Stripping away voting rights for some crimes is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment, the appeal argues. A majority of justices rejected arguments over cruel and unusual ...
People are blasting a Canadian shopping mall for playing the song "Baby Shark" on loop to discourage homeless loitering, ...
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Virgin Sport rugby pundit and former Ireland international Shane Horgan has voiced his displeasure with what happened to Jack ...
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. There is little in the historical record to suggest that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause was the subject of much discussion during the drafting ...
He claimed another execution attempt would amount to cruel and unusual punishment, violating his Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. The Idaho Supreme Court unanimously sided with the district ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 ...