Eighth Amendment

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

Vol. 129 No. 5 March 2016 Homelessness continues to be a serious social problem in the United States, with more than half a million people estimated to be homeless in...

Capital Punishment Leading Case

Glossip v. Gross

Vol. 129 No. 1 November 2015 In 2008, in Baze v. Rees, the Supreme Court considered an Eighth Amendment challenge to the use of a particular three-drug lethal injection protocol....

Eighth Amendment Leading Case

Hall v. Florida

Vol. 128 No. 1 November 2014 In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of defendants with intellectual disability. However, the...

Eighth Amendment Leading Case