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offense. However, the Court provided scant guidance on how lower courts should apply this standard. In the sentencing context, the Court has stressed
entrenches and expands the reach of the carceral state, making it more difficult to excise in the future. Sentencing reforms that single out certain
in Prison Law, 24 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 245, 249-52 (2012); Margo Schlanger, Prisoners’ Rights Lawyers’ Strategies for Preserving the Role of the Courts
emphasized several unique aspects of death penalty jurisprudence.6 In particular, the Court highlighted the importance of individualized sentencing in
his attack on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Scalia exerted searching judicial review to vindicate core structural rights of criminal defendants
held that dramatic racial-sentencing disparities do not, without more, make a death sentence unconstitutional, under either the Eighth Amendment’s
emphasized several unique aspects of death penalty jurisprudence.In particular, the Court highlighted the importance of individualized sentencing in
system and respond to potential structural flaws. The petitioner in Woodward challenged the constitutionality of Alabama’s capital-sentencing scheme
the constitutionality of Alabama’s capital-sentencing scheme. Alabama is one of only a handful of states in which judges may impose a death sentence
acknowledges the connection in the book’s first sentence, which invokes the 2000 election. Rehnquist, , at 3. The book’s last sentences conclude that