Which of the below statements in NOT correct regarding the Eighth Amendment?
A) The death penalty has been upheld by the Supreme Court as a legally permissible punishment.
B) Some states have abolished the death penalty.
C) A state may impose the death penalty for the violent crime of rape even if the victim suffers only minor injuries.
D) All the above statements are correct.
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Q18: The first state to use the electric
Q19: Robinson v. California (1962) discussed
A) the right
Q20: In Trop v. Dulles (1958), a native-born
Q21: Under what circumstances has the Supreme Court
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