Army ROTC scholarships pay up to full tuition and fees, $1,200 per year for books, and a monthly stipend. Widener University also provides a generous room and board incentive to scholarship winners.
Two key cases affecting corrections coincide with the revitalization of the Eighth Amendment attendant to controversies about the death penalty, three strikes sentences for a nonviolent third offense, and life sentences for first-time minor drug offenders.n the second case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found an Eighth Amendment violation in Michigan's policy of terminating inmate visits as a means of punishing substance abuse violations (Bazetta v. McGinnis, 2002).
The Eighth Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Clarence Darrow attacks the death penalty during the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924. (Richard Loeb is seated behind Darrrow.) Executions in the U. S., 1950 to 2013 Questions 1.n the death penalty phase of trials, jurors are now required to make specific findings concerning the presence or absence of mitigating and aggravating factors concerning the defendant's crime.