The Annenberg Public Policy Center released a film titled “The Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment” on Annenberg Classroom in recognition of Constitution Day on Sept. 17. The 24-minute film ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. One thing I will be watching for is whether the justices in their questions treat ...

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law in America. Amendments are part of the Constitution. The first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1789. The Eighth Amendment to the ...

In a major opinion affecting how cities can address homelessness, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that an Oregon city's enforcement of a public camping ban against the "involuntarily" homeless does ...

Dinner for Schmucks isn’t a total clunker; it’s got some decent laughs thanks to its two main stars, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, who do the best they can with the material they’ve been handed.

Lawyers for a condemned man and the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana filed a lawsuit in Helena Thursday asserting that death by lethal injection, Montana’s only execution method, is cruel, ...