...is prohibited to raise or keep any army in time of peace except with the consent of Parliament; that "excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"; that jurors should be duly impaneled; that fines and forfeitures...

...conditions, and as allowed by law. 8. That election of members of Parliament ought to be free. 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 1 1. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned,...

...in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned and jurors...

...Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place outside Parliament. 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. The particularisation of these rights and freedoms was a response...

...parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned,...

...penalties of a severe nature. . . . The English Bill of Rights, enacted December 16, 1689, stated that "excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." These were the words chosen for our Eighth Amendment. . ....

...similar rights and liberties of subjects by condemning abuses of those accused or convicted of crimes: "[E]xcessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted."52 Although there had been no explicit legalization of "cruel...

...proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. X. Excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted . . . XIII. For redress of all grievances and for the amending,...

...task."122 Evolving Standards of Decency and Lethal Injection Execution The Eighth Amendment states that "excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."123 The exact meaning of the words is elusive, however, and...

...significant. The committee aptly concluded Mason's article on criminal procedure by adding the phrase "that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers." The committee mildly strengthened Mason's ninth article (the eighteenth...