The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide the amendment's boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? In this hour, the shifting definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

The firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the U.S. Defense Department said.

Recently, the spotlight has been on a failed lethal injection in Tennessee and the announcement that a federal execution will be broadcast live in December.

In deciding his death sentence, jurors did not have evidence of a childhood stroke that affected Wessinger’s mental capacity, attorneys say.

As a botched Tennessee execution renews death penalty scrutiny, this is what polls show about opinion on capital punishment.

Payton Gendron, already serving life in prison for a state conviction, faces a potential death penalty in a federal trial over the 2022 shooting that killed 10.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday declared capital punishment ''inadmissible" as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court will not delay the upcoming clemency hearings set for death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit.

The jury member sent an email to the judge that had him being excused from the trial. CBS News Miami's Nikiya Carrero was in the courtroom and explained what was said.