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8 Aug 2011, 11:47 pm by Jeff Gamso
Georgia428 U.S. 153, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), we explained that unless a criminal sanction serves a legitimate penological function, it constitutes "gratuitous infliction of suffering" in violation of the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 10:07 pm
Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) .................... ................................................. 27, 31, 33, 36, 42 Harbison, v. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 11:50 pm
Georgia,428 U.S. 153, 173,49 L.Ed. 2d 859, 96 S, Ct. 2909 (1976) or "involve[s] torture or alingering death. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 4:16 am
Georgia, 428 U.S.153) Thus the states as well as Congress have had for some years constitutionally valid statutory models for death-penalty laws, and more than three dozen state legislatures have enacted death penalty statutes patterned after those the Court upheld in Gregg. [read post]