Assertion: death penalty | /r/HasProperty | unconstitutional
Facets:
value: in michigan
type: LOCATION
value: as the basis of their decision
type: OTHER
value: for the crime of rape
type: OTHER
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in 1983 that the military death penalty was unconstitutional, and after new standards intended to rectify the Armed Forces Court of Appeals' objections, the military death penalty was reinstated by an executive order of President Ronald Reagan the following year.
text: Oklahoma statute books still provide the death penalty for first-degree rape, extortionate kidnapping, and rape or forcible sodomy of a victim under 14 where the defendant had a prior conviction of sexual abuse of a person under 14 but the death penalty for these crimes is no longer constitutional since the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case Kennedy v. Louisiana.
text: In Furman, the justices who found the death penalty to be unconstitutional pointed to the language of the Eighth Amendment as the basis of their decision.
text: For example, the Court held that the death penalty is an unconstitutional punishment for the crime of rape.
text: In the 2008 case Kennedy v. Louisiana, the court also held 5–4 that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to non-homicidal crimes against the person, including child rape.
text: The death penalty has been unconstitutional in Michigan since the 1963 constitution became effective in 1964.
text: Chief Justice warren e. burger, who filed a dissenting opinion, relied heavily upon the language of the Fifth Amendment to support his argument that the death penalty was constitutional.