AMENDMENT EIGHT

AMENDMENT EIGHT

• Talks about preventing cruel and unusual punishments and excessive bail.
• Cruel unusual punishment means a punishment that is to severe.
• Excessive bail is an amount that is to high, given the circumstances.

Summary
The eight amendment has long been considered the most poorly defined of the amendments in the Bill of Rights because for more than two hundred years Americans have struggled to interpret and clarify the meanings of the phrases "cruel and unusual" "excessive bail", and "excessive fines".

Disadvantages
Traitors were tied to wooden posts, after being hanged until they were nearly dead, they were cut down, mutilated, beheaded, and their bodies were quartered. This happened to both men and women.

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