The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Meghan J. Ryan
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book provides a theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.
Cruel & Unusual
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: John D. Bessler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: UPNE

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This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalt
No Cruel or Unusual Punishment
Language: en
Pages: 32
Authors: David Machajewski
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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When the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, it had a major flaw: it failed to acknowledge individual rights. Early Americans were not pleased. They didn't
The Story of Cruel and Unusual
Language: en
Pages: 122
Authors: Colin Dayan
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-16 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of t
The Eighth Amendment
Language: en
Pages: 66
Authors: Greg Roza
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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This book is an introduction to the Eighth Amendment which empowers the people as it guarantees protection of basic rights of citizens accused of a crime.