Crime Quote by Chloe Neill

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or…

— Antonin Scalia

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken…

— Tom Clancy

“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause.”

— Terry Pratchett

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

— Antonin Scalia

Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.

— Michael J. Knowles

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should…

— Libba Bray

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

— Potter Stewart

“And finally, your punishment WILL be cruel and unusual (no TV or IPad for a week, etc…)”

— Jon Ziegler

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process…

— Antonin Scalia

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging…

— Richard Posner

“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece was never…

— Yanis Varoufakis