Cruelandunusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation...
Cruelandunusual is commonly used to describe certain controversial forms of physical punishment, for which see: Cruelandunusual punishment Cruel and...
Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruelandunusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along...
(formerly CruelandUnusual Films, Inc.) is an American production company established in 2004 by filmmaker Zack Snyder, his wife Deborah Snyder and their...
described by some as cruelandunusual. Opponents in particular critique the operation of lethal injections by untrained corrections officers and the lack of guarantee...
Court ruled that execution by electric chair constituted a form of "cruelandunusual punishment" under the state's constitution. This decision marked the...
precedent for the right to keep and bear arms (although this applied only to Protestants) and prohibited cruelandunusual punishment. The greatest influence...
declared explicitly, for the first time, that the Eighth Amendment's cruelandunusual punishment clause must draw its meaning from the "evolving standards...
company The Stone Quarry (formerly known as CruelandUnusual Films) alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller. Zachary Edward...
opposed the death penalty, which in his view constituted cruelandunusual punishment; he and Brennan dissented in more than 1,400 cases in which the majority...
Soft and Dry deodorant in New Zealand. The couple began dating at the end of filming. In 2004, the couple became the co-founders of CruelandUnusual Films...
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book publishers. It produces material featuring numerous well-known superhero characters, including...
states that cruelandunusual punishment shall not be inflicted. During this time period, hanging was not considered to be cruelandunusual, yet almost...
free elections, and parliamentary privilege. It also listed individual rights, including the prohibition of cruelandunusual punishment and the right not...
ruled in 2008 (Baze v. Rees) and again in 2015 (Glossip v. Gross) that lethal injection does not constitute cruelandunusual punishment. In Bucklew v. Precythe...
provisions related to criminal sentencing. The Excessive Fines Clause and the CruelandUnusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States...
while ruling that conditions in the Arkansas penal system constituted cruelandunusual punishment. Prisoners were fed "grue", described as "a substance created...
detention, to secure compensation and as a last resort but not generally as punishment, except in the Songhai Empire (1464–1591) and in connection with the slave...