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...Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
Returning to the school where he earned a law degree in 1931. Brennan told a Sanders Theater throng that the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" does not clearly dictate a position on the death penalty...
...seems we just can't know what punishment the framers considered cruel and unusual," Brennan said, adding that the "majestic generality" of the Constitution paves the way for modern interpretations by jurists...
After the address, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, a 1932 Law School graduate attending the anniversary, joined Brennan for a less formal discussion with about 200 law students...
...formal, 50-minute lecture, Brennan went beyond the question of capital punishment, discussing competing views of the high court's role...