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To: PeterPrinciple

from the constitution no cruel and unusual punishment why should we make it more painless when there are less painless ways to kill.


15 posted on 02/06/2024 3:51:09 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: coalminersson

from the constitution no cruel and unusual punishment


https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/amendment-viii/clauses/103

” Largely as a result of these objections, the Constitution was amended to prohibit cruel and unusual punishments.

As these debates demonstrate, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause clearly prohibits “barbaric” methods of punishment. If the federal government tried to bring back the rack, or thumbscrews, or gibbets as instruments of punishment, such efforts would pretty clearly violate the Eighth Amendment.


The ORIGINAL perspective of cruel and unusual.


19 posted on 02/06/2024 4:00:13 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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