The Eighth Amendment's Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishment Was

The Eighth Amendment's protection from cruel and unusual punishment was incorporated as a result of

A) the ratification of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
B) a 1964 Supreme Court decision about Illinois police officers' denial of a suspect's request to see his lawyer during interrogation.
C) a 1962 Supreme Court decision about California's 90-day sentence for people found guilty of "addiction to the use of narcotics."
D) a 1969 Supreme Court decision about an individual tried twice in the state of Maryland for the same crime of larceny.

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