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7 Nov 2011, 9:36 am by Lyle Denniston
Simmons, ending the death penalty for youths who commit murder as minors, and the Court’s 2010 decision in Graham v. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 8:10 am by Kent Scheidegger
Simmons, expressly limited to capital punishment, and Graham v. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 7:10 pm
Rick Wilson, drafter of the EU amicus brief in Roper v. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 11:41 am by Andrea Bottorff
However, in 2006 his sentence was lessened to life imprisonment without parole, after the US Supreme Court [official website] ruled in Roper v. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 3:30 pm by David Tanenhaus
In its landmark 2005 decision in Roper v. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 7:50 am by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract: Professor Mark Tushnet contends that Roper v. [read post]
27 May 2011, 2:39 pm by Michael M. O'Hear
Louisiana (banning the death penalty for sexual assault of a child), and Roper v. [read post]
27 May 2011, 11:33 am by Michael O'Hear
Louisiana (banning the death penalty for sexual assault of a child), and Roper v. [read post]
25 May 2011, 2:30 am
Referring to the passage quoted above, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:[O]ur judge-empowering 'evolving standards of decency' jurisprudence (with which, by the way, I heartily disagree), does not prescribe (or at least has not until today prescribed) rules for the 'decent' running of schools, prisons, and other government institutions. ...Regarding this disagreement, Scalia cited his 2005 dissent in Roper v. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 9:24 pm by Lawrence Solum
Unlike previous Eighth Amendment decisions, such as Roper v. [read post]