#eighthamendment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eighthamendment, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/72426/ Angola Farm Line lawsuit, now class action, proceeds to five-day trial #angola #AngolaPrison #CivilRightsLawsuit #EighthAmendment #FarmLine #ForcedLabor #LouisianaDepartmentOfCorrections #MassIncarceration #PrisonConditions #PrisonLabor
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CW: Death Penalty
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value https://theconversation.com/in-death-penalty-cases-the-quest-for-justice-is-not-americas-highest-value-256042
States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.
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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
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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
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #EighthAmendment #homeless #law #lawFedi #LawProf