Capital Punishment
Some people feel that capital punishment is inherently cruel and unusual punishment.
For most of recorded history, capital punishments were often deliberately painful. Severe historical penalties include the breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, scaphism, or necklacing.
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“I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
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