Is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole cruel and unusual?

[minionofmidas]

Rightly listed in the Carolina among methods of execution.

[minionofmidas]

Father Zossima advocated excommunication from the Church as a punishment for criminals.

Father Zosima is a fantastic character, but it's hard to make that work the way it's supposed to in an almost entirely secularized society.

We force criminals to join a church?

[minionofmidas]

imprisonment itself is cruel and unusual.

life itself is often cruel and unusual.