International Custom and Treaties in Eighth Amendment Analysis after Stanford: A Death Knell for Thompson

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Saturday, July 1, 1989
Author: 
Scott N. Carlson
Volume: 
5
Issue: 
7
Abstract: 
Last year in Thompson v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court struck down an Oklahoma statute under which the state sought the death penalty for juvenile offenders.