Summary Impact of the Case "Roper v. Simmons was decided on March 1, "Christopher Simmons was a junior in hig 2005. The Court decided, "The Eighth school, when he told his friends he wants Amendment's prohibition against 'cruel and someone. On September 8, 1993 he brok unusual punishment' is violated when someone woman's home, tied her arms with duct t younger than eighteen at the time of his or her took her to a state park, secured the tape crime is executed. Capital punishment should be wire and threw her over a bridge and into reserved for the worst offenders; juveniles, (Mauro 2006). "Simmons then returned t because of their immaturity and lack of bragging about what he had done. Police judgement, cannot be placed in that category" arrested him and confessed to the murder (Mauro 2006). In a "5-4 opinion delivered by guilt was never in doubt, but his lawyers Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court ruled that argue against the death penalty, in refere standards of decency have evolved so that he could not be held responsible enough executing minors is 'cruel and unusual executed for his crime" (Mauro 2006). Sir punishment' prohibited by the Eighth appealed numerus times but was rejected Amendment" (Oyez n.d.). his last appeal in 2002. "In 2002, the Miss Supreme Court stayed Simmons's executi the U.S. Supreme Court decided Atkins v. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that e the mentally disabled violated the Eighth Amendment prohibitions on cruel and un punishment because a majority of Ameri found it cruel and unusual, the Missouri court decided to reconsider Simmons' ca (Oyez n.d.). The impact of this case had t "immediate consequence of saving the liv some seventy death row inmate's nation (Mauro 2006)