8th Amendment Reflection

In this weeks module I learned about the eighth amendment and what it entails in this country. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. That being said the founding fathers set this right into the Bill of Rights because of the cruel punishments the king of England had set in place in Great Britain. To live back then was crazy. The king could sentence you to execution without even getting a trial by your peers. What made it even more crazy was how he had all the power in the land so what he said went. Nobody argued his calls unless you wanted to end up like the person before him. It is a good thing the founding fathers
Excessive bail is when they place a bail on you to have you come to trial if they are to let you go back out. For example, if someone was to commit a crime and let us say that crime was armed robbery they could can keep them in jail until their trial is to take place unless a bail is set in place. With bail the judge can determine the amount that need to be paid for the severity of the crime. If they are seemed fit to be put out again then they will set a bail but if not they can not set bail for the safety of the public. This would be in my opinion a serial killer. One thing is that when they set bail cannot be excessive and must be payable by the opposition. Depending the severity of the crime and few key factors that play a role in the determination of the bail amount will affect the outcome. These factors are your age, if you have any other current charges, your criminal history, and any prior record of not appearing to court.All of these will be taken into consideration for determining your bail but, I know for murder bail will most likely not be set and if it is it will be around or more than one million dollars because they know you won’t appear in court if you are to be released until your