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15 CRIME Abolish the Death abolition Aikens American Amici Curiae Appendix assault Bedau Bill of Rights brief California California Supreme Court capital punishment Carolina Code Ann committed condemned Constitution constitutionally convicted CRIM Criminal Laws cruel and unusual death penalty Death Row death sentence defendant degree murder deterrent Dodd Duffy ears Eaton Eighth Amendment enacted Feb enacted March executions federal Fourteenth Amendment Georgia Gottlieb hereafter cited homicide hour human imposed imprisonment inflicted infra ishment JAMES AIKENS July jurisdictions jury kidnapping for ransom killing legislative Legislature ment NATIONAL PRISONER STATISTICS Negro Penal Code person petitioner's pillory plurality opinion police Ramsey Clark rape reason REPORT robbery ROYAL COMMISSION SELLIN sentence of death Sess social society standards of decency Stat statute stripes Whipping studies supra Supreme Court thirty-nine stripes tion trial unable to pay UNITED NATIONS Unusual Punishment Clause Warden Weems WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN