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The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty itself does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” Yet the treatment of the condemned is nonetheless subject to Eighth Amendment protections, as well as Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process. In the past few years, this ironic legal reality has been the subject of a renewed […]

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Torture on Death Row: Court Rules Against Automatic Use of Solitary Confinement for the Condemned

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Videos Show Abuse of Mentally Ill in California Prisons

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Mumia Abu-Jamal Challenges Death Row Solitary Confinement and Life Without Parole

National and International Events Challenging Use of Solitary Confinement

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

Mumia Abu-Jamal Moved Off Death Row–and into Solitary Confinement

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Texas Prepares to Execute Hank Skinner Without Testing DNA

“On the Row, You Never See the Stars”: Oregon Prisoner Wants to Die to Escape Death Row

The Torture of Troy Davis

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs

Colorado Inmate Says He Was Thrown in Solitary for Refusing to Supply False Testimony

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

Cash-Strapped California to Spend $500 Million for New “Condemned Inmate Complex” (Death Row)

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Dead Man Killing Himself

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish