History Highlight -- The 8th Amendment

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[emilyleavitt]

Awesome job explaining the eighth amendment! <3

[thsNGunz]

You haven’t seen the movie “Life” with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. Blacks have been given way more cruel and unusual punishments for centuries. Maybe those cases need to be investigated and file a suit against the United States government for the crimes against humanity in these cases.

[burninglights]

Came here after the Dmca bill apparently passed

[tammyramey]

Well a lot of cops seem to misuse that, prisoners get beat or killed all the time. By cops