#eighth amendment

[frontpagewoman]

Trump is coming for American citizens.

[tearsofrefugees]

Bail for All, Except Undocumented Immigrants 

A Fifth Circuit ruling endorses detention without bond for undocumented immigrants. Will John Roberts and SCOTUS do their job?

[f3rnflower]

Having straight friends who are pretty should be considered cruel and unusual punishment

[that1garrulousfan]

wat

bro literally stole cookies like what—

[blindmanbaldwin]

Laws mean nothing, the enforcer is what matters:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution establishes we cannot punish offenders disproportionately, nor can we inflict wanton violence in a quest for retribution/justice.

Sentencing a man to die, marching him to his death, trying to inject him with toxins to kill him but failing is cruel and unusual. Not just in the physical trauma to the body, but also to the mind. Imagine being told "You are about to die", then surviving. Imagine repeating this cycle multiple times. Imagine all that uncertainty, all that pain.

A society ought to be judged by how they treat people at the bottom. "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" — those we scorn and treat as undeserving of basic human rights/compassion are us. As long as we as a society keep executing people, we will do nothing but execute ourselves.

Alabama Again Cancels an Execution Over Delays Inserting IV Lines

After last-minute appeals and issues with inserting an IV line, prison officials determined there was not enough time left to execute an inm

[antigonehappy]

South Carolina is trying to bring back use of the electric chair.

This is a CLEAR violation of the 8th amendment, which protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment, a category which this device falls solidly within.

The GOP claims to be the “upholders of the original constitution”, when really they only “uphold” what’s convenient to them, and allow other parts to be completely destroyed to fit their own agendas.

The country gains nothing by committing government-sanctioned homicides using taxpayer money. The people gain nothing. It serves only to benefit the establishment and an indoctrinated and revenge-thirsty base.

This does NOT serve to benefit the people. There is NO reason for this to happen, especially given the South’s extremely racist track record in their criminal justice system.

This isn’t okay. This isn’t just a ‘little thing’. This is the GOP doing what they do best- moving backwards and helping nobody.

Nothing about this will ever be acceptable in a modern society. Nothing.

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[dworkin-disciple]

jacob blake's attackers will face no charges of armed assult or police brutality because the victim was "armed with a knife".

this is an absolute failure of justice and a clear breach of jacob blake's second and eighth amendment rights. it is an amerikan's right to have a knife on their person, and paralysis is undoubtedly cruel and unusual, regardless.

kenosa clearly deserves to be prosecuted by the federal government for breach of the constitution.

where are the constitutionalists, the tea party, the conservative judges?? an amerikan was shot by police for owning a weapon. where is the nra?? these groups, these people should be up in arms against the city. every state attorney general should be signing on to the greatest federal case in a decade, to defend our constitutional rights. their failure to do so is disgusting hypocrisy.

[newyorker]

Ireland’s Vote on Abortion Is a Referendum on the Nation’s Future

The election—a test of the Catholic Church’s grip on the country—will determine whether Irish women will continue to be shamed and coerced if they don’t want to carry their pregnancies to term.

On Friday, Irish voters will decide whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the country’s constitution, which bans abortion under nearly all circumstances. This is a multifaceted crystal ball of a vote. It will help expose, for starters, how much the Catholic Church’s hold in Ireland has weakened, following years of revelations about child sexual abuse perpetrated by priests and about the Church’s mistreatment of “fallen women,” who had become pregnant out of wedlock. (In 2013, Ireland’s Prime Minister at the time, Enda Kenny, issued a state apology for the Church-run Magdalene Laundries, where such women were confined as unpaid workers, often in drudgery and cruelty.)