President Trump says the Justice Department is reviewing laws to see if it can send violent U.S. citizens abroad.

Others say they were assaulted by officers themselves. The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse.

Senate Bill 375 was signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders after passing the legislature on April 10, making Arkansas one of the few states in the nation with a law allowing the death ...

In their class action, 170 felons sentenced to life argued the state’s parole commission did not give them a meaningful ...

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 ...

Together, they changed the legal landscape of the Eighth Amendment — the foundational constitutional protection against ...

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.

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

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.