Mass_Driver comments on Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 21 June 2010 03:48:19PM 0 points [-]

Sure, but it's just case law, and it's not necessarily the most popular bit of caselaw, either. If you could actually convince the public that creative sentences were desirable, you could probably get the US Supreme Court to suddenly 'discover' that cruel and unusual punishment is referring only to, e.g., "disproportionate" punishments or "outrageous treatment that shocks the conscience."