Berry on Furman's Comparative Proportionality

William W. Berry III (University of Mississippi School of Law) has posted Remembering Furman's Comparative Proportionality: A Response to Smith and Staihar (101 Iowa Law Review Online 65 (2016)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This short paper responds to recent articles in the Iowa Law Review by Robert Smith and Jim Staihar. Specifically, it emphasizes the value of comparative proportionality in understanding both the Eighth Amendment and retributive theory.