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To: Veto!

The constitution prohibits cruel and unsusual punishment.
It does not guarantee a painless execution.


10 posted on 04/03/2014 5:50:50 PM PDT by umgud
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To: umgud
The key word is "and." It's not cruel, "or" unusual. We just need to make cruel punishments, "usual" in cases like this.

I vote for "castration by mallet," followed by "burned at the stake."

19 posted on 04/03/2014 5:58:30 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why are cops ROE more lenient against us, here in the US, than U.S. military's ROE's in a war zone?)
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To: umgud

“The constitution prohibits cruel and unsusual punishment.”

While true, please define for me, “cruel and unusual”. Has the Supreme Court defined that phrase?


42 posted on 04/03/2014 6:26:01 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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