The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot ...

Saint Mary's College president Katie Conboy responds to a concerns about this year's commencement address speaker.

U.S. Code 4100, which established the Prisoner Transfer Program, says that an incarcerated person can only be transferred out ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act in the hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...

The lawsuit argues that pain and suffering from executions using pentobarbital violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel ...

Efforts by prosecutors and the defense to limit how evidence can be presented to the jury could prove to be the difference in ...

A Florida man convicted of kidnapping a 49-year-old Miami resident and strangling her to death in Monroe County was executed Wednesday evening.

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Nearly half a century after Chief Douglas Stankewitz was sentenced to die in a California courtroom, he remains ...

would not be complete for another 25 years — is insufficient under the Eighth Amendment. "While the Court has recognized the obstacles of funding, investigatory work, designing, and other ...