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EIGHTH AMENDMENT
FURTHER GUARANTEES IN CRIMINAL CASES
CONTENTS
- Excessive Bail
- Excessive Fines
- Cruel and Unusual Punishments
- Style of Interpretation
- Application and Scope
- Capital Punishment
- General Validity and Guiding Principles
- Implementation of Procedural Requirements
- Limitations on Capital Punishment: Proportionality
- Limitations on Capital Punishment: Diminished Capacity
- Limitations on Capital Punishment: Equality of Application
- Limitations on Habeas Corpus Review of Capital Sentences
- Proportionality
- Prisons and Punishment
- Limitation of the Clause to Criminal Punishments