In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Court held in a five-to-four decision that the Eighth Amendment banned the arbitrary infliction of the death penalty, requiring states to rewrite their laws to ...

Mr. Lyman then overstates US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s 1994 opinion (that the death penalty violates the Eighth ...

"Unfortunately, the death penalty remains too real a possibility ... row awaiting a punishment that clearly would violate the Eighth Amendment." The defense argues a death verdict based on ...

President Biden pardoned the death sentences of 37 people on death row in federal prisons. These folks will remain in prison without chance of parole. He has been both praised and pilloried for his ...

The Department seized upon Thompson’s death as an egregious example of ... But in accusing the prison of violating the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, the DOJ has ...

An annual report put together by a national group that tracks the death penalty says Florida led the nation this year in ...

Although the Court still upholds the death penalty in general, it must be carried out following strict procedures. The Court has also ruled that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a juvenile or a ...

“In my view, ‘the Eighth Amendment requires individual jurors to make, and to take responsibility for, a decision to sentence a person to death,’” Breyer added. Death-penalty cases have inspired many ...