...And we think this equally true of the eighth amendment, in Its application to congress. • • « Punishments are cruel when they Involve torture or...something more than the mere extinguishment of life." It is true that. In both of the cases quoted from, the supreme court had before them for consideration...

...same line of unnecessary cruelty, are forbidden by that amendment to the Constitution." Punjshments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering...something more than the mere extinguishment of life. The courts of New York held that the mode adopted in this instance might be said to be unusual because...

...others in the same line of unnecessary cruelty, are forbidden by that amendment to the Constitution." Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or...something more than the mere extinguishment of life. The courts of New York held that the mode adopted in this instance might be said to be unusual because...

...application to Congress. . . . Punishments зге cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death, hut the punishment of death is not cruel, within the meaning...something more than the mere extinguishment of life." It is true that, in both of the cases quoted from, the Supreme Court had before them for consideration,...

...US Stat. at L. chap. IX, sec. ™ Ex parte Kemmler, 136 US the greatest atrocities and cruelties.24 Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or...cruel, within the meaning of that word as used in the constitution.28 § 147. Same — Same — Cumulative penalties imposed on habitual criminals. — A...

...Corpus, 57, 58. Editorial note. [Cruel and unusual punishment. 35 LRA 561.] What constitutes. 188. Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death; but the punishment of ihath is not cruel, within the meaning of that word as used in the h'cderal Constitution. Re Kemmler,...

...cruel or unusual punishment;108 nor is the increase of punishment because of a prior conviction.109 Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death, but punishment of death is not cruel.110 The provision against excessive fines finds its forerunner in...

...ed.), § 3405." That passage was quoted in In re Kemmler, 136 US 436, 447, and this comment was made: "Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or...It implies there something inhuman and barbarous, and something more than the mere extinguishment of life." The case was an application for habeas corpus...

...the meaning of the Constitution. — In In re Kemmler, supra, Fuller, Chief Justice, said (p. 447) : "The punishment of death is not cruel within the meaning...something more than the mere extinguishment of life. Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death." In Pervear v. The Commonwealth,28...

...sec. 3405" — and from in Re Kemmler (1880) 136 US 436, 34 L. Ed. 519, where this comment was made: "Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or...It implies there something inhuman and barbarous, and something more than the mere extinguishment of life." The Justice then contends for a liberal construction...