The document summarizes several non-First Amendment rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, including the right to bear arms (2nd Amendment), privacy rights (4th Amendment), and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment). It also provides data on the death penalty in the U.S. in 2008, noting that 37 executions were carried out mostly by lethal injection, the majority of those executed were men, and crimes eligible for the death penalty vary by state and federal laws.

1. Non-First
Amendment Rights
SHS Social Studies

2. Amendment II
 Right to bear arms (possess
and carry firearms)
 Original intent: citizen militia;
Kings took weapons from
political opponents
 District of Columbia v. Heller
(2008)—individual right
 McDonald v. Chicago (2010)—
applied to states (handgun ban)

3. Amendment IV (privacy)
 III: Quartering troops
 Searches &
seizures—must be
reasonable
 Probable cause
 Search warrant
 Signed by judge
 Exclusionary rule

4. Right to Privacy
 Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
 Roe v. Wade (1973)
 Ohio v. Akron Center (1990): parental
consent under 18
 Lawrence v. Texas (2003): Adults have a
right to consensual sexual relations with
one another

5. Is A Warrant Needed?
 Belief that someone committed a felony?
 Yes
 Crime committed in presence of police?
 No
 Garbage cans
 Yes (unless garbage has been taken out)
 Drug test
 No
 Vehicle
 No (even things in the vehicle)
 Wiretap
 Yes

6. More Amendments…
 Amendment V: self-
incrimination (Miranda v.
Arizona)
 Amendment V: double
jeopardy (both state &
federal laws violated?)
 Amendment VI: assistance
of counsel (Gideon v.
Wainwright) 5 years

7. Amendment VIII
 Against cruel & unusual punishment
 Punishment must fit the crime
 Death penalty?
 Furman v. Georgia (1972): unconstitutional
 Gregg v. Georgia (1976): constitutional if death
penalty if certain procedures are followed—
separate deliberations; specific crimes; appeals)

8. Let’s examine the
data

9. Number of Executions
 In 2008, 37 persons
in nine states were
executed -- 18 in
Texas
 Of persons executed
in 2008:
 20 were white
 17 were black

10. Number of Executions
 All 37 inmates executed in 2008 were
men
 54 women were under death sentence
 Lethal injection was used in 36 executions
in 2008; 1 execution was by electrocution.
 Thirty-seven States and the Federal
government in 2006 had capital statutes.

11. More on Executions

12. Inmate Abstract
 Inmates under sentence of death in 2007:
 nearly 2 in 3 had a prior felony conviction
 1 in 12 had a prior homicide conviction.
 Average age at time of arrest was 29
 Nearly 1 in 9 inmates were age 19 or
younger at the time of arrest
 Youngest inmate under sentence of death
was 19; the oldest was 92.

13. State methods (most use Lethal
Injection)

14. Crimes With Capital Punishment
State Crimes
Federal Crimes