What Led Up To The Case Of Roper V. Simmons

In the days leading up to the crime Christopher Simmons would pressure his peers, Charlie Benjamin and John Tessmer, into assisting him in committing a crime. He wanted to burglarize a home and commit murder by tying up the victim and throwing them off of a bridge.. He told them that they could get away with it because they were all under eighteen meaning that no matter what they did they couldn’t get the death sentence. Christopher Simmons came up with the idea to break into the home of Shirley Crook, and without telling the others about it also had planned to murder her as well. The trio met up at Brian Moomey’s house, a local convicted felon who allowed teens to hang out on his property. However John Tessmer did not go with the other two when they left to carry out Simmons’

So when the decision to use it was made in the Roper v. Simmons case it was with good reason. They made the decision to use it because they saw no way to make it possible to reintegrate Simmons into regular society. So rather than waste time and money in a fruitless attempt to reform a person just for them to relapse as soon as they are given the opportunity for them to do so, they decided to circumvent this pointless process and end the fool’s errand before it even began, that is of course they elected to use the death sentence.

This article supports the idea that the use of life imprisonment is not an effective method of dealing with people who commit heinous crimes. It essentially states that the use of life imprisonment is akin to sweeping the mess under the carpet. In the idea that it doesn’t actually do anything, it simply makes it so that it is somebody else’s problem. The article also states use of the death penalty is also a unseen benefit to to inmate because it prevents them from having to essentially be forced to go crazy from being alone in a solitary