[Freedom4US]

As usual, "cruel and unusual" has been twisted beyond all recognition.

Clearly our death penalty is far more peaceful than anything the convicted meted out to their victims. Do these fine upstanding citizens typically provide a last meal to the soon-to-be murdered? Civilization isn't the default mode for this globe, it really bothers me that society has to reinvent the wheel periodically. I don't relish the idea of jails, capital punishment or anything of the sort.

[Huck]

Hang me, oh, hang me, so I’ll be dead and gone.
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I’ll be dead and gone.
I wouldn’t mind your hangin’, boys but you wait in jail so long.
Lord lord, I been all around this world.


--Trad. arrangement, Grateful Dead

[breakem]

Cruel and unusual now means, hey there may be a problem with that.

I'm going to file a lawsuit to expedite the death penalty since regular delays are also cruel and unusual.

[expatpat]

I think it's cruel and unusual punishment to bring a guy up to within 20 mins of his death, and then say: "No, we'll go through it agian another day." Reminds me of a capured scottish rebel that the English hanged at each major town down the road, cutting him down jsut before he pegged out, so they could repeat it at the next town.