octavio_dingus@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoJustice Samuel Alito Insists Congress Has No Power To ‘Regulate’ Supreme Courtwww.huffpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11
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minus-squareAPassenger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoIt could still run up against tue 8th Amendment, more specifically the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Edit to add: being convicted of a capital crime does not guarantee a death sentence. Anything less than death still bumps into a Constitutional issue. Coming and going, there’s a likely Constituional challenge. An amendment would almost be easier.
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edward@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agodeath penalty isn’t cruel or unusual. scotus said so themselves. they even said a punishment could be cruel as long as it isn’t unusual.
It could still run up against tue 8th Amendment, more specifically the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Edit to add: being convicted of a capital crime does not guarantee a death sentence. Anything less than death still bumps into a Constitutional issue.
Coming and going, there’s a likely Constituional challenge. An amendment would almost be easier.
death penalty isn’t cruel or unusual. scotus said so themselves. they even said a punishment could be cruel as long as it isn’t unusual.