Amend8C1

8C1 The Eighth Amendment


 * Essential Question: How do the issues which prompted the creation of the amendments compare with the issues they are applied to today? **

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The issues that prompted the creation of the amendments compare with the issues that are applied to today because there are still some court cases the result in cruel and unusual punishment and sometimes there are excessive bails set for the felon. One case was just a couple years ago in 2013 where "the [|Supreme Court]  heard cases involving the two most extreme punishments in the American criminal justice system: life without the possibility of parole and the death penalty." ======

It guarantees restrictions against the federal government from setting excessive bail and prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution 1.Why was the 8th amendment created?

The eighth amendment was created to protect us from unfair treatment for people accused of a crime, from cruel and unusual punishment also from excessive fines and bail.-Louis gentile

A reasonable bail for stealing a candy bar is about $100 not $10,000
2. Does the death penalty violate the eighth amendment?

The eighth amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment so the big question is whether the death penalty is a part of that... Some people say yes some people say no. It is still something that people talk about today and there is no right or wrong answer. -Louis gentile

Cruel and unusual punishment is punishment that is considered unacceptable due to suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person it is being done to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment

3. What would be cruel or unusual punishment?

Unusual punishment is punishment that causes pain or suffering to a person.-Louis gentile

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The Supreme Court says the the death penalty doesn't violate the eighth amendment. But the eighth amendment does shape certain routine characteristics regarding when a jury may choose to use the death penalty and how it must carried out. ====== https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/death_penalty

4. What was the eighth amendment designed to do?

The eighth amendment was designed to protect people from cruel and unusual punishments excessive bail and excessive fines.-Louis gentile

December 15, 1791
http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-viii

5.What is reasonable bail?

Bail is money paid by a person in exchange for getting out of jail before going to court. Bail can be denied to a person but it also cannot be excessive Bail/fines.-Louis gentile

Strangling, branding, burning, or locking someone in stocks
http://kids.laws.com/eighth-amendment

Wilkerson vs. Utah, 1878
http://badboysbailbondsutah.com/10-cases-violated-the-eighth-amendment/

Yes, it's origin comes from the Magna Carta of 1215
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/8th-amendment.html

Thomas Jefferson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

September 25, 1789
http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-viii