The histories of Cruel and Unusual Punishment have been around for as long as humans have walked the earth. Even though there are many types of cruel and unusual punishment such as torture, solitary, death penalty, excessive bail, and coerced confessions. One of our histories cruel and unusual punishments was by Captain George Kendall when he was found guilty of being Spaniard spy and was executed in 1608 in Jamestown Virginia. The Cruel and Unusual Punishment provide that our government may not inflict cruel and unusual punishment upon individuals. In back-to-back cases, Ewing v. California in 2003 and Lockyer v. Andrade in 2003, during the case, had to advocate Justice Kennedy's explanation of the Eighth Amendment, but held that the life sentence in California's three-strike law did not offend the principle of proportionality. In 1972, many states studied their death penalty laws consistent with the Furman ruling which contains to anyone who committed the crime.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment has four primary …show more content…
The Supreme Court addressed this in Hudson v McMillian where an inmate was beaten by prison guard. The main reason why this was an issue in that case was that the prisoner had an injury but the court did not see that he was hurt .The outcome of the Hudson v McMillian was that Hudson, who was an inmate, had minor bruises from the prison guard who beat the heck out of the inmate. These two testified in court where the prisoner was not guilty when he should have been guilty knowing that the prison guard beat him up while he was handcuff. In Wilson v Seiter in 1991, the court denied another prisoner inmate who was subjected to rat-infested and swarming conditions at Ohio prison. The court over ruled this case by saying that the inmates are using general condition of their area to assert their eight
Cruel and Unusual Punishment has four primary …show more content…
The Supreme Court addressed this in Hudson v McMillian where an inmate was beaten by prison guard. The main reason why this was an issue in that case was that the prisoner had an injury but the court did not see that he was hurt .The outcome of the Hudson v McMillian was that Hudson, who was an inmate, had minor bruises from the prison guard who beat the heck out of the inmate. These two testified in court where the prisoner was not guilty when he should have been guilty knowing that the prison guard beat him up while he was handcuff. In Wilson v Seiter in 1991, the court denied another prisoner inmate who was subjected to rat-infested and swarming conditions at Ohio prison. The court over ruled this case by saying that the inmates are using general condition of their area to assert their eight