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Chandler v. Crosby, No. 03-12017 (11th Cir.) (379 F.3d 1278) (August 6, 2004) (Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat)

The Court held that subjecting death row inmates to temperatures above 90 degrees during Florida’s summer months without any air-conditioning does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

This is one of those absurdly pointless and unduly harsh criminal justice decisions that is certain to evoke cries of shame from the ...

 

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