SLRI Presents: State Constitutions & The Limits Of Criminal Punishments, a symposium at Rutgers Law School | October 24, 2024
Bans use of electric chair
Categories: Sentencing
FL "cruel or unusual" clause is broader than 8th Amendment
Bans mandatory LWOP for 18 year olds
Youth LWOP is presumed disproprotionate
Bans mandatory LWOP for drug possession
Prospective sentencing reform is relevant to excessive sentence claims
Miller v. Alabama requires on-the-record findings and applies to de facto LWOP
Prospective death penalty abolition renders existing death sentences unconstitutional
Relying on "superpredator" myth in sentencing violates due process
Life in prison for indecent exposure is unconstitutionally excessive