[Sarah Michelle Gellar](http://glamour.com/about/sarah-michelle-gellar) and [Roma Downey](http://glamour.com/about/roma-downey) played kid/adult Jackie respectively in the Emmy-winning miniseries *A Woman Named Jackie*.
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture.he Supreme Court found these laws to be unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, in the murder case of Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280 (1976), because these laws remove discretion from the trial judge to make an individualized determination in each case.
Confining juveniles with adults violates the Eighth Amendmentâs prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Juveniles, recognized by the Supreme Court as being developmentally different from adults and having diminished culpability, face grave dangers when confined with adults in prisons and jails. In Roper v. Simmons, Graham v.