Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime

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Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime

reason.com/volokh/2025/07/03/dont-plead-history-for-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-challenge-to-long-prison-sentence-for-rape-when-rape-was-historically-a-capital-crime

From yesterday's decision of the Iowa court of Appeals in Cue v. State, written by Judge Tyler Buller and joined by Judges Julie Schumacher and John Sandy:
Cue's … application for postconviction relief … cited New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), to claim that…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-07-03 21:23:40.