United States v. Briggs

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.

A case in which the Court held that the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s provision allowing rape, which is “punishable by death” under the UCMJ, to be “tried and punished at any time without limitation” is not affected by the Court’s precedent holding that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a death sentence for rape of an adult woman.