Add to ORKGIn 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided that capital punishment does not violate the Eighth Amendment\u27s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. This note raises the question whether extended incarceration on death row invokes the protections of the Eighth Amendment. This note examines four aspects of this issue. First, it traces the facts and procedural history of McKenzie. Second, the history of cruel and unusual punishment jurisprudence is discussed. Third, it details and analyzes the majority and dissenting opinions. Finally, it demonstrates that McKenzie is a poorly reasoned opinion
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional to execute death row inmates who are too ins...
This Article describes the anomaly of executions in the context of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Eighth A...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided that capital punishment does not violate the Eighth...
There is a great struggle in the United States between proponents of the death penalty and death pen...
Four years after Furmanv. Georgia, the Supreme Court has resolved the major question left unanswered...
Does death row incarceration for upwards of thirty years or more impermissibly impose the suffering ...
The present research deals with the issue of death penalty in the US which creates tension whether i...
Part I of this comment provides a brief review of Furmanandthe circumstances leading to the decision...
The United States Supreme Court recently handed down Gregg v. Georgia, a decision that attempted to ...
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusua...
“In Bell v. Ohio and Lockett v. Ohio the United States Supreme Court found the sentencing provisions...
Beginning with recapitulation of the quest for the meaning and scope of the eighth amendment, this c...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Alabama death penalty statute which prohibi...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional to execute death row inmates who are too ins...
This Article describes the anomaly of executions in the context of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Eighth A...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided that capital punishment does not violate the Eighth...
There is a great struggle in the United States between proponents of the death penalty and death pen...
Four years after Furmanv. Georgia, the Supreme Court has resolved the major question left unanswered...
Does death row incarceration for upwards of thirty years or more impermissibly impose the suffering ...
The present research deals with the issue of death penalty in the US which creates tension whether i...
Part I of this comment provides a brief review of Furmanandthe circumstances leading to the decision...
The United States Supreme Court recently handed down Gregg v. Georgia, a decision that attempted to ...
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusua...
“In Bell v. Ohio and Lockett v. Ohio the United States Supreme Court found the sentencing provisions...
Beginning with recapitulation of the quest for the meaning and scope of the eighth amendment, this c...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Alabama death penalty statute which prohibi...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional to execute death row inmates who are too ins...
This Article describes the anomaly of executions in the context of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Eighth A...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...