[Brilliant]

There is no way a death sentence can be carried out that is not "cruel" or "unusual."



That might be true in the abstract. However, we're dealing with "cruel and unsual" as that phrase is used in the Constitution. And obviously, it does not ban the death penalty because the guys who wrote the Constitution did not intend it to ban the death penalty. They had the death penalty, and they did not think that this Constitutional language changed the law. So the term "cruel and unusual" as used in the Constitution obviously means something different.

[Richard Kimball]

Part of the sophistry is that since the death penalty per se has been ruled not to be cruel and unusual, they now put an idiotic amount of inspection to the couple of minutes at death, and whether or not the victim feels pain. Jeez, give him an overdose of Quaalude and be done with it. Death sucks, and the best way in the world to die still sucks.

[IronJack]

the term "cruel and unusual" as used in the Constitution obviously means something different.

As I concluded in my post ...