8th Amendment
Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VII) to the American constitution is part of the American Bill of Rights which was ratified in 1789. The Amendment was to prohibit the States government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment. The Eighth Amendment was adopted in 1971 as part of the Bill of Rights in the United States where the parliament declared "as their ancestors in like cases have usually done...that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Harper, 2007)." In summary, the paper will discuss the Eighth Amendment (Amendment VII) to the American constitution as well as what and how it is controversial.
According to the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment prohibits some penalties and bars punishments which tend to be excessive when compared to crime or any other competence of criminals. The Eight Amendments states that "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." For instance, in 1947, the Supreme Court expected that, the case of Francis v. Resweber to the States through the due process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1962, the court had another case involving Robinson v. California, of which they ruled out to be applying to fourteenth Amendments of the United States. Under...
Contrary, harsh and rare punishments have been imposed under state laws in this union upon inhabitants, not only for offences committed, but for the sacred duties one does, for which the State provided no solution. It is also on record that, Justice Brennan expected no state rule pass a law clearly violating any of these principles, and so the court's decision on the 8th amendment could include accumulative analysis of each of the four principles and so the United States Supreme court said that punishment will…
