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Originally Posted by EventHorizon
unconstitutional, defenitely. unethical, maybe not. this guy isn't being sent to time out so he can think about what he did, he is paying the price for his crime with a punishment that isn't exactly a secret.
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What I don't understand is that if intentionally taking someone's life is such an abhorrent crime why is intentionally taking someone's life a suitable punishment? Do they rape rapists or kidnap the children of kidnappers?
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i think "psychological torture" is a bit extreme to describe his situation. to me psychological torture would be putting up a tv behind plexiglass with a reenactment of his crime over and over again with the survivors of the family each recording "i hate you" and having it played on repeat for the rest of his sentence.
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Social isolation, forced nudity, 24-hour lighting is psychological torture in that these things can have serious long-term psychological consequences—this is a degrading and dehumanizing treatment that I would call cruel and unusual punishment. No individual or state has the right to inflict these things on a human being any more than they have the right to waterboard them or inflict unrelenting physical pain or agony.
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Originally Posted by EventHorizon
well i'm kind of glad that Tim McVeigh is dead. anyone else?
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I'm indifferent.