There is very strong public support for decentralising the High Court Division of the Supreme Court. As part of its work, the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC), through the Bangladesh Bureau of ...

Scarce attention has been paid to another relevant part of the Bill of Rights: the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment,” a limit on state power that ...

The Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits this course of action. White House lawyers should read the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Trop v. Dulles.

of section 1 of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (14 of 2025), the Central Government hereby appoints the 8th day of April, 2025 as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall come into ...

Others say they were assaulted by officers themselves. The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse.

But in accusing the prison of violating the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, the DOJ has raised the stakes of the battle, invoking Constitutional safeguards that are ...

The Annenberg Public Policy Center released a documentary on the Eighth Amendment in recognition of Constitution Day on Sept. 17. Credit: Gabriel Jung The Annenberg Public Policy Center released a ...

So far this year, three False Claims Act defendants have challenged judgments against them based on the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. Remarkably, two were successful, as the ...

unnecessary or malicious pain" and that the Eighth Amendment protects someone from malicious pain - but not a painless death. Prosecutors also said Creech was not "biologically incapable" of being ...

Alabama, the Justices had barred judges from sentencing juveniles to mandatory life without parole, on the ground that doing so violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.