CNN Piers Morgan Tonight July 22, 2012
unusual punishments. i fully accept that those things have to a play to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time. what i insist upon however is as to the phenomena that existed, their meaning then is the same as their meaning now. for example, the death penalty. some of my colleague who is are not originalists at least believe that it's somehow up to the court to decide whether the death penalty remains constitutional or not. that's not a question for me. it's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may mean with regard to future things such as death by inject...