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2 Jan 2012, 7:59 pm by Dwight Sullivan
Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), the Supreme Court held that death isn’t a constitutionally permissible punishment for rape of a child. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 12:39 pm
”’” (Id. at p. 382, quoting Graham, supra, 560 U.S. at p. 69 and Kennedy v. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 7:56 pm by Schachtman
Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), for instance, the Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibited a state from imposing the death penalty to punish a child rapist because of the sanction’s disproportionality[2]. [read post]
9 Jul 2021, 12:31 pm by Alicia Maule
Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407, 446–47 (2008) (“The rule of evolving standards of decency with specific marks on the way to full progress and mature judgment means that resort to the penalty must be reserved for the worst of crimes and limited in its instances of application. [read post]