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The 8th Amendment is important because it protects the individual from excessive bail or fines, and from "cruel and unusual punishments."

The "cruel and unusual punishments" clause has been the most important and the most widely debated. The court has ruled that punishments involving lingering deaths (such as quartering and burning at the stake) are banned by this amendment, but not other forms of capital punishment.

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