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Analysis And Investigation Of Solitary Confinement Reforms, Alison E. Gordon
Analysis And Investigation Of Solitary Confinement Reforms, Alison E. Gordon
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Law & Morality In Africa: Towards A Rational Public Policy Framework For Regulating Intimate Human Conduct In Ghana, Kwaku Agyeman-Budu
Law & Morality In Africa: Towards A Rational Public Policy Framework For Regulating Intimate Human Conduct In Ghana, Kwaku Agyeman-Budu
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Law and morality have always been uneasy bedfellows; for whose morality should the law protect and enforce? Is there a collective form or sense of morality that societies accept and agree to be bound by at any particular point in time? If so, how is this done? What does morality even mean? And should the law concern itself with enforcing religious and/or cultural moral codes in the modern secular State? These and other questions have been at the heart of philosophical and jurisprudential debates concerning the intersection between law and morality and its impact on public policy from time immemorial. …
Commuting Life Without Parole Sentences: The Need For Reason And Justice Over Politics, Jing Cao
Commuting Life Without Parole Sentences: The Need For Reason And Justice Over Politics, Jing Cao
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In the last thirty years, life without parole (LWOP) sentences have flourished in the United States. Of course the very reason for a LWOP sentencing scheme is to incarcerate the convicted defendant until death. But under the Pardon Clause of the Constitution, as well as under state laws granting the Governor the pardoning power, inmates serving LWOP sentences might be eligible for early release by commutations. On the one hand, the possibility of clemency could be regarded as an impermissible loophole that could be used on a case-by-case basis to undermine the certainty of a LWOP sentencing system. On the …