I really fucking hate the interpretation that it means it only prohibits punishments that are both cruel and unusual. I could easily see someone making the (bullshit) argument that 1,000 year sentences are not unusual. Many “life” sentences are technically hundreds of years.
I’m struggling to find an interpretation under which artificially extending the psychologically feelable length of the punishment of a prisoner is not unusual. Fortunately, it’s not likely to come into effect. Still, the cruelty is astounding
One might argue that because we already sentence people for hundreds of years for things that actually causing them to serve those sentences rather than dying is not unusual.
I still think it’s unusua, myself. Using substances to elicit pain is not typical.
I really fucking hate the interpretation that it means it only prohibits punishments that are both cruel and unusual. I could easily see someone making the (bullshit) argument that 1,000 year sentences are not unusual. Many “life” sentences are technically hundreds of years.
Black Mirror-ass punishments.
I’m struggling to find an interpretation under which artificially extending the psychologically feelable length of the punishment of a prisoner is not unusual. Fortunately, it’s not likely to come into effect. Still, the cruelty is astounding
One might argue that because we already sentence people for hundreds of years for things that actually causing them to serve those sentences rather than dying is not unusual.
I still think it’s unusua, myself. Using substances to elicit pain is not typical.