context: Nonetheless, the treaty reservations say nothing about whether a particular "period of confinement" is "constitutional." And this Court has long considered as relevant and informative the way in which foreign courts have applied standards roughly comparable to our own constitutional standards in roughly comparable circumstances. In doing so, the Court has found particularly instructive opinions of former Commonwealth nations insofar as those opinions reflect a legal tradition that also underlies our own Eighth Amendment.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 103 U. S. 168, 183-189
citation_a.parenthetical: referring to the practices of Parliament in determining whether the House of Representatives has the power to hold a witness in contempt
citation_a.sentence: See also Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 710, n. 8, and 718-719, n. 16 (1997) (surveying other nations' laws regarding assisted suicide); Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U. S. 568, 583-584, n. 25, and 588 (1961) (considering English practice concerning police interrogation of suspects); Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U. S. 168, 183-189 (1881) (referring to the practices of Parliament in determining whether the House of Representatives has the power to hold a witness in contempt). Willingness to consider foreign judicial views in comparable cases is not surprising in a Nation that from its birth has given a “decent respect to the opinions of mankind.”
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 458 U. S. 782, 796-797, n. 22
citation_b.parenthetical: noting that the doctrine of felony murder has been eliminated or restricted in England, India, Canada, and a "number of other Commonwealth countries"
citation_b.sentence: Thompson v. Oklahoma, supra, at 830-831 (opinion of Stevens, J.) (considering practices of Anglo-American nations regarding executing juveniles); Enmund v. Florida, 458 U. S. 782, 796-797, n. 22 (1982) (noting that the doctrine of felony murder has been eliminated or restricted in England, India, Canada, and a “number of other Commonwealth countries”); Coker v. Georgia, 433 U. S. 584, 596, n. 10 (1977) (observing that only 3 of 60 nations surveyed in 1965 retained the death penalty for rape); Trop v. Dulles, 356 U. S. 86, 102-103 (1958) (noting that only 2 of 84 countries surveyed imposed denationalization as a penalty for desertion).