It is also the one that offers the most protections against it. An inmate cannot be executed for crimes that do not result in someone's death. This has not always been the case, but in Gregg v. Georgia (1976), the Supreme Court established a rule that the death penalty can only be used for crimes if it is used for an acceptable punishment purpose and cannot be grossly disproportionate to the situation. the crime. This is seen again in the case of Coker v. Georgia (1977), where the inmate was sentenced to death after raping a woman. Although inmate Coker raped this woman after committing several crimes, none of them caused anyone's death. The court used the Gregg v. Georgia (1976) to rule that the death penalty was not proportional to the crime of rape. The death penalty has an “evolving standard of decency” that changes as society evolves (Trop v. Dulles, 1957). The Supreme Court addressed this issue in Ford v. Wainwright (1986). Ford was convicted of murder, but several years later he developed mental problems that left him unable to understand why he was being executed. The court declared that the Eighth Amendment; “prohibits the State from inflicting the death penalty on an insane prisoner. » This was reiterated in Atkins v. Virginia (2002) and Roper v. Simmons (2004). These cases summarize the court's ruling that if an inmate cannot understand why he is being executed