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04/29/08

08:20:31 pm, Categories: Videos, 415 words

Scalia: Does Torture Violate ‘Cruel And Unusual Punishment’ Provision? ‘No.’

Scalia: Does Torture Violate ‘Cruel And Unusual Punishment’ Provision? 'No.'

Last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted his first broad-based television interview, to Lesley Stahl on CBS’s 60 Minutes. There he explained that the torture of detainees does not violate the 8th Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” because, according to Scalia, torture is not used as punishment:

(Supreme Court Justice Scalia *Torture is not Punishment! The only thing needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing...)

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