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Death Row Conditions: Progression Toward Constitutional Protections, Nancy Holland Jul 2015

Death Row Conditions: Progression Toward Constitutional Protections, Nancy Holland

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Beginning with recapitulation of the quest for the meaning and scope of the eighth amendment, this comment will review both the evolution of judicial scrutiny and the constitutional limitations of criminal incarceration and will also analyze the narrow body of case law affecting the quality of life on America's death rows.