In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 ...

People are blasting a Canadian shopping mall for playing the song "Baby Shark" on loop to discourage homeless loitering, ...

Jack Crowley was dropped to the bench for the Wallabies clash, but that is not what surprised Ireland great Shane Horgan ...

The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row inmate would not violate his Eighth ...

Since its first use in 1890, there have been several instances in which the electric chair inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on criminals sentenced to death. The Supreme Court should find that ...

This case is the second in recent years — and the third since the late 19th century — that asks the Supreme Court to overturn ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing minors to life in prison without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Marcia Coyle of the ...

nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. There is little in the historical record to suggest that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause was the subject of much discussion during the drafting ...

Stripping away voting rights for some crimes is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment, the appeal argues. A majority of justices rejected arguments over cruel and unusual ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder’s intellectual disability is severe enough that he can’t be executed, directing a lower court to first ...