Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation...

protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with...

Cruel and unusual is commonly used to describe certain controversial forms of physical punishment, for which see: Cruel and unusual punishment Cruel and...

adopted in 1789 included the Eighth Amendment which prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The Fifth Amendment was drafted with language implying a possible...

the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled electric chair execution as "cruel and unusual punishment" under the state constitution. This decision ended electric chair...

statutorily mandated 25 years was unconstitutional for being "cruel and unusual" punishment. In China, prisoners are often granted medical parole or compassionate...

arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. It was...

precedent for the right to keep and bear arms (although this applied only to Protestants) and prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The greatest influence...

government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people. In the...

employ in order to comply with the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishments". The decision essentially ended the de facto moratorium on...

Court held that the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to disciplinary corporal punishment in public schools,...

ruling that conditions in the Arkansas penal system constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners were fed "grue", described as "a substance created...

Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. These included violations of equal protection, double jeopardy, and cruel and unusual punishment. The US Supreme...

him. It would be gratuitous punishment." They argued that his execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment and requested that he be granted...

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...

Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment have had mixed success, with solitary confinement found to constitute cruel and unusual punishment when applied...

cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights. A district court judge dismissed the suit against several of the defendants and ruled...

development and legislation, the chair was considered ready for use. Kemmler's lawyers appealed, arguing that electrocution was a cruel and unusual punishment. The...

claiming that lethal injection as practiced violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" found in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

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...

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...

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...

kill prisoners convicted of capital crimes do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment". Aggravation (legal concept) "Dangerous Offender Legislation...

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...

and Freedoms, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Parole eligibility for second degree murder typically varies between 10 and 25 years, and...

restricted to a review of the evidence presented before the trial court, and do not permit the introduction of new evidence. A criminal trial is designed...

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,...

penalty did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed while they...

Florida's electric chair was malfunctioning and subjected death row inmates to cruel and unusual punishment. Jerry White was born on February 12, 1948...