The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments. It has long been established that this ban does not categorically rule out the death penalty.

Legal abstractions in Obergefell v. Hodges have concrete results

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Nowhere in the constitution is there any support for the Court’s radical interpretation.

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