如果你能暂时将你对人体刑罚的看法放下，考虑下对罚与罪之间平衡的影响。

If you can put aside your opinions about corporal punishment for just a moment, consider the impact of the balance between the punishment and the crime.

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然而，由于凯姆勒的案件违背第八修正案对酷刑和罕有刑罚的限制，凯姆勒提出上诉，处决被推迟。

The execution was delayed while Kemmler's case was appealed on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment restriction against cruel and unusual punishment.

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此次法院当真认为对精神发育迟滞的人施用死刑的确违反了第八修正案禁止残酷刑罚的规定。

And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.

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These were real ways that people were executed-- stakes, massacres, and this sort of business.

这些都是真实发生过的刑罚方式,火刑,屠戮,等等之类的

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Some few people who had sinned terribly and earned the wrath of the gods would, indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek, interesting way. You remember Tantalus.

一些罪孽深重,触怒神灵的人,的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚,这很有意思,你们记得坦塔罗斯

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