Slow starvation in conjunction with dehydration is cruel and unusual.
Do you think the Supreme Court would recognize that evolving standard? /sad sarcasm.
And what sad commentary that we're only now coming to recognize this. Well, some of us already knew that so I suppose we need to take comfort in the progress.
“Slow starvation in conjunction with dehydration is cruel and unusual.”
It is if you’re not dying. There does come a time in the dying process that food and water are no longer desirable. With the bodily processes shutting down of their own accord, food and water isn’t wanted.
I extremely glad this law has been passed and that this soldier was kept from an untimely death due to apparently greed and stupidity.