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Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a new case that is testing what “cruel and unusual” punishment, protected by the Eighth Amendment, could look like for everyone.
The Court held it is unconstitutional to execute someone convicted who has an intellectual disability in Atkins v. Virginia (2002). However, in recent years, conservative justices have appeared interested in
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