Over the course of the next decade, multiple federal judges would call the sentence “cruel and unusual punishment.” They would overturn the ruling, then the state would appeal, until the Supreme Court sided with the state in 1982. According to records of the case, in 1976, the average sentence for an offense like Davis’s was about three and a half years, and the maximum was fifteen years.
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