and in the US, you can be convicted of horrendous crimes and sit in a jail cell, fed daily, get lots of recreation and excersize for 10 -20 years until you gently fall asleep with a needle prick! Many of us would love the luxury of all that expense paid to us and never have to worry about a thing....i dont think many see that as punishment....if you say you will be hanged in 60 days, THAT would scare me.....how can hanging be considered "cruel and unusual" in our eyes....for the murder of hundereds, the torture Saddam commited....hanging him in the eyes of many Americans is CRUEL??? NO!.....Is it UNUSUAL? NO! .....The constiution was written when whippings (torture) was common! it was neither cruel or unusual.....now we have changed the way we interpret it......that is not acceptable UNLESS we can vote in our state to have a true definition of cruel and unusual.....Cut off a finger of a convicted shoplifter and see how much our crime rate drops! The money we save, a safer US
2006-11-06
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