Unusual Punishment Quotes

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

What constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment has not been exactly decided. It has been said that ordinarily the terms imply something inhuman and barbarous.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.