The meaning of the 8th amendment protects people. The 8th amendment states excessive bail or fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment. The bail part is the money/property that the person needs to give to the judge that will promise that the accused will return for their trial and if the person doesn't go to their trail they lose their bail. The bail also helps the person to prepare for the trial but when the person prepare he/she prepare in jail. The no cruel and unusual punishments is in the 8th amendment because they use to get a horse to pull the person until they are in 4 pieces, strangled, burned, branded, disemboweled (their guts cut out), or had their hands cut off or sat in stocks so that others could make fun of them and throw things at them. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was constitutional, and since 1976 there have been 628 inmates executed.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/eight.htm
author- Bob Houghton publishing place- Indio Middle School Desert Sands Unified School District, lastupdate- 2000
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