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by babebridou 4733 days ago
Do you have an example of a "cruel" punishment?
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How about solitary confinement, the long term use of which is most clearly torture? This happens very commonly in the US for all manner of "disrespect of authority" in prison, usually over political matters (prison politics, not red v blue for whichever dummy was going to say that after this post).
Many punishments are cruel. Prison is cruel. So is death.