Death Penalties: a Review of Raoul Berger, Death Penalties [Book Review]

Duke Law Journal 1984:624-29 (1984)
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This is a critical review of Death Penalties by constitutional scholar Raoul Berger. It rebuts Berger's argument that the Eighth Amendment "no cruel and unusual punishments" clause validates capital punishment.

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William A. Edmundson
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