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• W227961729 abstract "With the recent execution of Elijah Page, South Dakota has once again become a state active in administering capital punishment. In 1972, the landmark decision of Furman v. Georgia held that all current state death penalty statutes were unconstitutional because they did not properly narrow the class of defendants who are eligible for the death penalty. In response, several states, including South Dakota, enacted revised death penalty statutes which contained aggravating circumstances to adhere to the mandate imposed by Furman. Currently, several of South Dakota's aggravating circumstances are vague and overbroad. As a result, South Dakota should amend or repeal these aggravating circumstances that do not follow the mandate left by Furman. I. INTRODUCTION On March 12, 2000, a teenager invited three friends over to his house to play video games. (1) Eventually, the three friends convinced him to leave his house. (2) After arriving at a new location, the fun quickly ended when one of the friends pulled out a pistol and ordered the teenager to get on the floor before knocking him unconscious with a kick to the head. (3) The three friends had decided to rob him of his valuable belongings. (4) While the victim was unconscious, his friends tied him to a chair with an electric cord. (5) When he woke up, he started to cry. (6) Two of the teenagers openly talked about their plan to kill the victim as they forced him to drink a mixture of hydrochloric acid, crushed pills, and beer. (7) As the victim complied with this request, he pled for his life and offered to give them everything he owned. (8) The friends refused this offer; instead they transported him to a remote location and forced him to remove most of his clothing in the freezing weather. (9) For no apparent reason, the friends repeatedly kicked the victim in the head. (10) As the victim screamed and pleaded for his life, his friends only kicked him harder. (11) Finally, the friends dragged the victim down to an icy creek where they laughed at the pain he endured as they used a knife to stab him in the head and neck. (12) At one point, one of the friends stood on the victim's neck while another friend tried to drown and stab him. (13) Yet, [d]espite the drowning attempts, stabbings, beatings and stoning, [the victim] was still alive. (14) After three hours of torture, the ordeal came to an abrupt end when two of the friends dropped several heavy rocks on the victim's head. (15) The victim's half-naked body lay in the icy creek for more than a month before it was discovered. (16) The victim's name was Chester Allan Poage. (17) These facts are from the South Dakota Supreme Court cases of State v. Page, (18) State v. Piper, (19) and State v. Hoadley. (20) Two of these defendants pled guilty and were sentenced to death by a judge; the third defendant pled not guilty and was given a life sentence by a jury. (21) On July 11, 2007, seven years after he murdered his friend, Elijah Page's death sentence was carried out; he was the first person executed in South Dakota in over sixty years. (22) The death penalty is a controversial topic that brings out some of the strongest emotions in people. (23) Regardless of one's personal views on the death penalty, under South Dakota law, an individual may be sentenced to death if the fact finder determines the presence of at least one of ten aggravating circumstances. (24) Since several of these aggravating circumstances are vague and overbroad, however, there is a higher number of defendants who are eligible for the death penalty. (25) This directly contradicts the United States Supreme Court's mandate in Furman v. Georgia, (26) where it held that aggravating circumstances must narrow the class of defendants who are eligible for the death penalty. (27) In order to meet this mandate, aggravating circumstances must be narrowly defined so that they are applicable only to a specific group of defendants whose conduct has warranted the death penalty. …" @default.
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