8th
Trop v. Dulles 1957
The goverment cannot take away ones citizenship due to misbehavior.
Robinson v. California 1962
Can’t punish for status (being addicted to narcotics)
Ford v. Wainwright 1974
Supreme Court ruled that the 8th Amendment prohibits the execution of a person who is insane.
Coker v Georgia 1997
The death penalty can not be used for the crime of rape
Atkins v. Virginia 2002
Sentencing a mentally disabled person with the death sentence violates the 8th Amendment.
Roper v. Simmons 2004
Sentencing a minor with the death sentence violates the 8th Amendment.
Baze v. Rees 2008
Kentuckys lethal injection concoction does not violate the 8th amendment.
Kennedy v. Louisiana 2008
The death penalty can not be given to a defendent who raped a 8 year old child.
Glossip v. Gross 2015
Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol does not violate the 8th Amendment.
Miller v. Alabama 2012
Can’t sentence juveniles to life w/o parole
Hall v. Florida 2014
E\xecuting an intellectually disabled individual violates the protections against cruel and unusal punishments of the 8th Amendment.
Bucklew v. Precythe 2019
Courts are not required to to use an alternative method of execution for medical contions if not enough evidence is provided to show that 1, the medical condition is as sever as the inmate says, 2, the proposed method of exection would redue the risks of pain severely, 3, the proposed method of execution is readily available.
Madison v. Alabama 2019
The 8th Amendment does not prohibit a state from executing a prisoner who cannot remember committing his crime UNLESS the prisoner cannot rationally understand the reason for his execution due to conditions such as psychosis or dementia.
Kahler v. Kansas 2019
The Kansas court is NOT required to adopt the insanity to see if a defendants ability to recognize if his crime was morally wrong. The court belives that no single version of the insanity defense has been deemed fundamental in American law so it isnt required to define the precise relationship between criminal culpability and mental ilness.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson 2024
Prohibiting camping/sleeping on public property does not violate the 8th amendment and its no cruel and unusual punishments.