The Eighth Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights and it prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. But, what exactly does the Eighth Amendment prohibit and what is considered cruel and unusual ...

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects us from “cruel and unusual punishment” by the government. This seemingly simple language raises a host of complicated questions.

He questioned whether the court would now "return to the text and original meaning of the 8th Amendment" as it has done in other areas, like the 2nd Amendment. He pointed to last year's Supreme ...

In a second dissent, Judge Mark J. Bennett argued that “text, tradition, and original public meaning” establish that the Eighth Amendment does not ordinarily “impose substantive limits on ...

The city claims that’s not what the Eighth Amendment means. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington At the core of the Supreme Court battle over a small Oregon town’s treatment of its ...

Black and brown people are treated more harshly in the criminal legal system than white people convicted of similar crimes. This is not news. Studies since the 1970s have consistently shown that ...