Whether the execution of Russell Bucklew by lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment because he suffers from a rare medical condition that would cause him to ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided Bucklew v. Precythe, a case about the meaning of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments clause in the Eighth Amendment. I am passing along some thoughts on the ...

Supreme Court justices like to project an image of collegiality and sobriety to the American public. But that comity often breaks down when the court debates the death penalty. The latest example is ...

In 2006, then-Judge Neil Gorsuch wrote a book-length study “to propose and defend an exceptionless norm against the intentional taking of human life.” In furtherance of that idea, Gorsuch denounced ...

Newly minted justice Brett Kavanaugh heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in his first death penalty case, a controversial subject that is almost perpetually before the High Court. Bucklew suffers ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 5-4 decision against a death row inmate in Missouri who claimed that his execution by lethal injection would cause him “severe harm and suffering” because he ...

The US Supreme Court’s decision in Bucklew v. Precythe earlier this month, condemning a man to a lethal injection that is likely to cause him to suffocate on his own blood as tumors in his throat ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that Monday’s decision in Bucklew v. Precythe, in which the court voted 5-4 to reject a ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in two cases: the first concerning alternative methods of capital punishment for an inmate suffering from a rare illness, and the second concerning ...