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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
are we attempting to stop suicides at Gitmo?
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2. Though, that's because I'd rather be dead than imprisoned on Cuba with no trial and no communication with the outside world at all and no way to know if I'd ever get out.
It seems like forcibly stopping people from killing themselves is cruel and unusual punishment.*
*I am not saying that the cruel and unusual punishment ban-type thingy in teh law or constitution or whatever applies to the prisoners, and I'm not saying it doesn't. It's just a useful shorthand.
