children for example. This would give adults a taste of their own medicinewhat it's like to make assumptions. One thing for sure, we do not believe the media selling newspapers on this story when it says that the suspect is just crazy. We also have no respect for defense attorneys leaping up to pin the crazy label without investigation. If the story about tobacco and profanity is true, then it is true that imperialist decadence has found its way into Amerikan children. The callous murder would be an example of a system's problem, not occasional "craziness," as if this were an individual problem, when not all countries have nearly the problem with street crime murder and state-organized mass murder known as war.
Death Penalty Religious: Rev. John Marsh On The Death Penalty We work with official religious bodies to aid antideath penalty activism in each I was in a high school rhetoric class learning the art of debate. http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/education/sermons/marsh.html
Extractions: When Elizabeth Fry, an English Quaker who lived in the 1700s, spoke against capital punishment, she was dismissed as a hopeless idealist. When the Unitarians and Universalists merged their denominations in 1961, a call for abolishing capital punishment was one of the very first decisions made by the new denomination. By that time many nations had already abolished the death penalty, and it seemed that we were on our way. One argument that I did not put forth was that the relatives of the victims might gain emotional satisfaction from having the convicted killer of their loved ones put to death. It seemed completely barbaric and counter to everything we had ever been taught in school, church or home. One of the first rules of the playground is that just because someone hits you does not mean that you get to hit them back. Then, three years later the Supreme Court made a number of decisions that enabled states to reinstitute the death penalty. In Utah in 1977, Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad after protests, vigils, marches and profuse public soul-searching. I remember much was made of the fact that Gilmore wanted to be executed, although very few proponents of the death penalty are strong advocates for criminals having that much say about the sentences given to them. With the execution of Gary Gilmore, the reintroduction of the death penalty inthis country was under way.
Put The Title Of The Lesson Here You are a student editor of your American high school newspaper. and instructs a high school student body in a foreign country about the death penalty http://www.atschool.org/teachers/portfolios/rgrant.htm
Extractions: robe9gra@aol.com Introduction T a sk ... s The death penalty, or capital punishment, has been a controversial subject in the United States for many years. The first person executed for murder among settlers in America was hanged in 1630. Public protest against the death penalty gradually reduced the number of executions from a peak of 199 in 1935 to only one in 1967. For the next decade, executions were halted while the courts reviewed the issues. There was a period from 1972 to 1976 that capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The reason for the decision was that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. In 1976, the decision was reversed when new methods of execution were introduced. At the end of 1996, the following statistics applied to persons under sentence of death: 1,820 were white (259 were Hispanic) 1,349 were black 24 were Native American 18 were Asian 8 were classified as other race 48 were women 2 in 3 had prior felony convictions 1 in 12 had prior homicide convictions the average age at the time of arrest was 28 (about 2 percent were juveniles at the time of their arrest) the youngest person on death row was 17, and the oldest was 81
CUADP: For Alternatives To The Death Penalty. CUADP works to find alernatives to the death penalty through abolitionist On May 14th, 1985, four ninth grade girls from the local high school come to http://www.cuadp.org/abdaytour04/SpeakerBios.htm
Extractions: Home $$Donate Contact About ... AbolitionWear There's nothing like experience This February, The Journey of Hope From Violence to Healing and Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) are working with activists from Seattle to San Diego to bring a compelling and emotional educational program to your community. Please contact abe@cuadp.org to learn how to get on the schedule. Click here to print a flyer featuring these biographies and feedback from previous panel hosts. Juan Melendez: Juan Roberto Melendez Colon became the 24th person exonerated and released from Florida's death row when he was freed on January 3, 2002 after spending 17 years, eight months and one day facing execution for a crime he did not commit. Melendez was convicted in 1984 at the age of 33 with no physical evidence linking him to the crime and testimony from questionable witnesses. In fact, prosecutors hid evidence and lied to the court in order to protect the real killer, a police informant. Melendez's conviction fell apart when the police informant's confession came to light in 1999 - a confession that prosecutors knew about before they took Melendez to trial. More information about this case is available on the internet at: www.fadp.org/24threlease.html
Extractions: Alex Dale Thomas told The Press Democrat Tuesday that he did the worst thing and wants to die to help ease the minds his victim's family. Dale Thomas was convicted two weeks ago of raping and killing 18 year old Michelle Montoya on campus three years ago. The jury is scheduled to decide next week if Thomas should get the death penalty or life in prison. MORE STORIES FROM TODAY Gas leak closes a busy road and a restaurant in Citrus Heights
