On AlterNet: 8th amendment
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "8th amendment"
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 24, 2009.
53-year-old Romell Broom wept and tried to help his executioners find a vein, only to leave the death chamber alive. This isn't "cruel and unusual punishment"?
Maura Kelly, Comment Is Free. August 15, 2008.
Jeff Wood was sentenced to death under Texas' draconian Law of Parties for a murder that he did not plan or witness. He faces execution next week.
Billy Sothern, The Nation. May 6, 2008.
Barring a last-minute stay of execution, death row prisoner William Lynd will be murdered by the state of Georgia tonight.
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008.
Twisting his argument into a legalistic pretzel, Justice Scalia insists that torture is not a form of punishment.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.
With a 7-2 ruling ending a moratorium on state-sanctioned killing, states across the country are gearing up to resume executions.
