CASE 14.3
A South Carolina inmate serving a twenty-five-year sentence for second-degree murder was recently diagnosed as HIV-positive. He had argued for years that he should be tested and believed the correctional facility did very little to accommodate this request. Given this information, answer the following questions.
-Using the argument that the correctional facility's denial of his right to be tested for HIV constituted cruel and unusual punishment, which Amendment did the inmate use as a basis for a lawsuit

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The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and the inmate argued that the denial of his right to be tested for HIV constituted such punishment.

CASE 14.3 A South Carolina Inmate Serving a Twenty-Five-Year Sentence for Second-Degree