Law-Related Education death penalty Curricula for high school, STUDENT EDITION Famous Trials, by Doug Linder (2004) Available from the University of MissouriKansas school of http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib/education.htm
Extractions: September 17 th of each year Teacher Resources for Discussing the War in Iraq with Students National Center for Children Exposed to Violence: The topic for 2005 is The American Jury its origins, evolution, and function in a democratic society... Students will also learn about jury systems of other countries. Constitutional Rights Foundation: War in Iraq, Online Lessons and Research Links Educators for Social Reponsibility (ESR): Understanding War "These lessons are intended to help teachers put issues of current global conflict into an ethical, historical, and cultural context, while encouraging students to think critically and discuss differing perspectives." TeachersFirst.com - Conflict In Iraq:
American Civil Liberties Union : Youth Activist Scholarships For me, being a gay high school student meant either dealing with the words, Benjamin Waxman has been active in the antideath penalty movement as well http://www.aclu.org/TakeAction/TakeAction.cfm?ID=12721&c=242
American Civil Liberties Union Students Converge On students Converge on Pennsylvania s Capitol to Protest the death penalty HARRISBURG, PAHigh school and college students will rally on the steps of the http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenalty.cfm?ID=14033&c=17
A Virtual Library Of Useful URLs - 371.3 WebQuests Main Menu death penalty Curricular for high school (Unit Lesson Plans), Teacher, Student and Parent Connections. Daily Lesson Plans for Grades 612 http://www.aresearchguide.com/webquests.html
Extractions: Webquest Sites CyberSmart! Curriculum A free k-8 curriculum empowering students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. Contents: Curriculum Overview, Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets, Using the Curriculum, and Technology Standards Alignment Buddy Project: Teacher Resources . Lesson Plans. Site aims to help you integrate technology into the classroom with a 3-D model: Develop, Design, and Deliver. Philosophical Day-Trippers . A WebQuest for Grades 10-12 (Introduction to Philosophy Class) from the classroom of Mr. Colletti. Personality Theories: A Web Quest for Advanced Placement Psychology by Christine Zafonte. Understanding Experimentation in Psychology: A Web Quest for Psychology 101 designed by Bernard Schuster. 292.1 Classical mythology, (Greek mythology), (Roman mythology)
Equity In The Classroom: Vianca Trinidad-Lara high school, recently helped to form an outspoken student activist group Topics included the Iraq War, the death penalty, AIDS, Latin America, http://www.teachingforchange.org/equity_practices/vianca_trinidad.htm
Captain's Quarters Educational death penalty For Supporting Corporal Punishment? 12 years ago, when I was a senior at a Jesuit high school I was smacked upside the head by http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/003704.php
Extractions: January 31, 2005 Educational Death Penalty For Supporting Corporal Punishment? CQ reader Dave Mendoza points me to an article that appeared in last week's Daily Orange, the campus newspaper of Syracuse University, regarding the expulsion of Scott McConnell from nearby LeMoyne College. McConnell, a graduate student in education, does not fit LeMoyne's atmosphere of political correctness. He believes in corporal punishment and rejects the focus on multiculturalism in the classroom: While students are guaranteed the freedom of speech, LeMoyne College's recent actions against a student have raised questions of whether or not academic papers are the place to exercise this right. LeMoyne College expelled Scott McConnell, a student from its Masters of Education program, for writing a paper in which he advocated the use of corporal punishment in schools, he said. The paper, written for a class on classroom management, originally earned McConnell an A-. However, when he attempted to enroll in classes for the spring semester, he found he couldn't.
Amnesty International USA: Amnesty In Action All Amnesty high school groups will receive a bimonthly high school Action Pack which include the Stop Violence Against Women Campaign, death penalty http://www.amnestyusa.org/activist_toolkit/amnestyinaction/
Extractions: All Amnesty high school groups will receive a bi-monthly High School Action Pack in the mail. This will include the National Week of Student Action in the spring. Each High School Action Pack will provide specific human rights actions and activities, outreach projects and skill building activities. High school groups with additional time and people power can also sign up for campaigns and networks in the Human Rights Action Guide. COLLEGE AND LOCAL GROUPS Amnesty college and local groups (along with interested high school groups) can use the printed Human Rights Action Guide that came with your Activist Toolkit to decide what your group will work on during the coming year. It provides descriptions of Amnesty campaigns, priorities, networks, and casework. It also includes an easy-to-use sign up form. Follow these simple steps: STEP 1: Review the Human Rights Action Guide. It provides basic information about the options, key time frames for various actions and what resources you will receive when you sign up.
