The 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment should not have been interpreted to mean that executions must be painless and without suffering
By Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 30, 2014
It is indeed a bizarre ethical dilemma our courts have placed upon the State—that the term “cruel and unusual punishment” should be interpreted as “painless and without suffering.” How flippantly unconscionable is it to consider for one moment that a condemned man’s brief suffering in execution—someone who brutally murdered another human being—should take precedent over the life he unlawfully ended. Botched is in the eye of the beholder—the condemned man is dead and that sounds like a completed sentence.
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