Coker v. Georgia
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coker-v-georgia-168-7351115
title:
Coker v. Georgia
text:
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977), held that the death penalty for rape of an adult was grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment, and therefore unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The "evolving standards of decency" test has since been applied in other cases including Atkins v. Virginia Stanford v. Kentucky, and Roper v. Simmons. Because only a few states continued to have child rape statutes that authorized the death penalty, the Court applied the
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1977 U.S. Supreme Court case prohibiting the use of capital punishment for adult rape
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coker_v._Georgia
date created:
2005-12-13T15:42:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T22:56:22Z
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