William W. Berry III

University of Mississippi School of Law

Montague Professor of Law

481 Chucky Mullins Drive

P.O. Box 1848

University, MS 38677

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (52)

1.

Extraordinary and Compelling: A Re-Examination of the Justifications for Compassionate Release

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 28 May 2010
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 1,334 (25,321)

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sentencing, compassionate release, extraordinary, bureau of prisons, punishment, parole, sentencing commission

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More Different than Life, Less Different than Death

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 6, 2010
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 May 2010 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 1,020 (37,253)
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Graham, Eighth Amendment, life without parole, death penalty, death is different

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Ending Death by Dangerousness

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 889, 2010
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 737 (58,259)

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Incapacitation, Future Dangerousness, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Eighth Amendment

4.

Implementing Just Mercy

94 Texas Law Review 331 (2015)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 May 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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justice, mercy, Eighth Amendment, LWOP, death penalty, parole

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American Procedural Exceptionalism: A Deterrent or Catalyst for Death Penalty Abolition?

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2010
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 639 (70,133)
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The Mandate of Miller

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 634 (70,835)

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Miller v. Alabama, LWOP, juveniles, mandatory, death, evolving standards, parole, Graham, Woodson, Lockett

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Repudiating Death

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 101, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2011
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 633 (70,989)

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Powell, Blackmun, Stevens, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Eighth Amendment, Judicial Restraint, Pandora's Box

8.

Promulgating Proportionality

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 69, 2011
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Eighth Amendment, Proportionality, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Walton

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Book Review - The European Prescription for Ending the Death Penalty

2011 Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, p. 1103, 2011
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Discretion Without Guidance: The Need to Give Meaning to 3553 after Booker and its Progeny

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Sentencing, Commission, Booker, Rita, Kimbrough, Gall, discretion

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Life-with-Hope Sentencing: The Argument for Replacing Life-Without-Parole Sentences with Presumptive Life Sentences

76 Ohio State Law Journal 1051 (2015)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 551 (84,416)
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Practicing Proportionality

Florida Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 687, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Employee-Athletes, Antitrust, and the Future of College Sports

28 Stanford Law & Policy Review 245 (2017).
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Antitrust, O'Bannon, Jenkins, NCAA, athletes, employees, student-athlete, football, basketball, sports

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Following the Yellow Brick Road of Evolving Standards of Decency: The Ironic Consequences of 'Death-is-Different' Jurisprudence

Pace Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 454 (106,790)

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Death Penalty, Supreme Court, Atkins, Roper, evolving standards

15.

Amending Amateurism

68 Alabama Law Review 551 (2016).
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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NCAA, amateurism, college, sports, student-athlete, antitrust, O'Bannon, Northwestern

16.

Procedural Proportionality

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Feb 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 333 (151,509)

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Eighth Amendment, Miller, Graham, death penalty, LWOP, procedural due process, proportionality

17.

Educating Athletes

81 Tennessee Law Review 795 (2014).
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 303 (167,464)

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NCAA, student-athlete, amateurism, intercollegiate athletics, football, basketball, college sports

18.

Criminal Constitutional Avoidance

104 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 105 (2014).
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 273 (186,532)

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Skilling, avoidance, canon, vagueness, ambiguity, statutory interpretation, white collar, fraud, honest services

19.

Voices on Innocence

68 Florida Law Review 1569 (2016)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Belmont University School of Law, University of San Francisco, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of Toledo College of Law and University of Mississippi School of Law
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innocence, plea bargain, factual innocence, exoneration, wrongful conviction, evidence, experts, prosecutors, accountability, punishment, restorative justice

20.

Eighth Amendment Differentness

78 Missouri Law Review 1053 (2013) (Symposium)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 May 2013 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 250 (203,665)

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Miller, Graham, Eighth Amendment, Different, Juvenile, JLWOP, LWOP, parole, sentencing

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Separating Retribution from Proportionality: A Response to Stinneford

Virginia Law Review In Brief, Vol. 97, No. 61, 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 240 (211,854)

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Eighth Amendment Presumptions: A Constitutional Framework for Curbing Mass Incarceration

89 Southern California Law Review 67 (2015)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 237 (214,441)
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Eighth Amendment, presumptions, Miller, Graham, Death Penalty, LWOP, mandatory sentences, Sentencing, Parole

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Sixth Amendment Sentencing after Hurst

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 66, 2018 Forthcoming, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Carissa Byrne Hessick and William W. Berry III
University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 235 (216,265)

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jury trial, sentencing, Sixth Amendment, Apprendi, Supreme Court

24.

Cruel & Unusual Non-Capital Punishments

American Criminal Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Dec 2020
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 234 (217,164)

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The Evolving Standards, As Applied

74 Fla. L. Rev. 775 (2022)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 220 (230,393)

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Eighth Amendment, As-Applied, Evolving Standards of Decency, JLWOP, LWOP, death penalty, Jones v. Mississippi, Miller v. Alabama, Irreparably Corrupt, punishment, sentencing

26.

