Civil Rights
Palakovic v. Wetzel
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Eighth Amendment
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Eighth Amendment
United States v. Slatten
D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.
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Sentencing
Lucero v. People
Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.
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Constitutional Law
United States v. Sanchez-Gomez
Ninth Circuit Deems Unconstitutional Routine Shackling in Pretrial Proceedings.
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Capital Punishment
Courting Abolition
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Capital Punishment
Kansas v. Carr
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Eighth Amendment
Montgomery v. Louisiana
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Eighth Amendment
Statement of Interest of the United States, Bell v. City of Boise
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Capital Punishment
Glossip v. Gross
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Eighth Amendment
Hall v. Florida
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia[footnote-short-crop]536 U.S. 304 (2002).[/footnote-short-crop] that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of defendants with intellectual disability.[footnote-short-crop]See id. at 321. Atkins referred…