U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer resumed his critique of the death penalty in America on Monday, but without the help of any other justice.

Breyer alone dissented from the court’s denial of review in Boyer v. Davis, a California case in which inmate Richard Boyer claims that his extended stay on death row—he was sentenced to death 32 years ago—violates the Eighth Amendment.

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