Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation... 10 KB (1,161 words) - 23:12, 1 April 2024 |
 | Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause) protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with... 79 KB (9,666 words) - 02:46, 23 April 2024 |
 | Parole (section Debates and reform efforts) statutorily mandated 25 years was unconstitutional for being "cruel and unusual" punishment. In China, prisoners are often granted medical parole or compassionate... 39 KB (4,838 words) - 17:51, 18 April 2024 |
Robinson v. California (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law) a cruel and unusual punishment. The Court said that "if the punishment prescribed for an offense against the laws of the State were manifestly cruel and... 17 KB (2,289 words) - 17:48, 22 April 2024 |
Cruel and unusual is commonly used to describe certain controversial forms of physical punishment, for which see: Cruel and unusual punishment Cruel and... 853 bytes (129 words) - 12:59, 15 January 2020 |
 | precedent for the right to keep and bear arms (although this applied only to Protestants) and prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The greatest influence... 115 KB (11,236 words) - 23:40, 5 April 2024 |
 | Electric chair (section Process and mechanism) ruled that execution by electric chair constituted a form of "cruel and unusual punishment" under the state's constitution. This decision marked the cessation... 43 KB (5,474 words) - 04:21, 28 April 2024 |
 | Court held that the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to disciplinary corporal punishment in public schools,... 51 KB (5,181 words) - 23:28, 24 March 2024 |
ruling that conditions in the Arkansas penal system constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners were fed "grue", described as "a substance created... 11 KB (908 words) - 19:43, 4 April 2024 |
Gregg v. Georgia (category Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and death penalty case law) employ in order to comply with the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishments". The decision essentially ended the de facto moratorium on... 36 KB (4,852 words) - 23:48, 13 January 2024 |