It is certainly constitutional. Indeed, it is one a few punishments expressly mentioned there.
I cringe at the lackof Undo, if you discover later, "Whoops!" The evidence must be pretty overwhelming. Our legal system has made a wrongful conviction pretty near impossible in a way that life imprisonment does not. This execution in South Carolina seems to not have much doubt.
My current research project has led me to read some pretty awful news articles. One from 1967 involved parents charged with poisioning their seven children with parathion, an insecticide of the nerve agent family. The sheriff was investigating the suspicious death of the father's six previous children. Yes, he had life insurance on them. Some monsters are so horrible that letting them live seems hard to justify.
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