If passed into law, you will see these words used in their most liberal sense.
Imprisonment SHOULD be degrading and cruel.
Right on. It gets down to definitions. To a pusillanimous liberal slapping a person in the face would be torture. I'd like to ask Hillary Clinton a simple question. Would you authorize pulling a fingernail off a would be terrorist if it would save the lives of everyone in New York? As a loony liberal lemming of the licentious left she'd have to examine the metaphysical subleties of the question for about a week before arriving at a conclusion. Has McCain gone mad?