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The Death Penalty blog
Cruel and Unusual Meant Something in 1791 Before Evolving Standards Arrived The Eighth Amendment copied the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and set a fixed standard, until the Court swapped it for evolving standards of decency. The Death Penalty in the Supreme Court, a Timeline From Furman to Bucklew A dated walk through the Supreme Court's capital punishment cases from 1972 to 2020, with what each decision settled and what it left open. Capital Punishment Divides the Right, and Both Camps Deserve a Real Hearing Conservatives split on the death penalty between retributive justice and distrust of fallible government, and each side has a serious case.