{"id":7576,"date":"2016-06-03T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/?page_id=7576"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:16:27","slug":"cruel-and-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2016\/06\/03\/cruel-and-unusual\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel and Unusual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"header_block\">Radiolabs presents the inaugural episode of their More Perfect podcast, exploring three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: \u201ccruel and unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"header_block\">First up is Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve\u2019s Death Penalty Team, talking about her search for \u2018Dream Pharma\u2019 and the supplies of lethal injection drugs flowing into the US from the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/radiolabmoreperfect\/#file=\/audio\/json\/624321\/&amp;share=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"130\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the More Perfect podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the inaugural episode of More Perfect, we explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: \u201ccruel and unusual.\u201d America has long wrestled with this concept in the context of our strongest punishment, the death penalty. A majority of \u201cwe the people\u201d (61 percent, to be exact) are in favor of having it, but inside the Supreme Court, opinions have evolved over time in surprising ways.<\/p>\n<p>And outside of the court, the debate drove one woman in the UK to take on the U.S. death penalty system from Europe. It also caused states to resuscitate old methods used for executing prisoners on death row. And perhaps more than anything, it forced a conversation on what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n<h2>Support Reprieve and Maya&#8217;s work<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.bsd.net\/page\/contribute\/donation-doubled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Radiolab-donate-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Maya Radiolab donate\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; text-align: center; border: 4px solid #e35e14; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Double your donation, double your impact.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Right now all donations to Reprieve will be doubled and make twice the impact on our work. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn button\" href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.bsd.net\/page\/contribute\/donation-doubled\">Donate Now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiolabs presents the inaugural episode of their More Perfect podcast, exploring three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: \u201ccruel and unusual.\u201d First up is Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve\u2019s Death Penalty Team, talking about her search for \u2018Dream Pharma\u2019 and the supplies of lethal injection drugs flowing into the US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2016\/06\/03\/cruel-and-unusual\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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