Whitten v. Georgia

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Whitten v. Georgia

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Eighth Amendment
…a century later, however, in Whitten v. Georgia (1872), the Supreme Court put limits on what was constitutionally permissible, holding that the “cruel and unusual” clause was “intended to prohibit the barbarities of quartering, hanging in chains, castration, etc.” Similarly, in In re Kemmler (1890), when the electric chair was…
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…a century later, however, in Whitten v. Georgia (1872), the Supreme Court put limits on what was constitutionally permissible, holding that the “cruel and unusual” clause was “intended to prohibit the barbarities of quartering, hanging in chains, castration, etc.” Similarly, in In re Kemmler (1890), when the electric chair was…
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