Man who peed on Alamo outrageously given only 18 months in jail

[Frodo]

Community service, an education in Texas history, and apologizing on live-television to the descendants of all those (Texan as well as Mexican) who fought and died at the Alamo would have done a lot more good. 

[Frodo]

Community service, an education in Texas history, and apologizing on live-television to the descendants of all those (Texan as well as Mexican) who fought and died at the Alamo would have done a lot more good. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  I'm not following.  How is that 'cruel' and 'unusual'?   

[Frodo]

Community service, an education in Texas history, and apologizing on live-television to the descendants of all those (Texan as well as Mexican) who fought and died at the Alamo would have done a lot more good. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  I'm not following.  How is that 'cruel' and 'unusual'?   

That's clearly unusual. Never a judge did condemn someone to do that.

Didn't a judge recently condemn a man to do something similar after harassing a family over a period of fifteen years?  Two different mediums, but both involve public humiliation.