Eighth Amendment

Manning v. Caldwell

Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Justice White’s Concurrence in Powell v. Texas as Binding Precedent.

Palakovic v. Wetzel

Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

United States v. Slatten

D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.

Lucero v. People

Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.

United States v. Sanchez-Gomez

Ninth Circuit Deems Unconstitutional Routine Shackling in Pretrial Proceedings.

Courting Abolition

• Deborah W. Denno

Kansas v. Carr

Montgomery v. Louisiana

Statement of Interest of the United States, Bell v. City of Boise