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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This is cruel and unusual punishment, which ought to be banned under the 8th Amendment to the Constitution. Then, the political class wonders why voter turnout is trending lower and young people ...