As revealed by female prisoners who describe the untold, terrible truths of what's been occurring to female detainees behind ...
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 ...
This case is the second in recent years — and the third since the late 19th century — that asks the Supreme Court to overturn ...
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 ...
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 faulted ...
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 ...
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 ...