Whipple v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that cruel and unusual does not refer to prison sentences as a mode of punishment but only to “such punishments as amount to torture” such as “drawing and quartering” or “burning him at the stake”
• holding that cruel and unusual does not refer to prison sentences as a mode of punishment but only to \such punishments as amount to torture\ such as \drawing and quartering\ or \burning him at the stake\
• holding that cruel and unusual does not refer to prison sentences as a mode of punishment but only to ―such punishments as amount to torture‖ such as ―drawing and quartering‖ or ―burning him at the stake‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).