“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Courts are not allowed to assign an accused person an excessive amount of money for a fine or bail, and punishments must be fair and not inhumane.
Texas is first in the number of executions carried out in the United States since 1976. The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is not a violation of the 8th Amendment. But even if the death penalty is considered humane to some, there is no denying that it is more expensive than life imprisonment, wrongly executes innocent people, and has not been shown to effectively deter crime.
Nowadays even some prison inmates have access to social media, and some can even stay in touch with their families at home. People are good at finding a way to keep up with what's going on on the internet. At this point, most people (myself included) would feel tortured without internet access. I think this cartoon is funny because being kept in a completely empty room is cruel and unusual enough, even if I had my phone with me.
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