Stanford v. Kentucky, No. 87-5765 (U.S. Supreme Court) (492 U.S. 361; 109 S.Ct. 2969) (June 26, 1989) (Justice Scalia)
In this consolidated case, a Kentucky juvenile defendant and a Missouri juvenile defendant challenged the death penalty for their murder convictions, in separate proceedings, on the grounds that such a penalty violated the Eighth Amendment's proscription against cruel and unusual punishment.
A divided court Court held that the Eighth Amendment's ...
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