Individualized Sentencing

76 Washington and Lee Law Review 13 (2019)
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 22 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Cruel Techniques, Unusual Secrets

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 78, No. 2, 2017, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 350
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2019
William W. Berry III and Meghan J. Ryan
University of Mississippi School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
Downloads 176 (281,810)

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Glossip, Death Penalty, Execution Methods, Eighth Amendment, Dignity, Torture, Capital Punishment, Lethal Injection

28.

Normative Retroactivity

19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 485 (2016).
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 172 (287,495)

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retroactivity, teague v. lane, montgomery, welch, procedure, substance, habeas, new constitutional rule, collateral appeal

29.

Ending the Death Lottery

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 166 (296,202)

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death penalty, eighth amendment, proportionality review, Pulley, Ohio, capital punishment, disproportionate

30.

Cruel State Punishments

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 22 Apr 2019
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 165 (297,799)

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Evolved Standards, Evolving Justices?

96 Washington University Law Review 105 (2018).
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2018
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 164 (299,291)

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Cruel and Unusual, Eighth Amendment, Evolving Standards, Countermajoritarian Difficulty, JLWOP, Death Penalty

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Remembering Furman's Comparative Proportionality: A Response to Smith and Staihar

101 Iowa Law Review Online 65 (2016)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2016
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 163 (300,860)

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Mandatory Sentences as Strict Liability

Washington and Lee Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 30 May 2023
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 157 (310,479)

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Strict Liability, Mandatory Sentences, Culpability, Intent, Discretion, Individualized Sentencing, Eighth Amendment, Woodson, Miller, Morissette

34.

Unusual Deference

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 153 (317,404)

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Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual, deference, McCleskey, Pulley, Harmelin, mass incarceration, death penalty, LWOP

35.

Unusual State Capital Punishments

Florida Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 May 2019
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 150 (322,605)

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Eighth Amendment Values

The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment (Cambridge U. Press), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022
William W. Berry III and Meghan J. Ryan
University of Mississippi School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
Downloads 148 (326,068)

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Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual, dignity, individualized sentencing, proportionality, humanness, non-arbitrariness, differentness

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Right About Wrongs? A Review of Fried & Fried's Because It Is Wrong and the Implications of Their Arguments on the Use of Capital Punishment

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 5, July 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 136 (348,623)

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war on terror, torture, death penalty, privacy, surveillance, Bush

38.

Superstars, Superteams, and the Future of Player Movement

13 HARV. J. SPORTS & ENT. L. 199 (2022)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Dec 2022
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 134 (352,635)

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Free Agency, NBA, NFL, Sports, Contracts, Lebron James, Aaron Rodgers, Player Movement, Holdouts

39.

The Problem with Capital Pleas

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Dec 2022
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 133 (354,621)

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United States V. Jackson, Brady, Plea Bargains, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, LWOP

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Unconstitutional Punishment Categories

84 Ohio State Law Journal 1 (2023)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Evolving Standards of Decency, Eighth Amendment, Death Penalty, JLWOP, Jones v. Mississippi, categorical exceptions, juveniles

41.

Eighth Amendment Presumptive Penumbras

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Apr 2020
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 118 (387,685)

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penumbra, Eighth Amendment, juvenile, LWOP, death penalty, parole, presumption, bright line rule, JLWOP

42.

Playoff Profits for Academic Programs

5 Mississippi Sports Law Review 1 (2016)(Symposium).
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 117 (390,028)

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NCAA, sports, student-athlete, amateurism, pay for play, intercollegiate athletics

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The Retroactivity Roadmap

10 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 179 (2016) (Symposium)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 113 (400,032)

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LWOP, retroactivity, Miller, Montgomery, juveniles, parole, Eighth Amendment

44.

Individualized Executions

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2019
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 May 2019
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 108 (413,204)

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execution, lethal injection, death penalty, capital punishment, Woodson, Lockett, individualized sentencing

45.

Capital Felony Merger

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 111, No. 3, 2021
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Sep 2021
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 102 (430,310)

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felony murder, death penalty, capital punishment, merger doctrine, Eighth Amendment, evolving standards of decency, Enmund v. Florida, Tison v. Arizona

46.

Writing (and Re-Writing) Federal Criminal Law -- In the Classroom

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 90 (466,987)

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teaching, pedagogy, white collar, federal criminal law, legal writing

47.

Foreword

Mississippi Sports Law Review, Vol. 1, Issue 2, p. 245, 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Sports

48.

Magnifying Miranda

50 Texas Tech L. Rev. 97 (2017) (symposium)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 71 (536,722)

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Miranda, policing, sentencing, prophylactic rules, under enforced rights

49.

The Crime of Amateurism

Santa Clara Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Dec 2020
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 64 (567,052)

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Enhancing ‘Education’

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 61 (580,554)

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NCAA, college sports, presidents, education, student-athlete

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The Transfer Rules Litmus Test

17 Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 151 (2018)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Dec 2020
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Judicial Hesitancy and Majoritarianism

The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment (Cambridge U. Press), M. Ryan & W. Berry, eds). (2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Mar 2023
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Eighth Amendment, evolving standards, judicial hesitancy, deference, cruel and unusual, death penalty, JLWOP, proportionality

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 27
1.

Book Review of Forgotten Men

Rutgers Criminal Books and Criminal Justice Reviews
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi School of Law
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LWOP, parole, prison, book review