Eighth Amendment

Would the Founders have protected people we execute now?

An Alabama man faces execution by nitrogen gas—the first U.S. execution by gas in a quarter-century, 100 years after the practice began.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

Proponents believe lethal injection to be a medical marvel, but in reality it’s junk science.

No other nation sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed as minors.

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.

Fifty years ago in 1972, as spring faded and summer arrived in late June, America (and the world) was a vastly different place.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.