The Idaho Supreme Court held Tuesday night that a second execution attempt of Thomas Creech does not amount to cruel and ...
This is cruel and unusual punishment, which ought to be banned under the 8th Amendment to the Constitution. Then, the ...
That decision came over the objections of Justice Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, who said they would have agreed to ...
A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...
Thomas Eugene Creech, a serial killer on death row in Idaho, was granted a stay in execution months after a first execution ...
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 ...
It also follows a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that found enforcement of homeless ...