Home
Archive
Newsletters
Video
Blogs
Discuss
About
Search
Donate
Advertise
  • AlterNetYour turn

Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.


Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.

Advertisement
Advertisement

On AlterNet: 8th amendment

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "8th amendment"

Chronicle of a Failed Execution: Ohio Prisoner

Chronicle of a Failed Execution: Ohio Prisoner "Traumatized" After Two-Hour Death Chamber Ordeal

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"?

Texas Planning to Execute Another Prisoner for a Murder He Didn't Commit

Texas Planning to Execute Another Prisoner for a Murder He Didn't Commit

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.

Executions Resume Today, Death Penalty Still Cruel and Unusual

Executions Resume Today, Death Penalty Still Cruel and Unusual

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.

Scalia's Tortured Logic

Scalia's Tortured Logic

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.

The Supreme Court Brings Back the Death Penalty

The Supreme Court Brings Back the Death Penalty

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.