The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging ...

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"In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment," the former producer's spokesperson tells TheWrap ...

Hong Kong businessman and British national Jimmy Lai is being subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” given his continued imprisonment, according to the Foreign Secretary. David Lammy hit out at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...