What is the current state of the law on punishment under the Eighth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Martin v. Yates, No. CV 1-08-01401-CKJ (E.D. Cal. 2012):
Under the Eighth Amendment, punishment may not be "barbarous" nor may it contravene society's "evolving standards of decency." Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 346 (1981). Only deprivations denying the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities are sufficiently grave for an Eighth Amendment violation. Johnson v. Lewis,
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