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Glossip v. Gross
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Is the Death Penalty Arbitrarily Designed to Inflict Pain?
Clarence Thomas says the 8th amendment only prohibits methods of execution that are deliberately designed to inflict pain. He rejects the enlightenment This is a dude whose entire political philosophy stems from the rejection of the enlightenment You don't like the enlightenment fucking idiot all right We'll see what he thinks when we got Ginny on the gallows in a few months So he says that but this is otherwise a pretty depraved concurrence where he says he's responding to the claims that the death penalty is arbitrary That it's not administered in ways that are fair and consistent and reliableThomas says arbitrariness is not the court's concern not a concern of the Constitution.
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