Law School for Everyone
Season 1
Ep 18. Cruel and Unusual Punishments
- TV-PG
- September 22, 2017
- 34 min
Pore over the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause of the Eighth Amendment in search of why the Supreme Court has had so much trouble applying this provision to real-world criminal cases. By the end of this lecture, you'll realize why the Eighth Amendment is considered by some legal experts to be a constitutional enigma.