Read the passage.Many people have appealed to the Supreme Court after being sentenced to death. So far, the Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty does not violate people’s constitutional rights.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The passage’s claim that the death penalty does not violate constitutional rights relates to whether it counts as cruel punishment, so the correct choice is “cruel” (Eighth Amendment).

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