"cruel and unusual" 5

Even if the part about punishments in the eighth amendment had came in a separate amendment of its own, that would still have not made me any close to understand it to mean forcing the overriding of clear rules of justice like those mandated by the an eye for an eye principle.

I think that if the framers had such intention, they would have put more effort to state that in order to counteract the deeply rooted  sense of obligation to justice inside human beings. On the other hand as much as deeply rooted that sense of obligation to justice is, as much as it could make it hard to imagine such understanding is probable or even possible on correct grounds.  

To me it is hard to imagine it being further away from telling the government you cannot execute a killer. Instead, I see it telling the government you cannot, for example, execute someone who had failed to pay his taxes. But for the blood of another human being, how does it even occur to some here that it is imposing such a restriction on justice?

But I never really liked all the talk I see here about "love" while skipping over the question of justice.That could be behind a confusing here in seeing an intention to override justice in what is not only lacked such intention but was probably in itself intended to secure avoiding injustice and take it as being the ultimate objective in itself.