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Title: State West Virginia v. Douglas Ray Houston
Author : Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 19, 1980
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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"Article III, Section 5 of the West Virginia Constitution, which contains the cruel and unusual punishment counterpart to the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, has an express statement of the proportionality principle: Penalties shall be proportioned to the character and degree of the offence." Syllabus Point 8, State v. Vance, 164 W.Va. 216, 262 S.E.2d 423 (1980).