Amnesty International USA: Patrick Stewart Fellowships An AI student activist herself at her high school in Seattle, Washington, work during a high school internship with the ACLU s death penalty Project. http://www.amnestyusa.org/patrickstewart/projects/class.html
Extractions: Sonya was 15 when her father received an e-mail about the Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship from Amnesty International USA. An AI student activist herself at her high school in Seattle, Washington, she applied and was awarded a scholarship. Four months later she took part in the Leaders Today Summer Academy in India as a Patrick Stewart scholar. As part of the program Sonya completed training in areas such as team-building, public speaking and conflict mediation. These programs were designed to enable young people to think critically about human rights. After morning training sessions, Sonya volunteered at Mother Theresa's orphanage and with Free the Children projects in surrounding regions, participating in tasks such as building a primary school for former child laborers and distributing health and school supplies. Sonya's interest in her project started two years earlier when she attended a conference held by Free the Children, the parent organization of the Leaders Today Summer Academy. In order to raise funds for her trip, she asked her relatives to donate funds instead of giving her holiday gifts and she also contacted a number of local newspapers asking for support of her project in exchange for a story.
Human Rights Education Library: Teachers Title, death penalty Curricula for high school Teacher Edition. Author(s), Michigan State University Communication Technology Laboratory/death penalty http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=335&category_id=18&category_t
Extractions: Spring 2004 A letter from the President The History of South Africa: A Twice-Told Tale Alternative Pathways to College Centers of Education in Russia: The Case for CASEs ... The Back Page Also in this issue: Two Schools Collaborate and Students Succeed Recent Events A Footnote to History Low-bandwidth site Reporter Search Today Martin, who graduated from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee with high honors, works at a small law firm in that city. The 28-year-old husband and new father credits the turnaround in his life to Shalom High School, where his father took him in desperation when Martin was 16. Run by TransCenter for Youth Inc., a community-based organization in Milwaukee, Shalom is one of several dozen Community Based Organization (CBO) schools nationwide providing an increasingly important alternate pathway to college. Shalom has received funding from many different private and corporate foundations including the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation; the Helen Bader Foundation; the Greater Milwaukee Foundation; the Faye McBeath Foundation; Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund; the Northwestern Mutual Foundation; Ameritech; Johnson Controls Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation; the Stackner Family Foundation; the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund; and the Miller Brewing Company.
Tolerance.org Mix It Up Grant Reports A student at Unionville high school in Kennet Square, Pa., started a group on campus on student activism, poverty, LGBTQ acceptance, the death penalty, http://www.tolerance.org/teens/grantSummaries.jsp
Extractions: High School Grades Founder George Mason said, "No free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people, but by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." In this concluding lesson, you have the opportunity of relating some fundamental principles and ideas of our government to contemporary issues. The format of this lesson differs from the others. Critical Thinking Exercises, similar to those you have done throughout the book, present a series of quotations representing many great ideas and principles that have shaped our constitutional heritage. Some of these ideas contradict each other. American constitutional history has witnessed many conflicts between competing principles of equal merit, for example, the conflict between majority rule and minority rights, between sovereign power and fundamental rights, liberty and order, unity and diversity. You encounter once again some of these conflicts in the following exercises. In each case you are asked to apply the principles and ideas suggested in the quotations to a contemporary issue, to work through the issue on your own, or in small groups, and to reach your own conclusions.
Extractions: On November 21, 2004 I judged the arguments of 24 high school moot court competition participants from the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C. The competition was sponsored by WCL's Marshall Brennan Fellowship program and offered these 16 and 17 year-old public high school students the opportunity to argue the issue of whether the juvenile death penalty was constitutional under the Eighth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment." The case involved the death penalty for a 16 year old. The task was a formidable one for both the students and for me. The issue was sensitive and controversial and the case involved a defendant the age of the competing students. I could not have been more amazed at the breadth, maturity, and clarity with which these students outlined the issues and made their arguments - so similar to the issues and arguments made by attorneys who presented the Roper v. Simmons case before the Supreme Court a month earlier. Unlike the competition, though, the Simmons case involved a very real juvenile defendant and the very real possibility of a death penalty sentence.
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