The Issue:  Is the death penalty consistent with the Eighth Amendment's
   guide analysis in future death penalty cases.  The Court in Trop said
   then-existing death penalty laws based on the inherent arbitrariness of
   in death penalty states.  In the death penalty phase of trials, jurors
   v Virginia that  the death penalty was unconstitutional when applied to
   in 2005 in Roper v Simmons to find that the death penalty could not be
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   One of the most eloquent attacks on the death penalty ever delivered in
    Clarence Darrow attacks the death penalty during the Leopold and Loeb
   on capital punishment in the Eighth Amendment?
   could have chosen language explicitly authorizing the death penalty or
   3.  Even if the death penalty is constiutional, does it follow that all
   existing forms of the death penalty are constitutional.  Is Florida's
   4.  Does the evidence suggest that the death penalty deters murder any
   doesn't, does that suggest the death penalty is an excessive
   infliction of the death penalty under Atkins v Virginia?