increasing disproportionality for hate crimes:
http://www.issues-views.com/index.ph...2/article/1199
irwin chemerinsky, from my alma mater USC, speaks on punishment disproportionality in California:
http://lawweb.usc.edu/lawmag/archive...s/supreme.html
and of course, google on 'cruel and unusual punishment':
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search