This week, Radiolab's More Perfect series examines the constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, exploring how courts have grappled with defining those terms across centuries of American law. The episode traces the tension between evolving standards of decency and the challenge of enforcing limits on state power through a document written long before modern forms of punishment existed.
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