Death penalty not cruel and unusual by definition of cruel an unusual
Dr. Louis P. Pojman (a professor and philosopher with much capital punishment experience) defines cruel and unusual punishment and shows why capital punishment is neither cruel or unusual
"cruel and unusual simply means morally unjustified and unconscionable. I fail to see that death in the electric chair is either 'immoral or unconscionable.' After all the criminal has committed a heinous act of violence with malice aforethought. I would argue that the electric chair, far from being unconscionable, is completely justified. Painless lethal injection, which is the process of choice in many states, seems too good for someone who in callous disregard for his victim shed innocent blood, Hanging or the firing squad or a painful electric shock seem more fitting for most acts of murder.