Prohibited Punishments

Question 1

Double Jeopardy

Answer 1

punishment for the same crime (5th amendment)

Question 2

Retroactively (ex post facto)

Answer 2

cant punish someone for a crime that was not a crime when the act was committed (Article 1 Section 9 and 10 of the Constitution

Question 3

Bill of Attainders

Answer 3

A bill of attainder is a legislative act that declares someone guilty of a crime and assesses a punishment without providing a trial to prove the crime. The prohibition applies to individual people and to groups

Question 4

8th Amendment

Answer 4

A cruel and unusual punishment - only if a sentence is “grossly disproportionate to the offense will the sentence be deemed cruel and unusual.
See Ewing Case