Together, they changed the legal landscape of the Eighth Amendment — the foundational constitutional protection against "cruel and unusual punishments." Heavy criticism soon followed — from ...

Four years ago, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled (in Martin v. City of Boise) that “the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bars a city from prosecuting people criminally ...

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.

Johnson that a city does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments when it enforces against homeless individuals its ordinance that bars encampments on public property.

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.

The ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court says in part: “Because it’s premised on the odd notion that the Eighth Amendment somehow requires Louisiana to use an admittedly more painful method of ...

QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) ("QuickLogic" or the "Company"), a leading provider of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, and ruggedized FPGAs, today announced that, effective March 17, 2025, it ...