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“Punishments,” the court ruled, “are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death; but the punishment of death is not cruel within the meaning of that word as used in the Constitution. It implies there something inhuman and barbarous—something more than the mere extinguishment of life.“

“Punishments are cruel,” the Kemmler court noted, “when they involve torture or a lingering death; but the punishment of death is not cruel within the meaning of that word as used in the Constitution. It implies there is something inhuman and barbarous—something more than the mere extinguishment of life.”

Cruelty, he said "implies … something inhuman and barbarous, something more than the mere extinguishment of life."

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking over extinguishment efforts for a landfill fire in Moody, Alabama, federal officials announced Thursday.

“This constitutes torture, a possibly lingering death, and pain beyond that necessary for the mere extinguishment of death,” Judge Newman wrote.