DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Some people think that the death penalty is by definition "Cruel and Unusual" and thereby constitutionally proscribed, I get that, don't agree, but I see their point.
Some folks go to great extents to address what the founding fathers intended when they wrote the constitution, well enough.
The modern day do-gooders that use the Cruel and Unusual fail to realize is that at the time the constitution was written the punishments handed out by the overlords and masters of the known universe at the time were indeed cruel and unusual. Drawing and quartering, the rack, iron maiden, burning at the stake all come to mind. Those are the punishments that the forefathers had in mind when they specified cruel and unusual. Chemical poisoning through anesthetics had never been thought of at the time. Hanging is fast and relatively painless since mankind has had a few centuries to make it scientific. The modern electric chair is also pretty fast.
I don't see any of these as cruel and unusual. Even though there is nothing in the constitution about punishment inflicted on a criminal matching that that was perpetrated on their victims what our death penalty does still comes nowhere close.