The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing minors to life in prison without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Marcia Coyle of the ...
Since its first use in 1890, there have been several instances in which the electric chair inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on criminals sentenced to death. The Supreme Court should find that ...
The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging in “cruel and unusual punishment” in the September 2022 death of a ...
Coleman was asked whether the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment means the department is required to pay for gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people in ...
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder’s intellectual disability is severe enough that he can’t be executed, directing a lower court to first ...
Justices will hear arguments on cases that seek to expand “juvenile lifer" law to allow youth offenders serving life to get a ...
A man is sleeping on the ground next to a bus stop wrapped in a blanket when he is spotted by a police officer. A City of Las ...
They put a VIOLENT CHILD RAPIST in an isolated space with vulnerable women? This is cruel and unusual punishment. They knowingly put these women in harm's way. Good for the female inmate that's suing.
Others say they were assaulted by officers themselves. The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse.