• We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Length: 48 mins
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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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  • The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the People: the Eighth Amendment, the death penalty, and what cruel and unusual really means.

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