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[-] laserm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm struggling to find an interpretation under which artificially extending the psychologically feelable length of the punishment of a prisoner is not unusual. Fortunately, it's not likely to come into effect. Still, the cruelty is astounding

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

One might argue that because we already sentence people for hundreds of years for things that actually causing them to serve those sentences rather than dying is not unusual.

I still think it's unusua, myself. Using substances to elicit pain is not typical.

[-] laserm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Sentences are meant to signal for how long can the Government deprive an individual of their liberty, it under no circumstances allows the Government to torture a prisoner with psychoactive drugs. It's specifies actual, real time, not how the prisoner perciceves it. Under the same logic, the prisoner could use the idiomatic expressions 'it's been a lifetime' to claim his life sentence is served.

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