Sentence examples for under the eighth amendment from inspiring English sources

That is fairly settled law under the eighth amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.

Those protections come under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.

Ireland has strict laws banning abortion, with a foetus given rights equal to the woman carrying it under the eighth amendment of the constitution.

The penalty was, the court ruled, disproportionate to the crime and therefore forbidden as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

The Baze decision did not foreclose all challenges to lethal injections under the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.

During that time he was held largely in solitary confinement – conditions that it has been argued amount to cruel and unusual punishment that should be banned under the eighth amendment of the US constitution.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit then held the initiative's contribution limits unconstitutional under the First Amendment...

They are protected under the second amendment.

The latter is protected under the first amendment.

That's their right under the First Amendment".

He appealed first under the First Amendment, contending that he was exercising his free speech.