Articles related to "Eighth Amendment"

The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. It grants certain rights in the context of criminal prosecutions.

An analysis of how the Constitution and judicial discretion conflict with Congressional politics over the idea of mandatory minimums and the war on drugs.

Physicians can be torn between their Hippocratic calling to alleviate suffering and their ethical concerns over sanitizing state-sanctified executions.

A criminal defendant has many protections from the power of government to take away his life, liberty or property. These protections are found in the US Constitution.

Although some believe capital punishment deters future crime, others feel it is biased, wrong, and unjustly sending innocent men and women to their deaths.

Most states still have a death penalty. But even in those states, death sentences and executions are becoming rare. Is this a trend toward abolition of the death penalty?