Tom Clancy Quote

Back then "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary America — but in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.


Executive Orders (1996), p. 613.


Back then cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary...

Back then cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary...

Back then cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary...

Back then cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary...