Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines
and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment of the
United States Constitution if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusively?

Does the Fourteenth Amendment require states to consider substantive and procedural due process protections when imposing
statutory
fines and
state
penalties?

Does the Texas Supreme Court's "shocking the senses
of mankind" standard for considering the constitutionality of statutory fines and penalties without regard to
proportionality violate the Eighth and Fourteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution?

Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusively?