Pros And Cons Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment

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My topic is about cruel and unusual punishment. I picked this topic because I wanted to learn about cruel and unusual punishment and why people do it. The eighth amendment was started 1791 which is cruel and unusual punishment. The term cruel unusual punishment means people that committed a crime have the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment while in prison. It means if a prison did something bad the constitution still acts to guarantee his or her personal safety and not to be tortured.

Some examples of cruel and unusual punishment are extremely long prison sentences for miner sentences, branding, whipping, and public humiliation. Cruel and unusual punishment includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed. I don’t like cruel and unusual punishment like bullying, and internet bullying because people can kill themselves on being called names and the person that did it don’t even care if they killed themselves. People talk about other people because sometimes their either jealous of them, they got something they don’t, or its something in the bullies life that isn’t going well for them.

Cruel and unusual punishment can happen to any one for example animals like on some commercials about dogs being hurt, or mistreated, or not fed then they are laying dead. If people don’t want to take care of the responsibility then give the dog away no torture it to death.

The prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments is one of the most important constitutional limitations upon the penal process...

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...ro finally gets caught he is sentenced for life and he killed his self in prison by hanging himself and the girls got justice.my thing is with cruel and unusual punishment is that if you cant do the time don’t do the crime and this is 100 percent to me.

The reason for me doing cruel and unusual punishment what to tell about why people do it and and is it bad to do it because that person could have been really famous in life and they die or hurt themselves because of what somebody else did to them. This project was interesting to see the things people do in life to one another and its just sad that our society is like this. I will never do cruel things to anyone or punish someone for doing something to me ill either ignore them or just try to forgive them for what they done. You will never know if someone has an anger problem or anything going on in their life.

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