[Sherman Logan]

We do not and HAVE not punished criminals in "cruel and unusual" ways in the US.

Not as part of the legal system, not since we became a separate nation.

People were tortured to death in the old colonial days. And during lynchings as recently as the last century.

[TChris]

People were tortured to death in the old colonial days. And during lynchings as recently as the last century.

True, but not our government, since the Constitution.