The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors... We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment The ...

The Supreme Courts proportionality jurisprudence under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause appears to be undergoing a kind of renaissance. Since 2002, the Court has held that the death penalty is ...

While many inmates of the Blair County Prison have recently filed individual lawsuits complaining about the living conditions they must endure, two additional inmates last Friday filed federal ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America If you’ve led a law-abiding life, chances are you have never encountered “nutriloaf ...

Troy Davis had already eaten his last meal Wednesday night as 7 p.m.--his scheduled execution time--came and went. A few minutes later, Georgia prison officials announced they would delay his ...

In the 19 new filings, entered just days before his next court appearance, McGann asks the court to drop the death penalty ...

A criminal complaint detailed that a man in Fayette County was arrested and charged with criminal abuse following reports of ...