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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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Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber
a shock which was intended to cause his death, but which failed to do so, presumably because of some ... murder, and, in September, 1945, sentenced to be electrocuted for the crime. Upon a proper death warrant, ... the switch, but, presumably because of some mechanical difficulty, death did not result. He was ...