The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

In San Jose yesterday, an anesthesiologist from Columbia Medical School said convicts executed by lethal injection in California may have been conscious and suffered excruciating pain. Today is the ...

Recently, a student at a Nyamira secondary school committed suicide when a teacher confiscated her mobile phone, and read out to the school her romantic text messages. At Nairobi primary school, a ...

The U.S. Constitution famously outlaws "cruel and unusual punishments." But there's another, far more obscure part of the Constitution called the Excessive Fines Clause, which basically says that the ...

As the Trump administration rounds up people it alleges to be illegal aliens and gang members, deports them to El Salvador, and pays to imprison them there without convicting them of any crime, ...