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This picture is demonstarting the many ways that the 8th amendment can help protect 

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The 8th amendment was to protect anyone from the govermnet to prevent them from getting a cruel or excessive punishment if the crime doesnt equal it. The 8th amendment can also help people with many things. There have been a lot of cases where the 8th amendmnet helped people not get the death penalty.

The 8th amendment helped a lot of people because he portected them against the court if the court didnt either like the person or rasicm came in. Most courts really gave a lot of people the death penalty in the 1600s or somewhere between that and the 8th amendment really helped them.

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This image is explaining the 8th amendment and this image can also be shown in a lot of projects 

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A prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment" first appeared in the English Bill of Rights, in 1689. The ban was adopted by American colonists in some colonial legislation, and was also included in most of the original state constitutions.

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This is James madison. He was the guy who created the 8th amendment and was one of the president 

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James madison made the 8th amendment to prevent the government from excessively punishing defendants and criminals before and after trial

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This case really impacted the state of Georgia and Georgia was also known as this case for a while.

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This case was very important because the court held that the death penalty was a "grossly disproportionate" punishment for the crime of rape.

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the eighth amendment is so that whenever anyone who did something wrong and would get a bad punishment the eighth amendment is to protect them.