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How 'cruel and unusual punishment' and 'excessive fines' clauses apply to Tennessee
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoThe first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1789. Amendment VIII states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed ...
A question of 'cruel and unusual punishment' in Louisiana
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoOates’ brutal sentence for perjury in 1685 is partly the reason the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual</ ...
Officials and community leaders anxiously await SCOTUS homelessness ruling
CBS News· 4 days agoAt stake for SCOTUS is the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping, and whether...
Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJohnson. Lower courts have ruled that arresting someone for sleeping outside when there are no free...
Here are the major cases the Supreme Court will decide on in the coming weeks - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoThe Supreme Court preserved access to a commonly used abortion medication, mifepristone, rejecting a...
Your Guide to This Year’s Major Supreme Court Cases
Capital B via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHer words sounded ominous, like a warning. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the bench’s most senior liberal member, recently recalled that, on...
Defense lawyers want May 14 killer exempted from the death penalty
The Buffalo News· 6 days agoLawyers for the shooter who killed 10 people at a Tops grocery store in 2022 have asked for a...
Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
The Economist· 4 days agoDelisha Boyd is the product of a rape. Ms Boyd, a black Democratic state representative from New Orleans, told her story publicly for the first time when...
Gov. Justice tries again to avoid testimony on state corrections lawsuit
The Martinsburg Journal· 6 days agoAttorneys for Gov. Jim Justice and Chief of Staff Brian Abraham argue that attempts by attorneys...
Tops supermarket shooter wants federal case dismissed, death penalty ruled cruel and unusual...
WKBW-TV Buffalo· 6 days agoLawyers for Payton Gendron, the man who shot and killed ten Black people at Tops on Jefferson Avenue, want a federal judge to dismiss the entire federal case against him. In a court filing, ...