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Enmund Vs. Florida
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- US Supreme Court
- Jul 02, 1982
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U.S. 782 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Enmund v. FloridaSearch
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U.S. 782 (1982) Enmund v. FloridaSearch
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Id. at 1369, quoting Adams v. StateSearch
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Ibid., citing Armstrong v. StateSearch
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Weems v. UnitedSearch
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States, 217 U. S. 349 , 217 U. S. 371 (1910), quoting O'Neil v. VermontSearch
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Field, J., dissenting). This Court most recently held a punishment excessive in relation to the crime charged in Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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S. 593 . More importantly, in reenacting death penalty laws in order to satisfy the criteria established in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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supra, at 433 U. S. 596 , quoting Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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By contrast, there were 72 executions for rape in this country between 1955 and this Court's decision in Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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Woodson v. NorthSearch
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the culpability of those who killed the Kerseys. This was impermissible under the Eighth Amendment. In Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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and hence an unconstitutional punishment. Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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Fisher v. UnitedSearch
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has found criminal penalties to be unconstitutionally excessive in the absence of intentional wrongdoing. In Robinson v. CaliforniaSearch
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was struck down under the Eighth Amendment. Similarly, in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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U.S. at 217 U. S. 363 . The Court employed a similar approach in Godfrey v. GeorgiaSearch
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is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. See Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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So.2d at 1369 (quoting Adams v. StateSearch
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Ibid. (quoting Pope v. StateSearch
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petitioner's crime. Consequently, these facts supported only one aggravating circumstance. Second, citing Armstrong v. StateSearch
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In Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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to his crimes. A The Eighth Amendment concept of proportionality was first fully expressed in Weems v. UnitedSearch
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was cruel and unusual. Id. at 217 U. S. 381 . Not until two-thirds of a century later, in Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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the meaning of the requirement of proportionality contained within the Eighth Amendment. Trop v. DullesSearch
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only 3 of the 35 States that immediately reinstituted the death penalty following the Court's judgment in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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U.S. at 433 U. S. 596 . See Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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that both legislatures and juries firmly rejected the penalty of death for the crime of rape. See Woodson v. NorthSearch
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these latter factors underlying the concept of proportionality are reflected in this Court's conclusion in Lockett v. OhioSearch
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statutes allowing juries the discretion to decide whether to impose or to recommend the death penalty. See Woodson v. NorthSearch
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penalty for accomplice felony murder. Moreover, as JUSTICE BLACKMUN pointed out in his concurring opinion in Lockett v. OhioSearch
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felony murder, Coker v. GeorgiaSearch
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opinion of Stewart, POWELL, and STEVENS, JJ.). In striking down the mandatory capital punishment statute in Woodson v. NorthSearch
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In Lockett v. OhioSearch
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Green v. GeorgiaSearch
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resistance, and not that the petitioner had killed them in an effort to eliminate them as witnesses. See Armstrong v. StateSearch
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in imposing sentence. Woodson v. NorthSearch
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that they were committed for pecuniary gain, and that they were especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel. See Armstrong v. StateSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Enmund v. FloridaSearch
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Adams v. StateSearch
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Armstrong v. StateSearch
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Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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the Eighth Amendment. In Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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