• laserm@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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

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      13 days ago

      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.