Cruel and Unusual Punishment

AEGiS-HEPP: HIV Treatment and the 8th Amendment
Two cases at the circuit court level (just below the Supreme Court) have dealt with denial of HIV treatment under the 8th Amendment. In Perkins v. ...
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American Civil Liberties Union : Death Penalty
The ACLU Capital Punishment Project is fighting for the end of the death penalty by ... the Eighth Amendment prohitibion of cruel and unusual punishment. ...
www.aclu.org/capital/index.html

Cruel and Unusual Punishment legal definition of Cruel and Unusual ...
Definition of Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is Cruel and Unusual ...
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Cruel and unusual punishment? : Local Columnists : Times Record News
Would this be cruel and unusual punishment resulting from a poorly conducted, poorly supervised and unmonitored procedure? I’d say so. ...
www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/jan/09/cruel-and-unusual-punishment/

Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison

This 2007 study "has documented 73 cases where children 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to death in prison. ... This report is intended to illuminate this cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on children, particularly for those who have been without legal help for so long." Includes profiles of some of the children, data, and photos. Opens directly into a PDF file. From the nonprofit law organization, Equal Justice Initiative.
http://eji.org/eji/files/20071017cruelandunusual.pdf

Cruel and Unusual Punishment under the Eighth Amendment
This page includes materials relating to the continuing controversy over the use of the death penalty in many American states.
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/conlaw/cruelunusual.html - 21k -

 Death Penalty, Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Juveniles, Faith & Ethics
This site has review and discussion of the death penalty facts, statistics and issues, including ethics and faith-based views, child executions, the death ...
usliberals.about.com/od/deathpenalty/Death_Penalty_Cruel_Unusual_Punishment_Juveniles_Appeals.htm - 20k -

Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual?
In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment, which protects Americans from cruel and unusual" punishment ...
speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1230b-1.html - 24k -

Oyez: Helling v. McKinney, 509 U.S. 25 (1993), U.S. Supreme Court ...
Facts of the Case. William McKinney, a Nevada state prisoner, sued his warden and several other prison officials for violating his Eighth Amendment rights ...
www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1992/1992_91_1958/ - 15k -

Oyez: Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1 (1992), U.S. Supreme Court ...
Hudson argued that they had violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. The District Court ruled that the guards had ...
www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1991/1991_90_6531/ - 15k -

Punishment: The Death Penalty
Is the death penalty an effective deterrent to crime or a violation of the United States Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment? ...
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The Supreme Court: Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual ...
The 6 to 3 ruling that the death penalty for Atkins was cruel and unusual punishment, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who was joined by Justices ...
www.infoplease.com/cig/supreme-court/death-penalty-cruel-unusual-punishment.html

ThisNation.com--Is the death penalty Constitutional?
The Supreme Court has addressed the question of whether the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment several times. In doing so, it has generally ...
www.thisnation.com/question/018.html - 12k -

US: Electric Chair Banned as Cruel, Unusual Punishment (Human ...
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled today that execution by electrocution violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment found in Article I, ...
hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/08/usdom18025.htm - 20k -

 

U.S. Supreme Court - The New York Times -
Rejecting the Justice Department's argument in two cases, the Court found that the Eighth Amendment clause that bars "excessive fines" requires that there ...
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