Guest Column: Robyn Barbour
by Robyn Barbour
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"On January 10, 2001, our only daughter, Laura, was murdered while home on winter break from college"
In its ruling in Hall v. Florida in May, the court — with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the helm — reminded us that the core value animating the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishments clause is the preservation of human dignity against the affront of unnecessarily harsh punishment.