Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, along with Justice Stephen Breyer, had called for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider anew the constitutionality of the death penalty, passed away due to complications with cancer. Prior to her service on the U.S. Supreme Court, as a lawyer with the ACLU, Justice Ginsburg authored an amicus brief in the death penalty case Coker v. Georgia, in which the Court held that the death penalty for rape was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment.
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