CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield May 23, 2014 16:46:00
Because you and i are very spirited. >> yes, we are. >> there's an eighth amendment against cruel and unusual punishment and the electric chair. i will just read from the associate justice william brennan of the united states supreme court about what the electric chair does. read along with me if you dare. the prisoner's eyeballs sometimes pop out and rest on his cheeks. the prisoner often dedicates, urinates and vomits blood and drool. the body turns bright red as its temperature rises and the prisoner's flesh swells and his skin stretches to the point of breaking. i must stop there. the just...
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