Add to ORKGWith the Supreme Court now dominated by a solidly conservative majority, recent, well-grounded hopes for prompt judicial abolition of the death penalty have vanished. Furthermore, existing Eighth Amendment doctrines that limit the death penalty could be in jeopardy. Historically, many advocates for abolition have criticized these doctrines. They claim that the Eighth Amendment prohibition on Cruel and Unusual Punishments requires “consistency” in capital selection and that current capital-sentencing doctrines do not satisfy—and sometimes conflict with— this requirement. However, these advocates failed to anticipate the need to defend these doctrines should judicial abolition become an impossibility and the rolling-back of current limitation...
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...
This spring, the Connecticut Supreme Court will take up a novel question, unprecedented in modern de...
With the Supreme Court now dominated by a solidly conservative majority, recent, well-grounded hopes...
This article explores Eighth Amendment theories that might justify the effort by the Supreme Court t...
This Article proposes a modest reform of Eighth Amendment law governing capital sentencing to spur m...
Over twenty years ago, the United States Supreme Court held that both mandatory capital sentencing s...
While scholars seem united on the sentiment that abolition is the ultimate resting place for capital...
The Eighth Amendment reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...
There is a compelling need to review the Supreme Court\u27s position regarding capital punishment, i...
This Article argues that the stalled dialogue over the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s administration of cap...
In 1972, the Supreme Court heard the case Furman v. Georgia. Through this case and its resulting dec...
This Article argues for the rescue and reform of Supreme Court doctrine regulating capital sentencin...
The Supreme Court takes two very different approaches to substantive sentencing law. Whereas its rev...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it incontestable that a death sentence is ...
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...
This spring, the Connecticut Supreme Court will take up a novel question, unprecedented in modern de...
With the Supreme Court now dominated by a solidly conservative majority, recent, well-grounded hopes...
This article explores Eighth Amendment theories that might justify the effort by the Supreme Court t...
This Article proposes a modest reform of Eighth Amendment law governing capital sentencing to spur m...
Over twenty years ago, the United States Supreme Court held that both mandatory capital sentencing s...
While scholars seem united on the sentiment that abolition is the ultimate resting place for capital...
The Eighth Amendment reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...
There is a compelling need to review the Supreme Court\u27s position regarding capital punishment, i...
This Article argues that the stalled dialogue over the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s administration of cap...
In 1972, the Supreme Court heard the case Furman v. Georgia. Through this case and its resulting dec...
This Article argues for the rescue and reform of Supreme Court doctrine regulating capital sentencin...
The Supreme Court takes two very different approaches to substantive sentencing law. Whereas its rev...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it incontestable that a death sentence is ...
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...
This spring, the Connecticut Supreme Court will take up a novel question, unprecedented in modern de...