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Coker v. Georgia
proportion to the severity of the crime. Pp. 591-592. (b) That death is a disproportionate penalty for rape ... taking of life, and since the jury did not deem the robbery itself deserving of the death penalty, even ... JUSTICE BRENNAN concluded that the death penalty is, in all circumstances, cruel and unusual punishment ...
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Coker v. Georgia
proportion to the severity of the crime. Pp. 591-592. (b) That death is a disproportionate penalty for rape ... taking of life, and since the jury did not deem the robbery itself deserving of the death penalty, even ... JUSTICE BRENNAN concluded that the death penalty is, in all circumstances, cruel and unusual punishment ...
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Coker v. Georgia
proportion to the severity of the crime. Pp. 591-592. (b) That death is a disproportionate penalty for rape ... taking of life, and since the jury did not deem the robbery itself deserving of the death penalty, even ... JUSTICE BRENNAN concluded that the death penalty is, in all circumstances, cruel and unusual punishment ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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GLOSSIP v. GROSS
unusual punishments. Anti-death-penalty advocates then pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent ... of severe pain. I A The death penalty was an accepted punishment at the time of the adoption of the ... Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies 4 (H. Bedau ed. 1997). Hanging remained the standard ...
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United States v. Jackson
death penalty is not imposed. The District Court dismissed the count of an indictment charging appellees ... Government appealed directly to this Court. Held: The death penalty clause imposes an impermissible burden ... imprisonment for any term of years or for life, if the death penalty is not imposed. This statute thus creates ...