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Furman Vs. Georgia
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- Jun 29, 1972
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U.S. 238 (1972) U.S. Supreme Court Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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U.S. 238 (1972) Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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That the requirements of due process ban cruel and unusual punishment is now settled. Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. ResweberSearch
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Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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and unusual punishments forbids the judicial imposition of them as well as their imposition by the legislature. Weems v. UnitedSearch
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Weems v. UnitedSearch
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States, supra, at 217 U. S. 378 . A like statement was made in Trop v. DullesSearch
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Judge Tuttle, indeed, made abundantly clear in Novak v. BetoSearch
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U. S. 413 . The Court in McGautha v. CaliforniaSearch
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Page 408 U. S. 249 Mr. Justice Field, dissenting in O'Neil v. VermontSearch
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its face may be applied in such a way as to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Yick Wo v. HopkinsSearch
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Together with No. 69-5030, Jackson v. GeorgiaSearch
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on certiorari to the same court, and No. 69-5031, Branch v. TexasSearch
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As the Court noted in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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U. S. 373 . It was almost 80 years before this Court had occasion to refer to the Clause. See Pervear v. TheSearch
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Commonwealth, 5 Wall. 475, 72 U. S. 479 -480 (1867). These early cases, as the Court pointed out in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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In Wilkerson v. UtahSearch
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The Court then observed, commenting upon the passage just quoted from Wilkerson v. UtahSearch
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Clause prevailed, the Clause would have been effectively read out of the Bill of Rights. As the Court noted in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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contrary to the implications in Wilkerson v. UtahSearch
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Board of Education v. BarnetteSearch
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That knowledge, of course, is but the beginning of the inquiry. In Trop v. DullesSearch
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in the judgment. The infliction of an extremely severe punishment will often entail physical suffering. See Weems v. UnitedSearch
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at 356 U. S. 101 , severe mental pain may be inherent in the infliction of a particular punishment. See Weems v. UnitedSearch
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That, indeed, was one of the conclusions underlying the holding of the plurality in Trop v. DullesSearch
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of cadena temporal, see nn. 11-12, supra, was an obvious basis for the Court's decision in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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human dignity. The infliction of an extremely severe punishment, then, like the one before the Court in Weems v. UniteSearch
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being. That attitude may be apparent apart from the severity of the punishment itself. In Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. ResweberSearch
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or for being addicted to narcotics. Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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As Wilkerson v. UtahSearch
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in such cases, Trop v. DullesSearch
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Page 408 U. S. 278 Thus, for example, Weems v. UnitedSearch
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States, 217 U.S. at 217 U. S. 380 , and Trop v. DullesSearch
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may be considered is the existence of the punishment in jurisdictions other than those before the Court. Wilkerson v. UtahSearch
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In Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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less severe punishment adequate to achieve the purposes for which the punishment is inflicted, cf. Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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and therefore excessive. This principle first appeared in our cases in Mr. Justice Field's dissent in O'Neil v. VermontSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Francis v. ResweberSearch
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Novak v. BetoSearch
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the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Yick Wo v. HopkinsSearch
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Jackson v. GeorgiaSearch
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Branch v. TexasSearch
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the Clause. See Pervear v. TheSearch
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In Trop v. DullesSearch
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See Weems v. UnitedSearch
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Weems v. UniteSearch
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