Amendment 8

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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This amendment is pretty self explanatory, it guarantees you that the government can not set excessive bail, because people who can not get out of prison have a harder time getting together a defense for themselves. It also guarantees you that no cruel and unusual punishment would be set forth, which could be interpreted in anyway from the conditions of the jail to the death penalty.
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10/26/2009



Thoughts:
I think that no body should be able to play God. Deciding who lives and who dies, is playing God. I also think that the death penalty is "cruel and unusually punishment"
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10/26/2009



Thoughts:
The electric chair is one way of execution the government use to use when a inmate was given the death penalty. This is extremely cruel, and should never have been allowed. The electric chair is very much a "cruel and unusual punishment" and outlawed by the 8th amendment.
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