Pulley v. Harris, No. 82-1095 (U.S. Supreme Court) (465 U.S. 37; 104 S.Ct. 871) (January 23, 1984) (Justice White)
Here the Court rejected a claim that the Eighth Amendment requires a "proportionality review" of capital sentences, I.e., a comparison of the sentence imposed in the instant case with the penalties imposed in similar cases.
The respondent inmate in this case, Robert Harris, was convicted of a capital crime in ...
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