Eight Amendment Pros And Cons

The famous Founding Fathers of the United States created a few documents to protect the citizens of this fair country. These documents included the Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights. The latter, the Bill of Rights, is one that protects the citizens rights against infractions; one amendment that I feel is very important is the Eighth Amendment. That amendment protects the citizens against cruel or unusual punishments for breaking the law. When analyzing the different rights that the Eighth Amendment protects one must also look at all the aspects of the law including: the history of the law, the modern uses and abuses of the law, and the laws current effectiveness. The first aspect to deduce when looking at this amendment is the
With the eighth this is sometimes hard to see because the people who commit crimes against this must do it in secret. However there have been some cases where the law is broken and there is no way for those being tortured or any witnesses to report it. This was the case in a jail in Oregon where the inmates would seriously injure and even kill each other and the officials and guards in the jail would do nothing about it. In other words, they were using the inmates as a form of torture against the inmates being killed. In other cases legal organizations like the C.I.A. are able to torture suspects and cover it by saying they’re interrogating the suspects. This the case with two psychologists; the C.I.A. was not physically torturing the suspect however they were psychologically torturing him by tricking his mind into thinking he was drowning by pouring water over his covered face and making him plead for his life. “Drs. Mitchell and Jessen were sent to the jail to carry out the techniques, including waterboarding. Water was poured over a cloth covering Abu Zubaydah face to simulate drowning.” (Fink and Risen 1). As displayed, it is not only outlaws who break the