A government that can execute its own people — and has executed innocent ones — holds a power no government should have. This statute takes it away: the death penalty is abolished, absolutely. It ends torture-by-solitary, sets real limits on how anyone in custody may be treated, and makes the state’s duty to keep them alive and cared for a hard obligation, not a courtesy.
The government executed people. Some were innocent — exonerated too late, or never. The power to kill was wielded unevenly, by race and by geography, and it could never be taken back.Check it
People were held for years in solitary confinement — isolation that breaks the human mind — as routine management, not last resort.Check it
Conditions inside were left to whoever ran the facility: overcrowding, violence, filth, denial of care, treated as the price of a conviction.Check it
And the medical duty owed to people the state caged was thin enough that people died of treatable things behind bars.Check it
The death penalty is abolished — every method, every circumstance, no exceptions. Existing death sentences are commuted by law. It can’t be reimposed under any label.
Extended solitary confinement is limited and its worst uses prohibited — isolation as a tool of breaking people is over.
Confinement carries enforceable minimum standards — the state can hold you, but it owes you treatment as a human being the whole time.
Medical care is an affirmative obligation the government cannot shrug off, backed by a private right to sue and structural relief when a system fails.
The state executed people — by injection, electrocution, gas, firing squad — including people later proven innocent, with the outcome shaped by race and geography.Check it
Abolished in all forms and all circumstances, federal, state, and local — absolute, no exception. Every existing death sentence is commuted by operation of law. It can’t be smuggled back in under any other name or by extrajudicial means.
The most severe punishments were applied expansively, with little principled limit on who fell under them.Check it
For the most heinous offenses, permanent secure confinement is the constitutional maximum — defined by qualifying offense, with humane conditions and a defined review, not death.
People were isolated for months or years as ordinary management — a practice that inflicts lasting psychological damage.Check it
Extended solitary is limited, and its prohibited uses are named outright. Isolation can’t be used as a routine tool or a punishment that breaks the mind.
Overcrowding, violence, and squalor were tolerated as the unspoken terms of incarceration.Check it
Enforceable minimum standards give Right 29’s continuing obligation real force — the state’s duty to treat the people it holds as human beings doesn’t end at the cell door.
People died behind bars of treatable conditions, and the barriers to suing over it were nearly insurmountable.Check it
Medical care is an affirmative obligation the government owes every person it holds. A private right of action and structural relief mean the standard can be enforced — in court, against a whole failing system if need be.
This is the plain-language version. The binding text is CS-27, which implements Right 29 of the Constitution.
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