Excessive Sentencing State Comparison Chart

NACDL’s 50-state (plus DC) proportionality chart, which offers for each jurisdiction consolidated detail concerning (i) individual constitutional provisions, (ii) whether each is broader than the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, (iii) important holdings, (iv) important case law citations to Graham, (v) whether parole is discretionary, and (vi) whether LWOP and JLWOP sentences are currently available.