Eighth Amendmentin a sentence
- In 2005, the Court recognized that differences between children and adults required that kids be shielded from the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.† (source)
- Spare me the Eighth Amendment.† (source)
- The Eighth Amendment uses phrases taken from the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
- In the cases where the Supreme Court had previously granted relief under the Eighth Amendment, the number of sentences challenged usually totaled fewer than a hundred or so nationwide.† (source)
- The Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment precedent requires not only that a particular sentence offend "evolving standards of decency.' but also that it be "unusual."† (source)