The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging ...
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 ...
People are blasting a Canadian shopping mall for playing the song "Baby Shark" on loop to discourage homeless loitering, ...
"In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment," the former producer's spokesperson tells TheWrap ...
Harvey Weinstein is back in the emergency room after an "alarming blood test result" required hospitalization, his legal team ...
Virgin Sport rugby pundit and former Ireland international Shane Horgan has voiced his displeasure with what happened to Jack ...
Jack Crowley was dropped to the bench for the Wallabies clash, but that is not what surprised Ireland great Shane Horgan ...
As revealed by female prisoners who describe the untold, terrible truths of what's been occurring to female detainees behind ...
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 ...
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 ...