High Court Won't Mull 'Cruel And Unusual' Miss. Voting Ban

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to sections of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently bar people convicted of certain felonies from voting and which a federal court of appeals had found violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibitions against "cruel and unusual punishment."

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