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...

ruled that execution by electric chair constituted a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" under the state's constitution. This decision marked the cessation...

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

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

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

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

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

imposition of the death penalty in these cases constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated the Constitution. However, the majority could not...

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

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

government's ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people. In the 1962...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

draconian measures, and cruel and unusual punishment. In divorce cases, many jurisdictions permit a cause of action for cruel and inhumane treatment....

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

was disputed by Erwin Chemerinsky, who represented Andrade, as cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled in support for...

surrounded the double jeopardy clause of the 5th Amendment, and the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the 8th Amendment, as made applicable to the State...

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...

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