In 2020, the U.S. federal government carried out ten exe-cutions, more than in any year since 1896. In a single week in January 2021, it carried out three more.
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Jay Clayton
Jay Clayton
Jay Clayton is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2016.
He would like to thank Miriam George for her terrific comments on this piece, and Daniel Loehr for his input and guidance.
The Supreme Court “has never invalidated a [ ] chosen procedure for carrying out a sentence of death as the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment.”
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