Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
