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  1. John Colagioia @[email protected] ·
    CW: Death Penalty

    In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value theconversation.com/in-death-p

    States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.

    #DeathRow #EighthAmendment #Exoneration

    #deathrow #eighthamendment #exoneration
  2. LilMikeSF @[email protected] ·

    #USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...

    #DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment

    US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...

    thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

    #usgov #incarceration #georgia #doj #prisons #inhumane
  3. Nonilex @[email protected] ·

    Writing for the majority, Justice Neil #Gorsuch said the problem of #homelessness is complex, but the #EighthAmendment “does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people & in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy.”
The decision returns the case to the lower courts, & it is not clear whether Grants Pass, OR will be able to enforce its #laws against #homeless individuals.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd

    #gorsuch #homelessness #eighthamendment #laws #homeless
  4. Nonilex @[email protected] ·

    In a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.

    So much for love thy neighbor

    #law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless

    #homelessness #eighthamendment #cruelandunusual #noaccess #shelter #homelesspeople
  5. Caroline Mala Corbin @[email protected] ·

    City of Grant's Pass v. Johnson, Supreme Court reverses 9th Circuit, holding that laws re camping on public property used to punish homeless are not cruel and unusual punishment

    supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pd

    #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #EighthAmendment #homeless #law #lawFedi #LawProf

    #supremecourt #scotus #eighthamendment #homeless #law #lawfedi