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FROM WOLVES, LAMBS (PART I): THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT CASE FOR GRADUAL ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
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- Author(s): Barry, Kevin
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Florida Law Review; Jan2014, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p313-387, 75p
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The article discusses the eighth amendment case for gradual abolition of the death penalty. Topics discussed include the history of the prospective-only death penalty repeal, New Mexico's legislature passed House Bill 285, which repealed the death penalty and death penalty trials that arose out of a brutal home invasion and triple murder in Cheshire, Connecticut and the legality of prospective-only repeal. It also discusses the decisions of Connecticut Supreme Court in this case.
