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Jeff Sessions: “It seems to me that--well, I could see that that would be a theory. Is that the theory that Marshall and Brennan used…”

On the recordApril 15, 2010
It seems to me that--well, I could see that that would be a theory. Is that the theory that Marshall and Brennan used when they consistently dissented in every death penalty case, asserting that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment?
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions questions the legal theory behind dissenting opinions on the death penalty.

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