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60 B.C. L. Rev. 1545 (2019)
The Death Penalty and the Fundamental Right to Life

handle is hein.journals/bclr60 and id is 1574 raw text is: THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE KEVIN M. BARRY INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1547 I. THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT CHALLENGE ............................................ 1551 II. SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS GENERALLY. .......................... ....................... 1554 A. Is the Right Deprived Fundamental? ......................................... 1554 1. Specificity....................................................... 1556 2. History and Tradition................................................1557 3. Dignity...... .................................................... 1559 4. Negative and Positive Rights..........................................1561 B. Does the Law Meet the Appropriate Level of Scrutiny? ................................ 1562 III. THE DEATH PENALTY DEPRIVES THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE IN VIOLATION OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS ...................................................... 1563 A. Condemned Prisoners' Right to Life Is Fundamental ................................... 1563 1. Specificity........................................... ....... 1565 2. Negative Right.................................... ...................... 1565 3. History and Tradition ................................................ 1566 4. Dignity ..... ..................................................... 1583 B. The Death Penalty Is Not Narrowly Tailored to Serve a Compelling State Interest........ 1589 1. Compelling Interests Not Served......................... ..............1590 2. Not Narrowly Tailored ............. . ................... ...... 1593 IV. COUNTERARGUMENTS.......................................................... 1594 A. The Text of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Forecloses Recognition of the Condemned's Right to Life .......................... ...................... 1594 B. The Eighth Amendment, Not the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, Governs the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty Per se...................................... 1597 C. Recognition of the Condemned's Right to Life Will Undermine a Woman's Right to Abortion....... ...................................................... 1599 CONCLUSION .................................................................... 1604 1545