Assertion: helm's sentence | /r/HasProperty | disproportionate
Facets:
value: to the crime
type: OTHER
value: grossly
type: DEGREE
value: clearly
type: MANNER
value: for enmund's crime
type: CAUSE
value: constitutionally
type: MANNER
value: significantly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishments prohibits not only barbaric punishments, but also sentences that are disproportionate to the crime committed.
text: The final clause prohibits not only barbaric punishments, but also sentences that are disproportionate to the crime committed.
text: Thus the type of inquiry that a court should conduct to determine if a given sentence is constitutionally disproportionate is similar to the type of inquiry required by the Speedy Trial Clause.
text: We conclude that his sentence is significantly disproportionate to his crime, and is therefore prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
text: But clearly no sentence of imprisonment would be disproportionate for Enmund's crime.
text: The dissent concedes -- as it must -- that some sentences of imprisonment are so disproportionate that they are unconstitutional under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.
text: Thus, no single criterion can identify when a sentence is so grossly disproportionate that it violates the Eighth Amendment.
text: The Rummel Court recognized -- as does the dissent, see post at 463 U. S. 311, n. 3 -- that some sentences of imprisonment are so disproportionate that they violate the Eighth Amendment.
text: only barbaric punishments, but also sentences that are disproportionate to the crime committed.
text: "Court has, on occasion, stated that the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposition of a sentence that is grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime.
text: Rather, it held that the District Court clearly erred in even embarking on a determination whether the sentence was "disproportionate" to the crime.
text: Both Rummel and Hutto v. Davis leave open the possibility that, in extraordinary cases -- such as a life sentence for overtime parking -- it might be permissible for a court to decide whether the sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crime.