Question: 1. What is meant by blended sentencing? Give its variations.
2. Give some rights now afforded to crime victims. In your opinion, is it a good idea to allow victims to address the court and the defendant during the sentencing hearing?
3. Within a span of just four years during the 1970s, the Court, in the Furman and Gregg decisions, changed its mind on the constitutionality of the death penalty. What explains these opposing decisions on such an important national issue within so short a time?