8th Amendment

Denying a solitary-confinement prisoner access to exercise for three years violates the Constitution, says Justice Jackson.

A divided Supreme Court of Mississippi upheld a prisoner’s sentence of life imprisonment for possession of marijuana under ...

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court established an important precedent by ruling in Tyson Timbs’s favor, the ...

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 against Brett Jones, 31, a man convicted of committing murder when he was ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to review the life sentence without parole of Brett Jones, a Mississippi man ...

WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court rejected a request from a condemned man in Missouri with a rare and painful ...

In a major victory for limited-government advocates, the Supreme Court unanimously found that a constitutional ban on excessive ...

An Indiana man convicted of selling heroin worth less than $400 to an undercover detective may get back ...