punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed

punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed

Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion, Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony, In general, the act, operation, or process of inflicting excruciating pain, physical or mental, verb_ subject to torture, torment emotionally or mentally, transitive verb_ To punish with torture; to put to the rack, To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex, To subject (a person or animal) to torture,

To go or move at a rack, transitive verb_ To torture by means of the rack, To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack, noun_ A pair of antlers, An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched, A wholesale rib cut of lamb or veal between the shoulder and the loin