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While rejecting torture as the Eighth Amendment commands, may we consciously, retributively calibrate pain to respond as deserved?
Killing them softly: meditations on a painful punishment of death by Blecker, Robert / Fordham Urban Law Journal
Whether recognition of the political power under the Good Behavior Clause advocated by Prakash and Smith would, in fact, be employed retributively is, of course, largely beside the point.
Response: good behavior, judicial independence, and the foundations ... by Redish, Martin H. / Yale Law Journal
This ancient measure feels right; it is poetically, retributively, and emotionally just.
The death penalty as delineated by the Old Testament: from Adam and ... by Blecker, Robert / USA Today (Magazine)
 
 
 
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