This is the final amendment in the Bill of Rights to directly relate to how the judicial system needs to treat criminals. The eighth amendment helps to guarantee criminal rights and prevents the justice system from putting down huge bails on misdemeanors and small time criminals. It also protects against extreme punishment.
This cartoon does a good job of showing what the eighth amendment was designed to prevent. Torture can be synonymous with cruel and unusual punishment and while torture itself is strictly against the law, people still resort to manipulation and discrete tactics to acquire information from other people. They bend, twist, and distort the truth, as it were.
In this comic strip the judge is seen sentencing a George Bush look-alike with an excessive amount of bail money and a ridiculously long sentence, all for the crime of thievery.
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