"Proportionality" is an unsettled area of Eighth Amendment law because:
A) lethal injection is considered "cruel and unusual punishment."
B) not all states allow for the use of the death penalty.
C) not all states use the same method for the death penalty.
D) only men, and not women, have been sentenced to the death penalty.
E) some punishments may be so disproportionate to the crime that they constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."
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