Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation...
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Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause)
protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with...
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City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law)
government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people. In the...
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adopted in 1789 included the Eighth Amendment which prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The Fifth Amendment was drafted with language implying a possible...
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Cruel and unusual is commonly used to describe certain controversial forms of physical punishment, for which see: Cruel and unusual punishment Cruel and...
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Electric chair (section Process and mechanism)
the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled electric chair execution as "cruel and unusual punishment" under the state constitution. This decision ended electric chair...
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Robinson v. California (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law)
a cruel and unusual punishment. The Court said that "if the punishment prescribed for an offense against the laws of the State were manifestly cruel and...
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precedent for the right to keep and bear arms (although this applied only to Protestants) and prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The greatest influence...
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Parole (section Debates and reform efforts)
statutorily mandated 25 years was unconstitutional for being "cruel and unusual" punishment. In China, prisoners are often granted medical parole or compassionate...
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Court held that the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to disciplinary corporal punishment in public schools,...
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Furman v. Georgia (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law)
imposition of the death penalty in these cases constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated the Constitution. However, the majority could not...
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ruling that conditions in the Arkansas penal system constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners were fed "grue", described as "a substance created...
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Gregg v. Georgia (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law)
employ in order to comply with the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishments". The decision essentially ended the de facto moratorium on...
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Habitual offender (section Unjust and unusual results)
Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment". Aggravation (legal concept) "Dangerous Offender Legislation...
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Willie Francis (section Arrest and trial)
Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. These included violations of equal protection, double jeopardy, and cruel and unusual punishment. The US Supreme...
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2008 (Baze v. Rees) and again in 2015 (Glossip v. Gross) that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. In Bucklew v. Precythe...
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Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment have had mixed success, with solitary confinement found to constitute cruel and unusual punishment when applied...
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People v. Anderson (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law)
and decided the death penalty was cruel or unusual. The court ruled that the use of capital punishment was considered impermissibly cruel or unusual as...
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William Kemmler (section Murder and execution)
development and legislation, the chair was considered ready for use. Kemmler's lawyers appealed, arguing that electrocution was a cruel and unusual punishment. The...
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the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of...
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Lockyer v. Andrade (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law)
three-strikes sentence was cruel and unusual punishment, the 50-years-to-life sentence imposed in this case was not cruel and unusual punishment. On November 4,...
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cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights. A district court judge dismissed the suit against several of the defendants and ruled...
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daughter was cruel and unusual. The section states: 12. Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. R. v. Smith...
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Three-strikes law (redirect from Three Strikes and You're Out)
was disputed by Erwin Chemerinsky, who represented Andrade, as cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled in support for...
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him. It would be gratuitous punishment." They argued that his execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment and requested that he be granted...
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Life imprisonment in the United States (category Imprisonment and detention in the United States)
possibility of parole and 50 years to life and stated that neither sentence conflicted with the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" in the Eighth Amendment...
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Derby's dose was cruel and unusual punishment and torture used in Jamaica to punish slaves who attempted to escape or committed other offenses like stealing...
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Coker v. Georgia (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law)
in keeping with their view that the death penalty is per se cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Powell concurred in the judgment, but he emphasized...
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Kennedy v. Louisiana (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law)
Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a crime in which the victim did not die and the victim's...
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