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Use with articles identified.

The statements are answers to questions (modeled after the TM show Jeopardy jeopardy, in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment. At common law a defendant could be exposed to jeopardy for the same offense only once; exposing a person twice is known as

double jeopardy.
!). Students must answer in the form of questions.

Divide the class into teams.

Read the statements.

Call on the first team with a hand raised.

Correct answer = 10 points

Wrong answer = -10 points (And another team may respond for the same chance to gain or Lose 10 points.)

STATEMENTS TO READ

THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE--

1. Inmates await execution on this "row."

2. Most widely used execution technique.

3. In 1972, it suspended capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History


Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi.
.

4. 38 states and the blank government use capital punishment.

5. Three-letter chemical test used by police.

CORRECT RESPONSE

What is death row?

What is lethal injection This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. ?

What is the Supreme Court?

What is federal?

What is DNA DNA: see nucleic acid.
DNA
 or deoxyribonucleic acid

One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes.
?

1974: THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT--

6. Ford represented this state in Congress.

7. Ford starred in this college sport.

8. Watergate started with this kind of crime.

9. Amendment used when Ford became Vice President.

10. Democrat who defeated Ford in 1976.

CORRECT RESPONSE

What is Michigan?

What is football?

What is a burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. ?

What is the 26th?

Who is Jimmy Carter?
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Date:Feb 5, 2007
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