A California deathrow inmate has lost a constitutional challenge arguing the decades that it takes to resolve capital appeals amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Tag: 8th Amendment
Death Penalty Delays Reviewed
What was to be a major challenge to the constitutionality of the decade-long delays in carrying out California’s death penalty turned into a procedural quagmire
‘One Eye is Not Good Enough’ is Bad Prison Policy
A Nevada prison policy of “one eye is good enough” amounts to deliberate indifference to an inmate’s medical need for cataract surgery in violation of
Death Penalty Struck Down
A federal judge in Los Angeles declared California’s death penalty unconstitutional Wednesday for its arbitrary and unpredictable delays in violation of protections against cruel and
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