Our 8th amendment right guarantees us that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. A common argument against the 8th amendment is the interpretation of cruel and unusual punishment. I think that the death penalty is cruel and unusual yet many others don't. This isn't 800 B.C. where they punished criminals with an eye for eye like mentality, like Hammurabi did. Since we're supposed to be a righteous and moral society I think we can punish murderers and extreme rapists without having to kill them. I'd rather have someone sit in a maximum security prison with a 23 hour lock down, I feel like thats a more fitting punishment than death. Need to bail somebody out? Look at the commercial below for help.
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