freedom from cruel and unusual punishment

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   a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about freedom from cruel and unusual punishment

What does freedom from cruel and unusual punishment mean?

freedom from cruel and unusual punishment means "a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution".

Is freedom from cruel and unusual punishment a common word?

freedom from cruel and unusual punishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.