Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
The 8th Amendment guarantees that punishments will be fair, and not cruel. It is also guaranteed that extraordinarily large fines will not be set.
This is a short video showing us how lucky we are to have the eighth amendment and a couple terrible things that could happen to us if we did not have the eighth amendment.
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