– An Overview “The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available.”- Justice Thurgood Marshall Imagine a man who commits murder once, is given a fifteen-year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen since almost one in ten death row inmates has been convicted o ....