There should be exceptions to the 8th amendment.
Agreed.
My idea has always been, make the punishment so common, so ordinary and everyday that it is no longer “unusual.”
Great scene which didn’t end in torture, sadly for me, in the Boston Marathon movie “Patriot’s Day” with Mark Wahlberg, had the hijab wearing sullen and selfish Muslim wife of the bomber being held for questioning as minutes counted in finding more bombs and people who would be new victims (such as a police officer in his parked patrol car who would be ambushed soon after).
Word from either the FBI or CIA went out to police: “Do NOT Mirandize her.”)
American agent (woman who wore a hijab and spoke Arabic to the suspect) demanded “Are there more bombs?”
Muslim: “I won’t tell the infidels anything. I want a lawyer. I have rights here.”
Interrogator: “You don’t have s@#t.”
Sadly, they didn’t torture her and save lives. The coda of the film said authorities couldn’t prove her crimes in court and she is still not in prison.
Later the two Tzarnaev brothers threw lit pipe bombs that exploded three police cars with officers nearby shooting and
carjacked a Chinese college student they held at gunpoint and forced him to give his ATM PIN number. Student later pushed the car door open and ran away before they shot him.