The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against ...
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Louisiana inmates renew push for heat protections at Angola prison, call conditions ‘modern-day slavery’Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...
Together, they changed the legal landscape of the Eighth Amendment — the foundational constitutional protection against ...
These fundamental rights and principles are the backbone of America—tampering with them could change everything.
Lawmakers are looking to expand a law that requires parole hearings for persons convicted of a serious crime prior to turning ...
Florida leads the nation in death row exonerations, where people on death row have later been found innocent of their crimes.
The second category, which arguably reflects the understanding that prevailed in America before the drafting of the Eighth Amendment, would prohibit torturous punishments such as pillorying ...
How a Clinton-era law, the PLRA, hollowed out the Eighth Amendment. Nearly three years into Bill Clinton's first term as president, US senators took to the floor to tackle an urgent concern.
the Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row could make last-minute claims that the chemicals in lethal injections are too painful and violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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