The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jack Crowley was dropped to the bench for the Wallabies clash, but that is not what surprised Ireland great Shane Horgan ...
This case is the second in recent years — and the third since the late 19th century — that asks the Supreme Court to overturn ...
The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row inmate would not violate his Eighth ...
As revealed by female prisoners who describe the untold, terrible truths of what's been occurring to female detainees behind ...
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 ...
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 ...