Anti-hijacking Act of 1973: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Parte2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 |
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abolition aircraft hijacking aircraft piracy airlines airport arrest Assistant Attorney authority Bedau Bill of Rights California capital punishment Chairman Jarman Chief Justice Clause committed Committee concurring 408 U.S. concurring opinions CONGRESS THE LIBRARY constitutional constitutionality convicted crimes criminal cruel and unusual death penalty death sentence decision defendant Department of Justice deterrent DINGELL dissenting 408 U.S. DIXON due process Eighth Amendment execution Federal Aviation Fourteenth Amendment FURMAN GEORGIA GEORGIA BRENNAN GEORGIA MARSHALL GEORGIA POWELL Hubbard imposed imposition imprisonment inflicted ishment judges judgment judicial jurisdiction jury JUSTICE STEWART KUYKENDALL law enforcement officers legislation legislatures Louisiana ex rel magnetometer McGautha ment murder National OCTOBER TERM offenses person PETERSEN petitioners present prison problem prohibition prosecution punishment of death question rape responsibility Resweber severe punishment SKUBITZ skyjacking society standards statute supra Supreme Court tion U.S. attorney unconstitutional United United States Code unusual punishments violation Wackenhut Weems
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Página 515 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Página 681 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Página 660 - The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
Página 433 - These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. For, of all the people convicted of rapes and murders in 1967 and 1968, many just as reprehensible as these, the petitioners are among a capriciously selected random handful upon whom the sentence of death has in fact been imposed.
Página 487 - The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger. And in determining whether the officer acted reasonably in such circumstances, due weight must be given, not to his inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or "hunch...
Página 540 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Página 739 - The disposition of mankind, whether as rulers or as fellow-citizens, to impose their own opinions and inclinations as a rule of conduct on others, is so energetically supported by some of the best and by some of the worst feelings incident to human nature, that it is hardly ever kept under restraint by anything but want, of power...
Página 739 - The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.
Página 474 - It is obvious that there may be matters of the sharpest exigency for the national well being that an act of Congress could not deal with but that a treaty followed by such an act could, and it is not lightly to be assumed that, in matters requiring national action, "a power which must belong to and somewhere reside in every civilized government
Página 741 - I have not yet adequately expressed the more than anxiety that I feel at the ever increasing scope given to the Fourteenth Amendment in cutting down what I believe to be the constitutional rights of the States. As the decisions now stand I see hardly any limit but the sky to the invalidating of those rights if they happen to strike a majority of this Court as for any reason undesirable. I cannot believe that the Amendment was intended to give us carte blanche to embody our economic or moral beliefs...