Coker v. Georgia

In the 1977 case of Coker v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court case held that capital punishment, the death penalty, is grossly disproportionate to the crime of rape and is therefore prohibited by the Eighth Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment. ...

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