| 41. | There is good reason to hope that the court will find the Eighth Amendment argument more persuasive this time.
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| 42. | The issue is whether executing the mentally retarded is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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| 43. | The Oates case eventually became a topic of the U . S . Supreme Court s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.
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| 44. | In 2009 the Lisbon Treaty proposal was passed by the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
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| 45. | The Court then further addressed the procedural issues present in making a determination of insanity for Eighth Amendment concerns.
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| 46. | On July 16, 2014, Carney declared the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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| 47. | What the Eighth Amendment does is, at most, allow community standards to dictate what punishments are acceptable.
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| 48. | The constitutional question is whether executing a juvenile offender is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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| 49. | The U . S . Constitution's Eighth Amendment " prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.
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| 50. | Several days before his retirement, he said, " I have never changed my mind about the Eighth Amendment.
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